Accidental Gun Deaths Down, Most Media Outlets Silent

By Tom Knighton

When it comes to making an anti-gun point, every death matters. There’s a reason anti-gun zealots lump suicide numbers in with homicides to make their point. They want as large a number as humanly possible because big numbers look scary. They can’t quite get away with just throwing out large numbers with absolutely no basis in reality–though they’re close to that, don’t get me wrong–so they gather anything that looks remotely like a gun death to make their point.

As a result, they really aren’t happy when something like this happens.

Gun violence has received no shortage of attention. But one bright spot has gotten much less: the number of accidental shooting deaths has steadily declined.

There were 489 people killed in unintentional shootings in the U.S. in 2015, the most recent year for which data is available. That was down from 824 deaths in 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Taking into account population growth over that time, the rate fell 48%.

Experts attribute the decline to a mix of gun safety education programs, state laws regulating gun storage in homes and a drop in the number of households that have guns. While the improvement occurred …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms