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Accidents with guns are at a historic all time low.
The numbers are lower than at any time since they started tracking firearms accidents in the 1930's.
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Is that total number of gun accidents, or per capita rate?
If that is a "total number of accidents", that would be amazing, as there are more guns, and more people with guns, than ever. Some of those guns are bound to be in poor mechanical shape, and many of those shooters are inexperienced .....
True, professional training is more common today than it was even 20 years ago, and hunter safety is now mandatory nearly everywhere ...... I am sure that has done much to reduce the rate and severity of accidents ...... but with the sheer number of first time gun buyers, and people new to CCW, I would think the raw numbers would be up, though the rate would be down.
Anybody have hard numbers?
OTH, it is not "news" when tragedy
doesn't happen: You don't hear the bubbleheaded bleach blond who comes on at 5, telling you about the 30 thousand flights yesterday that did not crash, with a gleam in her eye ..... to hear the denizens of the televisor tell it, commercial flight is deadly dangerous, when statistically, you have to fly every single day for over 100 years to even be involved in an airline accident, let alone be killed in one.