[stevenbedrick]

Agreed 100%, but you forgot one more category of deaths that Americans seem more than happy to live with: deaths from preventable or easily (and cheaply!) treatable medical conditions, as well as deaths from medical errors (one commonly-cited IOM report places the total annual number of preventable deaths due to medical error in the same ballpark as the number of people killed in traffic accidents).

[lutorm]

Yeah, maybe... It sure seems like there are a lot more medical lawsuits than traffic death lawsuits though.