Brady campaign on Fabebook -- Too Many Gun Accidents!

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Yet gun accident rates have been reducing for a century.


The firearm accident death rate is at an all-time annual low, 0.2 per 100,000 population, down 94% since the all-time high in 1904. Since 1930, the annual number of such deaths has decreased 80%, to an all-time low, while the U.S. population has more than doubled and the number of firearms has quintupled. Among children, such deaths have decreased 90% since 1975. Today, the odds are more than a million to one, against a child in the U.S. dying in a firearm accident.

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http://www.nraila.org/issues/factsheets/read.aspx?id=120

Seems like someone is getting desperate...

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If the accident rate is 0.2 per 100,000, how can the odds be more than a million to one? The death rate is 1 in 500,000.

Or am I missing something?

[LAGC]

If the accident rate is 0.2 per 100,000, how can the odds be more than a million to one? The death rate is 1 in 500,000.

Or am I missing something?

It says that the odds are more than a million to one of a CHILD in the U.S. dying in a firearm accident. Naturally, if you account for all adults as well, the rate is a bit higher.

The source for that bottom graph is the NRA-ILA, follow the link for the full article.

[ATAK, Inc.]

It says that the odds are more than a million to one of a CHILD in the U.S. dying in a firearm accident. Naturally, if you account for all adults as well, the rate is a bit higher.

The source for that bottom graph is the NRA-ILA, follow the link for the full article.


You know, I guess I read more into it than there was.