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Aurora,Colorado;as appalling,horrible,incomprehensible as this tragedy is,what about the forgotten ones?

Drunk Driving Fatalities

1991-15,827

1992-14,049

1993-13,739

1994-13,390

1995-13,451

1996-13,451

1997-12,757

1998-12,546

1999-12,555

2000-13,324

2001-13,290

2002-13,427

2003-13,096

2004-13,099

2005-13,582

2006-13,497

2007-13,041

2008-11,711

2009-10,759

2010-10,228

www.centuryconcil.org

www.DUI-USA.DrinkDriving.org

Update:

Total 112,434 Innocent Men,Women,and Children.

Update 2:

Mizz,Your welcome and your right,112,434 over 10 year span,nobody cares,hell,it's common.

Update 3:

Steve,If you are talking abortion,i have mixed emotions.To bring an unwanted child into this world just means another suffering child.Abortion=murder,and the child has no chance.

Now,If your are talking death by child abuse,You are talking the worst of the worst.The lowest form of life on the planet.It induces "RAGE" just to think it.

Update 4:

Thanks for the reminder Desperad.

March 19,2003-August 2,2012=4,683 Died in a political war.hussein didn't have anything to do with bin laden.Big george ratings went down when he didn't go into baghdad when Kuwait was invaded.boy george thought he would be a hero if he got hussein.bin la din was in pakistan the whole time and they new it.

The Fort Hood killings and now again the flag is being flown at half mast.

I think that every time a solder dies,one solider dies,the Flag should be flown at half mast.It's easy to say:we would have to fly the flag at half mast nearly all the time.And that is true:

What better way to remind us that we have Men and Women dieing almost everyday.

Once again,Thank you for the reminder.

Update 5:

HiddenBe...

What does race have to do with it ?

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  • 9 years ago
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    or the soldiers overseas

  • 9 years ago

    I am betting that in Aurora there were plenty of thugs that killed each other and no one cared. When a crazy white man goes bazonkers and kills a bunch of middle class and probably white (though admittedly Aurora mall is a melting pot and has its fair share of thugs). Normal people in there normal lives getting killed is why this makes news. It was a horrible tragedy but it makes news for the same reason as Casey Anthony and Natalee Holloway.

  • Steve
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    9 years ago

    By "Forgotten Ones" I thought you meant the hundreds of perfectly viable, healthy babies that are slaughtered willingly, every day, by their mothers because they are 'an inconvenience' to them.

    But yes, the deaths from drunk driving are also very regrettable. But since they are spread out across the nation - one here, another there - it's not as spectacular.

  • 9 years ago

    Thank you! So right. Just goes back to my point that people dont care unless it has public interest.

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  • 9 years ago

    What about them? Those tragedies suck too.

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