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The number of guns versus number of (reported) gun related crimes is pretty low. Pretty low for pressure cookers too I would imagine. Not sure what the OSHA g

• astrodust 14y ago
  There's roughly 270 million guns in the USA and every day about 270 shootings. A ratio of one in a million. I'm not sure how many pressure cookers there are in the US, probably in the tens of millions at most. I can't find any data on how many injuries are caused by them, but there'd have to be 10-20 incidents per day for it to measure up to guns in terms of injuries per object. The most common injury from a pressure cooker is a burn. There are about 100 burns requiring medical attention in the US daily (http://www.ameriburn.org/resources_factsheet.php http://www.ameriburn.org/resources_factsheet.php) and it's unlikely that 25% of these are caused by pressure cookers given the wide number of causes of burns.
  • mindcrime 14y ago
    Sounds to me like pressure cookers are quite the danger. I say we implement rigorous background checks before allowing their purchase, keep a database of all purchased pressure cookers, require mandatory training and a seven day waiting period before purchase, and require mandatory lid locks. Also, any pressure cooker with a pistol grip or bayonet lug is clearly an assault cooker and must be banned.
    • astrodust 14y ago
      Kinder Surprise was presumably banned because of the assault variants flooding the market.