My intent is each night, at 10 pm mountain time, to list the deaths of the day and the weapons that caused them.
How many violent deaths each day in the US are caused by guns, how many by knives, how many by vehicles used as weapons, how many by trucks loaded with fertilizer?
Info will be from a Google search.
Saturday, August 31, 2019
Guns - 5 dead, 21 injured in west Texas shooting (2 shooters in 2 separate vehicles); 10 people shot by 17-year-old male at high school football game in Alabama. 1 dead, 4 wounded in Charlotte, NC.
Knives - None found for US. In England, 2 people knifed in robberies within hours of each other.
Cars as Weapons - None found
Trucks loaded with fertilizer and used as bomb - None found
I actually got the idea from a few posts from folks who say that a truck full of fertilizer killed more people than gun violence in a year, as if that were equivalent, or maunder on about how knives are just as deadly as guns…
Hopefully I won’t have any deaths to report during September.
Are you telling me there were NO fatal accidents today that were caused by the driver being under the influence of illegal drugs or alcohol anyplace in the United States today? Because if you get behind the wheel impared . . . your vehicle has become a weapon.
How many people are killed each day when someone chooses to get behind the wheel of a vehicle impaired. They make a concious choice just like a shooter chooses to use a gun.
So how many people were killed today by impared drivers? Without that your statistics are worthless.
So your saying the dead shooter in Texas got in his car with the intent of . .
A) shooting a cop behind him.
B) after shooting a cop was going on a rampage
C) after starting the rampage hijack a truck
d) after hijacking a truck continue the rampage.
This is only ONE of dozens that came up in a good search:
Three people onboard the Ford Focus were taken to Western Arizona Medical Center in Bullhead City. One of those passengers, a 73-year-old male died as a result of his injuries.
The driver of the Mercedes Benz was arrested on suspicion of DUI, he sustained no injuries as a result of the crash.
If this man was impaired as they believe, here is just ONE story from today where a person with intent became impared and chose to drove and it ended in one death and 2 injuries.
So we need to ad 1 death to the stats up in the op for cars being used to kill people (and add 2 injuries.
When you drink and drive and kill someone it’s NOT an accident. It’s a choice the driver made. Just like the dead gunman chose his weapn – a gun. The DUI driver chose a vehicle as their weapon.
