For those of you keeping count at home, here’s the latest score:
Non-U.S.
2,977 victims and 19 hijackers on 9/11/2001
3173 and counting deaths of U.S/ally military in Operation Enduring Freedom
4 U.S. embassy personnel in recent Libyan attack
U.S.
1 (Osama bin Laden)
2,562 – 3,325 (via drone attacks)
countless thousands of “insurgents”
Annual domestic U.S. deaths by category:
- Heart disease: 599,413
- Cancer: 567,628
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 137,353
- Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 128,842
- Alzheimer’s disease: 79,003
- Diabetes: 68,705
- Influenza and Pneumonia: 53,692
- Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 48,935
- Intentional self-harm (suicide): 36,909
- Accidents (unintentional injuries) ………………………..118,021
- Transport accidents ………………………………..39,031
- Motor vehicle accidents……36,216
- Other land transport accidents….1,033
- Water, air and space, and other………………………………….1,782
- Nontransport accidents ………………………………78,990
- Falls …………………………………………24,792
- Accidental discharge of firearms…………………………..554
- Assault (homicide)…………………………… 16,799
- — Assault (homicide) by discharge of firearms …………………..11,493
- — Assault (homicide) by other unspecified means……..5,306
Winner? You decide