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Thu 22 Dec, 2011 06:28 pm
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Data recently released by the National Center for Health Statistics
show 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.
@OmSigDAVID,
I find it interesting how accidental shootings have dropped since trigger locks were required to be sold with guns.
Of course that was 2008.. It will be interesting to see the statistics after Heller. I'll bet shootings go up.
@parados,
parados wrote:I find it interesting how accidental shootings have dropped since trigger locks were required to be sold with guns.
Have u evidence that anyone has
used them??
I understand that, annually,
more people perish from drowning than from accidental gunfire.
@OmSigDAVID,
Merry Christmas: Single bullet kills teen girl, hits two other people
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20111223/ARTICLES/111229848/0/opinion
@engineer,
'Tis the season. Fiearms sales up during Xmas shopping season (according to DAVID). Thx for that, Engineer.
@engineer,
There have been problems with the Remington 700.
too many accidental discharges.
Three year old accidentally shoots and kills five year old. David thinks children of any age should be armed.
Senor citizen pissed about odors from a laundromat. Shoots and kills owners of laundromat, also senior citizens.
"I read the news today, oh boy..." Paul McCartney
Merry Christmas, buy a gun for your son.
@MontereyJack,
MontereyJack wrote:Three year old accidentally shoots and kills five year old.
David thinks children of any age should be armed.
As soon as feasible; on the day of their birth, thay r not likely to be able to bear arms,
but as soon as possible thereafter, within reason,
thay shoud receive training in proper gun handling techniques,
restoring the
status quo ante, as of the 18OOs n early 19OOs,
the same as teaching them to swim safely.
David
@MontereyJack,
MontereyJack wrote:Senor citizen pissed about odors from a laundromat.
Shoots and kills owners of laundromat, also senior citizens.
Maybe thay needed defensive armament?
MontereyJack wrote:"I read the news today, oh boy..." Paul McCartney
Is that a musical issue ?
MontereyJack wrote:Merry Christmas, buy a gun for your son.
Thanks Merry Christmas to u too; I don 't have a son;
therefore: he needs no defense.
David
Probably a good thing you don't have a son. I'd think the probabilities are quite high he'd have "accidentally" shot you. Though that would have the side benefit of deleting all these inane gun threads you generate.
@MontereyJack,
MontereyJack wrote:Probably a good thing you don't have a son.
We agree about
SOMETHING
(tho I have gotten along well with my girlfriends' children).
MontereyJack wrote:I'd think the probabilities are quite high he'd have "accidentally" shot you.
U never know.
That sort of thing has happened b4; it accelerates inheritance.
I did not quite see eye-to-eye with my own father,
who was a Roosevelt Democrat; I never was.
I had much deeper feelings toward libertarianism n Individualism than he did.
Children of mine coud
very easily reject my most cherished beliefs.
MontereyJack wrote:Though that would have the side benefit of deleting all these inane gun threads you generate.
Yes; the
pro-freedom philosophy woud not be represented much here.
David
Pro-freedom philosophy would be represented just fine. Gun worship wouldn't be.
@MontereyJack,
MontereyJack wrote:Pro-freedom philosophy would be represented just fine.
There is not much of that.
MontereyJack wrote:Gun worship [????] wouldn't be.
It is not related to religion.
Guns r tools for our use,
but we can have
FUN with them !
David
@OmSigDAVID,
Remember.. Guns don't kill people.
People dressed as Santa kill people.
Quote:Police were looking for a motive in a shooting in which they believe a man dressed as Santa Claus killed six family members in a Fort Worth, Texas, suburb on Christmas day before shooting himself.
Meanwhile people dressed as Santa are at an all time low.
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