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In USA 90+ people (including children) die EVERY DAY due to firearm accidents. Again, these are toys to make some men feel powerful.

• hga 13y ago
  Not even close. The number of fatal accidents per year is ~600. To get your 90+ number you're including suicides, which outnumber other illegal uses of guns; seeing that internationally suicide rates have no correlation whatsoever with gun ownership rates, and many developed countries have way higher suicide rates than ours, one would hope you could see gun mediated suicides don't belong in the same category. Ah, while we're doing math, I get 6200 defense uses of guns every day.
  • lifeguard 13y ago
    I was wrong, that stat is for ALL firearm deaths. Only 60 Americans were accidentally killed by guns today. And yesterday. And the day before that. http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/dataRestriction_inj.html http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/dataRestriction_inj.html http://smartgunlaws.org/gun-deaths-and-injuries-statistics/ http://smartgunlaws.org/gun-deaths-and-injuries-statistics/
    • hga 13y ago
      Murder is an "accident"? (OK, one of those 2010 deaths ruled as accidental was a murder or thereabouts, certainly nothing accidental about it: http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/x1939349175/Loaded-gun-kills-girl-at-slumber-party http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/x1939349175/Loaded-gun-kill...)
      • lifeguard 13y ago
        60 accidents + 30 murders EVERY.DAY.HERE.