Monday, December 10, 2007

Pesky Facts

From Ride Fast and Shoot Straight:

According to the National Safety Council and the National Shooting Sports Foundation's Industry Intelligence Reports, Volume 2, Number 5, 2007 * [Warning: Large PDF document]:

  • Firearm-related fatalities in the U.S. have been decreasing consistently since record keeping began in 1903 and dramatically in the last 10 years.
  • Over the last nine years, the number of unintentional firearm related fatalities for children (14 years of age and under) has decreased by 69 percent.
  • Accidental firearm related fatalities are substantially lower compared to the number of accidental deaths caused by other injury types.
  • Hunting is one of the safest forms of recreation in the United States.
  • Firearms are involved in fewer than 1.2 percent of accidental fatalities among children (14 years of age and under).
  • In the past 10 years, firearm related accidents in the home have dropped by more than 44 percent.
  • Firearms are involved in fewer than 1 percent (0.7 percent) of all accidental fatalities in the United States.
  • Over the last decade the rate of firearm-related injuries per 100,000 people has declined by 60 percent (from 0.5 percent in 1995 to 0.2 percent in 2005).

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