and with an all time high in the number of firearms in private hands... go figure
Posted on 12/31/2011 6:19:05 AM PST by marktwain
Data recently released by the National Center for Health Statistics shows that in 2008, the number and per capita rate of firearm accident deaths fell to an all-time low. There were 592 firearm accident deaths (0.19 such accidents per 100,000 population) in 2008, as compared to 613 accidents (.20 per 100,000) in 2007. In 2008, the chance of a child dying in a firearm accident was roughly one in a million.
Firearm accidents accounted for 0.5% of all accidental deaths; well below the percentages accounted for by motor vehicle accidents, falls, fires, poisonings, and several other more common types of mishaps.
Firearm suicides rose in 2008 because total suicides rose, but the percentage of suicides accounted for by those misusing firearms remained steady, at just barely over half. This is down from about 60% during the 1980s and early 1990s. The firearm suicide rate remained at just under 6 per 100,000, as it has been every year from 1999 forward. Contrary to claims made recently by some gun control advocates, firearm suicides among children are extremely uncommon, and in 2008, fell to an all-time low.
Firearm homicides (including self-defense, but excluding lawful shootings by police) declined in 2008. More recent data reported by the FBI, shows that criminal homicides declined in 2008, again in 2009, and again in 2010, to a 47-year low.
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Dammit. /liberal>
In related news, firearms purchasing and training is at an all-time high......
How can this be?
Perhaps one explanation would be that the illegal messkans are returning home due to poor ecomonics in the U.S.
I dunno, just sayin.
Perhaps it is because more law-abiding responsible adults are packing which results in fewer idiot gang-bangers trying to act tough.
And here I was always told by the Liberal media that more guns would equal more deaths by enraged rednecks and other red staters having gun battles over trivial disputes!
Robert Heinlein was correct.
Meant to say, Bitter Clingers!
Good, sober, responsible use, handling and ownership of firearms is always a win.
I prefer to think of firearms as secret. I don’t discuss what I have with strangers, I don’t wear it so it will draw attraction, and I am very cognizant about handling my weapon around my son. I make every effort to keep it hidden, and it’s what I called my “find” gun, if he were ever interested in finding it. It’s in a double retention holster, and unloaded, with the mag in another place. There are others that no one could find without really digging, and no one has seen those.
Programs like Eddie Eagle are good programs and I think the NRA would be money ahead if they just sent out mass DVDs on the safe handling of firearms.
Fox news in Austin had a report yesterday that gun sales here were at an all time high between black Friday and Christmas and concealed carry classes were booked solid in the near future. Looks like 0 bummer is the gun salesman for the third year in a row.
There was a recent shootout between two legal gun owners near me recently. (drunken husband and wife thing) Naturally the liberals went ballistic over their “proof”.
The paper did some digging and found that of the more than 4000 permits given out in the county over the past ten years, only 31 had been revoked and only 4 of those had been revoked due to a crime that actually involved the weapon. In the same period more than 300 crimes had been committed by people possessing guns without a permit.
We also had a recent case where a gun owner was charged with a stabbing which was ruled self defense and the funny thing was that he had his gun on him at the time. He said he didn’t want to kill the guy, just stop him.
and with an all time high in the number of firearms in private hands... go figure
As I recall, typically if you kill someone with a gun (even defending yourself in your own home), it is initially called a homicide. The next step is that the DA or other legal type will (should) rule it “justifiable”.
One of the reasons why US statistics quoted by the control people in the UN and in Europe are seriously inflated is that they don’t make the distinction...they just look at the first number and call everything a “gun homicide”.
You bet.
My pal and I were headed into a Mall last week and we both carried our 38 snubbys {with permits} and he said, "We won't need these, but if we did, I'd hate to die knowing that we left our guns in the truck".
And I said," That ain't ever gonna happen with you and me".
We didn't need them, again, Thank God and the Second Amendment.
It is amazing how much more safe you really are when you are carrying a gun, have the training and will to use it, and the good sense not to play "tough guy" because you are armed.
Nobody who carries needs to prove anything. I suggest that “an armed society is a polite society”, and more so, the criminal element never knows who is armed. Of course crime drops, because evil is denied opportunity.
Now if I were a tyrant, or mob boss I would definitely want gun control in order to disarm more people/victims. Indeed, even the physically strong are in the position to be able to bully, rob, rape.
Ironic that the left, which wants ‘equality’, wants to deny the equality which results from the ability to arm one self, where a 98 pound grandmother is the ‘equal’ to a 250 pound gang banging ex-con. But that obvious point is lost on them, however more women than ever are filling CCW courses, and as it should be!
They are saying that sometimes police shootings are not lawful.
Why they are including lawful self-defense by citizens, I don't know but if they do and the rate is still down it all the more means that the more guns we have the safer we are.
They are saying that sometimes police shootings are not lawful.
Why they are including lawful self-defense by citizens, I don't know but if they do and the rate is still down it all the more means that the more guns we have the safer we are.
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