Accidental death statistics...

[traderdan]

Center for Disease Control Stats. In 2007 there were 3443 accidental drownings,29,846 accidental poisonings ( I am sure this includes accidental ODs) and 613 accidental firearms related deaths in the US....

 

[SSGSAD]

^^^^^ THIS has been "normal" for YEARS... GUN "accidents", and deaths, have been on the DECLINE, while MORE and MORE people own MORE guns .....

 

[traderdan]

I did not know if anyone had posted this information in a while,unfortunately I could not find newer stats....It seems that a lot of people have an unreasonable fear of having firearms in the home based on the dramatic reporting when an accident occurs.I have heard the statement from young men "my wife won't let me have guns while the children are young". How sad to hear a full grown man say such a thing...

 

[SSGSAD]

I did not know if anyone had posted this information in a while,unfortunately I could not find newer stats....

these stats, are ALWAYS a few years behind ...

 

[the1kidd03]

If you calculate total number of deaths AND injuries by firearm in country and weigh it against the LAST known number of legal gun owners (80 million) it turns out that over 99% of LAW ABIDING firearms owners heart NOBODY, EVERY year

 

[rgrimm01]

If my math is correct, that is 0.000204% of the US population. I am sure the percentage would be higher if the group included only those people who actually own firearms, but still very good odds... and 0.00076625 for the 80 million...

 

[Bunnykid68]

My guns killed no one yesterday

 

[SSGSAD]

My guns killed no one yesterday

Mine either ..... IN FACT, Ted Kennedys CAR, has killed MORE people, than ALL my guns put together .....

 

[kludge]

If you calculate total number of deaths AND injuries by firearm in country and weigh it against the LAST known number of legal gun owners (80 million) it turns out that over 99% of LAW ABIDING firearms owners heart NOBODY, EVERY year

It's a whole lot more than 99%... probably 99.98% for non-accidental gun deaths.

rgrimm... yep, the math is correct 0.000766% of gun owners have an accidental gun death. That's a rate of 1 accidental gun death for every 130,506 gun owners.

Still too many if you ask me... taken over a lifetime of 75 years, that drops way down to 1740.

Yeah. Chew on that number.

And nearly every one of them is preventable if you...

ALWAYS keep the gun pointed in a safe direction.
ALWAYS keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot.
ALWAYS keep the gun unloaded when not in use.

Just a couple weeks ago a buddy of mine had a guy put a bullet through his refrigerator because he didn't know how to properly use is 1911. Old guys love 'em - it's a status symbol for them, I think. (He was a "condition 2" carry guy, was lowering the hammer when it slipped.)

Like Kirk always says -- please stop fiddling with your gun.

And when you do fiddle with it, PLEASE have a safe backstop. A bucket of sand at the home depot is cheap. A box of old magazines will work too.

 

[rgrimm01]

....I have heard the statement from young men "my wife won't let me have guns while the children are young". How sad to hear a full grown man say such a thing...

I do not understand this. It must be the times in which we live. Having been raised in a house that always had guns, having firearms (or seeing someone with them) is as natural as seeing someone walk. As far as dad's guns, we kids knew where they were. We did not touch them. Never. Never. Never. Why do you suppose that is? How did we kids ever survive in that environment?

 

[youngda9]

Too much coonfingering going on.

 

[BlueEagle]

I do not understand this. It must be the times in which we live. Having been raised in a house that always had guns, having firearms (or seeing someone with them) is as natural as seeing someone walk. As far as dad's guns, we kids knew where they were. We did not touch them. Never. Never. Never. Why do you suppose that is? How did we kids ever survive in that environment?

Clearly your survival was nothing short of a miracle. You grew up in a house with inanimate metal objects that had the capacity to project smaller metal objects long distances!

*faints*

 

[The Bubba Effect]

Too much coonfingering going on.

Not enough Frame Hammering?

 

[Caleb]

Evil guns kills people and everybody knows it!