Firearms Account for Less Than 0.5% of All Unintentional Fatalities

By Robert Farago

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) – the firearms industry lobby group – have released their most recent survey of firearms injuries and fatalities. Click here for a farrago of charts and graphics, all leading to one inescapable conclusion: guns aren’t dangerous, relatively speaking. Poisoning, for example, accounts for half of all unintentional fatalities in the home. Negligent discharges? Easily rounded down to zero (.06%). In terms of overall accidental deaths, firearms rate just below machinery-related fatalities, accounting for 0.5 percent of the total. Again, effectively zero. That said . . .

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Via:: Truth About Guns