NSSF: Fatal Firearm Accident Comparisons

Gun Watch ^ | 29 December, 2014 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

The graphic is from the National Shooting Sports Foundation.   Accidental firearm fatalities are at an all time low in the United States.  The pure numbers do not give the best comparison.  You need to look at the rates, or accidental firearm fatalities per 100,000 population to see the stunning reduction in the last century.  

The accidental fatal firearm rate has dropped by 94% since we started keeping statistics, even though the total number of firearms per capita has likely at least doubled.  That number is harder to pin down, but firearms have become more affordable with the industrial revolution, mass manufacturing, and with tens of millions of surplus firearms being made available after world wars one and two.

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[marktwain]

Disarmists are not really worried about accidents, suicides, and homicides. They want the population disarmed. This is easily seen in the example of Switzerland, which has world wide envied low homicide and accident rates, and very high ownership of firearms.

Instead of praising Switzerland, the left is aggressively pushing for much stricter gun controls based on the miniscule level of homicide, accidents and suicides committed with guns in Switzerland.

[thackney]

Thanks for posting.

Bookmarked for sharing with the first doctor that ever asks about guns in our home.

[RC one]

The US pharmaceutical industry kills way more children than the US firearms industry every year. Why aren’t the lefties talking about this? Oh, because they don’t actually give a **** about children, they only care about disarming conservatives.

[Buffalo Head]

Thanks for this great post. I sent a copy to my local newspaper.

[aragorn]

I sent a copy to my local newspaper.

So did I.

Thanks for posting marktwain.

[Zathras]

How many died of boredom listening to an Obama speech?

[Inyo-Mono]

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