Death statistics

Does a Paris-style attack (128 people dead) happen every day in the USA due to guns or cars? No.

In USA, guns kill 92 people per day. 31 of these are murder.
In USA, car crashes kill 82 people per day.

This article led me here, which led me here.

Guns killed 33,636 people in 2013, according to the CDC. Looking at this, we can see the breakdown is:
505 Accident
21,175 Suicide
11,208 Murder
281 Other
467 Other other (I didn’t get the numbers to add up).

Car crashes killed 30,057 people in 2013, according to NHTSA. This is 82 per day

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