Study: Americans far more likely to suffer violent deaths than people in other countries
The United States has about six violent deaths per 100,000 residents. None of the 16 other countries included in the review came anywhere close to that ratio. Finland was closest to the U.S. ranking with slightly more than two violent deaths per 100,000 residents.
For many years, Americans have been dying at younger ages than people in almost all other wealthy countries. In addition to the impact of gun violence, Americans consume the most calories among peer countries and get involved in more accidents that involve alcohol. The U.S. also suffers higher rates of drug-related deaths, infant mortality and AIDS.
The result is that the life expectancy for men in the United States ranked the lowest among the 17 countries reviewed, at 75.6 years, while the life expectancy for U.S. women ranked second lowest at 80.7 years. The countries reviewed included Canada, Japan, Australia and much of Western Europe.
The nation’s health disadvantages have economic consequences. They lead to higher costs for consumers and taxpayers as well as a workforce that remains less healthy than that of other high-income countries.
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They’ve got some gonads crafting a study that can’t be refuted without incurring charges of racism.
HitNRun on January 10, 2013 at 9:24 PM
Mostly thanks to bastions of liberalism, like Chicago for gun violence, welfare and carb subsidies (poor people are much more likely to be obese than non-poor people), and liberal promotion of hedonistic lifestyles that lead to depression and disease.
Thanks, liberals!
JohnJ on January 10, 2013 at 9:25 PM
This is an Ass. Press article…they are a subversive organization.
d1carter on January 10, 2013 at 9:28 PM
Why be concerned about infant mortality – it’s only a very late abortion, after all.
OldEnglish on January 10, 2013 at 9:28 PM
Who did the study?
Dr. David Gregory, Ph.D
Dack Thrombosis on January 10, 2013 at 9:30 PM
Give me liberty or give me death.
NotCoach on January 10, 2013 at 9:30 PM
Indeed! Compare American rates to African.
OldEnglish on January 10, 2013 at 9:30 PM
Put north St. Louis in any other country.
No, seriously. Please do.
tom daschle concerned on January 10, 2013 at 9:33 PM
Instead of attacking the study, propose solutions!
People should be armed and trained to defend themselves.
We should end farm subsidies.
We should also stop subsidizing bad lifestyle decisions.
That’s the way to win this argument.
JohnJ on January 10, 2013 at 9:37 PM
We’re #1! We’re #1! We’re #1! Suck that Finland!
Flange on January 10, 2013 at 9:38 PM
It’s amazing that they somehow failed to mention car wrecks anywhere in that paragraph.
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http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/acc-inj.htm
That’s interesting. CDC again:
So HIV-AIDS is directly responsible for matching 80% of the annual number of firearms deaths, but there is no looming executive order banning (ahem) particulars in hopes of saving even just 10% of those precious lives? Why not? Aren’t they worth as much as other citizens?
(do I really need the / ?)
rogerb on January 10, 2013 at 9:42 PM
That’s right, in Britain, you’ll be killed by your healtcare provider before the local hoodlums get a chance to crack you in the skull for your spare change
phreshone on January 10, 2013 at 9:43 PM
Coincidence, I just don’t know. It’s from NBC.
arnold ziffel on January 10, 2013 at 9:43 PM
Wow, that’s a depressing article. We really suck.
…….. yet everyone wants to live HERE.
fogw on January 10, 2013 at 9:44 PM
Would be nice except we wouldn’t want to sound judgmental. Heaven forbid a republican maybe bring these topics up.
arnold ziffel on January 10, 2013 at 9:46 PM
Yeah, lets see the raw numbers and definitions worked over by someone more reputable by NBC and their sources.
Crime reporting varies widely by country and I’m only talking about stats.
CorporatePiggy on January 10, 2013 at 9:48 PM
They don’t link to the study to actually LIST all the countries involved or how ‘selective’ they were.
You will very likely they are very much homogenous societies, unlike ours.
michaelo on January 10, 2013 at 9:48 PM
Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
davidk on January 10, 2013 at 9:50 PM
95%+ of the murders in Cincinnati are black on black. There are nations, and cultures, and there are subcultures. Consider education stats in this light too. Am I being a racist yet.
Paul-Cincy on January 10, 2013 at 10:06 PM
More people were slaughtered in Rwanda via machete in two years than by gun in the USA in 20 years.
LegendHasIt on January 10, 2013 at 10:10 PM
Legend, it was in 100 DAYS in Rwanda. One of the survivors is a dear friend, who saw her parents dismembered before her at an age of 8.
They DON”T list the countries, because there is one ‘outlier’ country that would screw up the study. Great Britain that has a VERY high violence incidence- WITH heavy gun control.
michaelo on January 10, 2013 at 10:15 PM
it’s all bullsh*t…dubious cherry picked stats massaged heavily by AP & NBC = bullsh*t…..
Tim Zank on January 10, 2013 at 10:16 PM
It’s a good thing that there is a standard measurement for infant mortality. Oh, no, wait, there isn’t. In most other “developed” countries, the premature babies we try and save are just left to die and are not counted.
strictnein on January 10, 2013 at 10:26 PM
Also, I’m sure they adjusted for the fact that Americans drive far more than any other country, and drive far far far more highway miles, right?
Of course not.
You mean I’m more likely to die in a car accident than a resident of France or Japan? Color me shocked. I wonder why that is…
strictnein on January 10, 2013 at 10:29 PM
It’s weird. No “reasonable restrictions and guidelines”? No national database? No sweeping bans on things officials in DC decide adults in Oklahoma don’t “need”?
From yesterday:
Funny, that.
rogerb on January 10, 2013 at 10:33 PM
All you need to do to decrease your chances of being murdered by 90% is to avoid blue utopias like Chicago, Detroit, New York, etc…
wildcat72 on January 10, 2013 at 10:48 PM
Rush said years ago that the left will finally put a limit on abortion when people start having them to avoid producing gay children.
wildcat72 on January 10, 2013 at 10:50 PM
Of course they will not dare breaking the statistics by RACE…
mnjg on January 10, 2013 at 11:00 PM
I really don’t care what the statistics are.
The 2nd Amendment shall not be infringed.
It doesn’t matter what anyone feels about guns in the hands of lawful citizens.
The real point is, we have a Constitutional Republic.
It doesn’t matter what any majority feels about any part of the Constitution.
The Constitution is the LAW.
People don’t realize that & hence they support illegal actions bcs they cannot even understand the real law of this land.
Pathetic.
Badger40 on January 10, 2013 at 11:01 PM
I read somewhere that one of the races that Obama is half composed of is 12% of the population but commits more than 50% of all violent crimes…
I won’t say which one.
wildcat72 on January 10, 2013 at 11:04 PM
Leftism at its finest/worst.
Bmore on January 10, 2013 at 11:23 PM
Typical liberal study. As usual the liberals don’t look into the results deeper to find the real problem. Give me the demographic breakdown of those countries.
Between 2000-2010 there were 137,665 known murderers in the USA.
Blacks – 50%
Whites – 36%
Hispanic – 12%
So 28% of our population accounts for 62% of the murders.
So if those countries studied have a black population of 13% and (non-white)Hispanic population of 16% then I will believe the study.
The Notorious G.O.P on January 11, 2013 at 12:56 AM
The key wording in this lib-tard “study” is violent death.
Without a doubt the USA has more violent deaths … the majority of which are gang related.
However, when the wording is changed to murders per capita, European nations have us beat by a long shot.
kregg on January 11, 2013 at 5:57 AM
Gee. Maybe we need to consider reasonable restrictions on cars and promote mass transit to save at least 10% of lives lost. Oh wait…
AH_C on January 11, 2013 at 7:14 AM