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"... statistics released by the National Safety Council on the chances of being ACCIDENTLY killed in any given manner.
...ACCIDENTAL GUNSHOT 1 in 4888"
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The article is absurd on its face if that's really the way the numbers are presented. More likely they meant to say that 1 in every 4888 accidental deaths is from a gunshot. That is *much* different than saying any one individual's chances of dying from accidental gunshot are 1/4888. One cannot, in fact, assess an individual's risk this way. For example, what if (hypothetically) an individual never ever went close enough to a firearm to be shot by it. His chances of dying from accidental gunshot would be exactly zero.
Tim
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