Gun Control & RKBA

You post in response to my comment: In short, your actions betray your intentions.
I’m glad my actions betray my intentions, which clearly were an attempt to point out that at the very least you presented a distortion of known facts.

Your OP “From the CDC...National vital statistics reports. Deaths: Final; data for 2013. The top 15 causes of death, in order, are::” and your comment that Shooting doesn't seem to make the top 15.

I post that firearms deaths (shooting deaths) in that same report would be thirteenth on your unconnected list.

You note that suicides and homicides have different causes. Duh………..So what? Providing accurate information was/is my intention. That some are unable to understand that suicide, homicide, unintentional, undetermined and legal intervention in CDC reports are subsets of firearms deaths is a mistake on their part, not mine. An understanding of classification and categorizing as done in this case by the CDC seems to be the problem. There’s no nefarious purpose in “lumping” suicide and homicide in the same category. They are both firearms deaths. PERIOD.
From the CDC
In this case injury deaths have two dimensions; the mechanism of the injury and its manner or intent. Firearm is the mechanism under discussion. falls, motor vehicle traffic, or poisoning are some others (None on your list). The manner or intent involves whether the injury was purposefully inflicted (where it can be determined) and, when intentional, whether the injury was self-inflicted (suicide) or inflicted upon another person (assault).
IMO there’s philosophical perspective in that gun enthusiasts tend to think of homicide in their discussion of gun deaths, gun control advocates seem to be more concerned with all of the components of gun deaths which includes suicides.