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To: marktwain

Now just correlate it to number of shooters mauled and we have useful info.


2 posted on 04/27/2026 5:55:30 AM PDT by anton
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To: anton

Humans are injured in about 23% of the cases. About 17% of the total were injured before shots were fired.

There was one death for 175 cases.

There were no injuries in cases where more than six shots were fired.

Of the 6% which were injured after shots were fired, I recall about 3 out of 7 were injured where it took time in the hospital and surgeries to recover. So “major” injuries about 2% of the time when injuries happened after shots were fired.

The one fatality occurred when using a .22 pistol in defense against a hungry polar bear.

As I recall, most of the injuries were


11 posted on 04/27/2026 6:13:33 AM PDT by marktwain (----------------------)
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