ACCIDENTAL FIREARM-RELATED FATALITIES DROP TO ALL-TIME LOW

[anonymous44]

http://www.nssf.org/news/PR_idx.cfm?AoI=generic&PRloc=common/PR/&PR=120704.cfm

NEWTOWN, Conn.—A report from the National Safety Council shows that accidental firearm-related fatalities continue to decline and are at the lowest level in the history of record keeping. Statistics in the council’s “Injury Facts 2004” reveal a 54 percent decrease over a 10-year period ending in 2003.....

[HEyHEY]

1. Did all the morons finally kill themselves off?

[secedeeconomically]

2. Well I guess that campaign worked

you know the one, telling firearm owners that bullets come out of the end with the hole and travel very very fast lolol

[enough]

3. Who's counting the statistics?

Diebold, ESS or Triad?

[jesusq]

4. Accidental shootings?

How about intentional shootings? see, as a gun owner, I personally think most "accidents" are completely bogus, (I was cleaning my gun and didn't know there was a round in the chamber, I thought my wife was a deer, etc.) You have to be willing to believe that someone can be careful and methodical enough to disassemble a firearm, which is at least as difficult as many of the tasks on an IQ test, but would be careless enough to forget a bullet left in the chamber and just so happened to have the barrel pointing at someone's head. It's the perfect crime, because a guilty verdict must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, and how can you reasonably doubt that someone might be stupid?

If Scott Petersen had the foresight to take his wife on a hunting trip instead of going fishing, well, I betcha he'd still be a free man.

[JeebusB]

12. Accidental shooting accidental killing.

And, being a part-time instructor, I can attest to the fact that there are many, many people who own guns but shouldn't due to their lack of knowledge re. safety, storage and gun-handling.


(many of them are cops. <snicker>)

[burn the bush]

5. yeah all the shootings are on purpose now

[jody]

6. From 2002 to 2003 total accidental deaths declined

from 106,742 to 101,537 (decline of 4.88%) and firearm related deaths declined from 762 to 700 (decline of 8.14%).
Source data for 2002

I wonder what effect improvements in emergency room treatment had in the overall decline in accidental deaths?

[Wickerman]

7. Likewise

I wonder what effect improved forensics has had on determining cause of death?

[Columbia]

8. Have we become so jaded

That not one single person can see this as good news and not resort to derogatory comments against gun owners? :wtf:

[leftyandproud]

9. yes...

guns kill people.

they should be banned..

cars too.

[slackmaster]

10. Good news and moderate positions rarely get much attention here

On this forum.

:wtf:

[cattleman22]

11. My thoughts as well. n/t