Posted March 15, 2018 8:30 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

One of the few places anti-gunners get worked up and don’t completely make me blow a gasket is when they talk about accidents with firearms. Accidents do happen, and so long as even one person gets hurt in a gun-related accident, the rate is way too high. When the term “gun safety” comes up in this context, I’m onboard. After all, they generally aren’t really accidents, but negligence.

It’s all the stupid responses to these accidents that anti-gunners come up with that make me both furious and roll my eyes.

However, over at America’s First Freedom, Julie Golob has some interesting information on firearm-related accidents.

Gun ownership has risen to an all-time high. Accidental shooting deaths have fallen 48% since 1999

Baffled. That’s the best way to describe the reaction by the liberal media outlets when they discover that statistics for accidental gun deaths are down, even as the number of Americans owning guns is at an all-time high. But somehow these media outlets, and their compatriots in groups like Michael Bloomberg’s so-called Everytown for Gun Safety, always have the answer: Despite the fact that many attempts by anti-gun politicians to enact more restrictions on Second Amendment-protected rights have failed, according …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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