"...According to the report, the VPC found that
the number of gun deaths surpassed the number of motor vehicle deaths in ten U.S. states in 2009, the most recent year for which state-level data is available.
“Motor vehicle deaths are on the decline as the result of a successful decades-long public health-based injury prevention strategy that includes safety-related changes to vehicles and highway design,” reads an entry from the VPC website. “Meanwhile, firearms are the only consumer product not regulated by the federal government for health and safety.”
In the VPC’s report, ten states are identified as having a higher rate of gun deaths than motor vehicle deaths. The table below illustrates the statistics involving these states:
State Gun Deaths in 2009 Traffic Deaths in 2009
Alaska 104 84
Arizona 856 809
Colorado 583 565
Indiana 735 715
Michigan 1,095 977
Nevada 406 255
Oregon 417 394
Utah 260 256
Virginia 836 827
Washington 623 580
Gun Deaths Outnumber Traffic Deaths in Washington, Nine Other States
Some of those ten states (if not all) have the most lax gun control laws in the country.