Study: Shooting replaces car accidents as the number one cause of traumatic death in Americans

For a long time, car accidents were the number one cause of premature death in The United States, and now things have changed — that "disgraceful" reputation has been taken over by shooting. A new study in the United States shows that since 2017, the "number of years of potential life loss" caused by shootings in the country has exceeded the data on the losses caused by car accidents. Shooting has become the leading cause of traumatic death in Americans.

A man holds a FN509 Compact pistol as he helps a customer at WEX Gunworks on March 24, 2021 in Delray Beach, Florida, US. [Photo/Agncies]

Firearm-related deaths are continuing their rapid rise in the US, with a new study finding they have overtaken car crashes as the leading cause of "years of potential life lost" due to trauma.

A new study found that shootings have surpassed car accidents as the number of gun deaths in the United States continues to surge, becoming the leading cause of premature death from trauma in the country.

In 2017, there were 1.44 million years of potential life lost due to firearm deaths, edging out that of motor vehicle crashes (1.37 million years), according to the study published Tuesday in the journalTrauma Surgery and Acute Care Open. And that trend continued in 2018.

According to a study published Feb. 22 in the journal Trauma Surgery and Emergency Care, the number of years of potential life loss due to shootings was 1.44 million years in 2017, slightly higher than the 1.37 million years of car accidents. This trend continued in 2018.

Those numbers are based on data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention between 2009 and 2018, the most recent year for which data was available.

The study data is based on data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2009 to 2018. The latest available data is updated to 2018.

Researchers used the CDC standard formula to calculate years of potential life lost by subtracting the age of death from the standard age of 80, to represent the average US life expectancy of 78.7 years and then added the differences.

The researchers used the CDC's standard formula to calculate the number of years of potential life loss by subtracting the age of the deceased by 80 years (close to the average American life expectancy of 78.7 years) and then adding up the difference.

The study found that suicides accounted for most of the deaths by firearms -- and those deaths had been in increasing.

The study found that suicide accounts for the majority of gun-related deaths, and that number has been increasing.

The number of suicides by firearm rose from fewer than 19,000 in 2009 to over 24,000 in 2018. Across the 10 years studied, White men made up the majority of suicide-related firearm deaths, with 4.95 million years of potential life lost.

The number of people who committed suicides by gun rose from less than 19,000 in 2009 to more than 24,000 in 2018. In the 10 years of the study, the majority of people who died by suicide at gunpoint were white men, and their potential life loss years were 4.95 million years.

Meanwhile, the majority of homicide-related firearm deaths were among Black men, with 3.2 million years of potential life lost, the study found.

Meanwhile, the study found that the majority of people killed in gun homicides were black men with a potential loss of 3.2 million years of life.

"Previous studies have shown that firearm ownership, mass shootings, injuries and death are more of a problem in the USA as compared with other developed countries," the researchers wrote. "

"Previous studies have shown that gun ownership, mass shootings, casualties and other problems are more prominent in the United States than in other developed countries," the researchers wrote. ”

Source: CNN

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