2016 01: Deaths from Motor Vehicles and Guns Converge

For the first time ever, firearms and motor vehicles are killing Americans at an identical rate, according to an analysis of Centers for Disease Control data by the Violence Prevention Project at University of California, Davis. The convergence of the rates of these causes of death is primarily due to a dramatic drop in the rate of motor vehicle fatalities since the early 1970s. The current rate of gun deaths is higher than the 1950s and 1960s, but lower than the three decades that followed.