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streamofthesky posted...

As far as alcohol deaths, for such a comparison of which is more dangerous to the general populace / innocents, take out all the deaths to the drinkers themselves and only look at the deaths of other people they caused.

The alcohol deaths likely are still higher than gun deaths after that, but way more people drink way more often than they do fire a loaded gun.

However, only looking at deaths greatly conceals the total damage done by drinking to other people. Alcohol is tied at the hip with rape, domestic violence, child abuse, and other criminal behavior that directly harms other people.

Granted, no matter what, only looking at the harm done to others by drinking is a stupid metric because if you're talking about killing Americans, you want to look at both the drinker and the people harmed by the drinker. Somebody who accidentally dies as a result of drinking is still killed as a result of drinking. That's not counting people who lose their jobs, homes, family, etc, as a result of drinking and later decide to kill themselves or their family. At its worst, guns are a means to an end and the problem already exists. Alcohol actively CREATES the problems.
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