Gun Safety Data Is In — 2015 Was A Good Year For The Good Guys! Why Basic Firearms Education Is So Important

By James England

I know I harp on this a lot but basic firearm safety is something that makes everyone safer. The more people that know and abide by the four basic rules of firearm safety, the less chance of a negligent discharge or accidental shooting of another person.

Whether or not firearms education had anything to do with it, the National Safety Council reported that 2015 had the lowest incidence of accidental injury and death by firearms since 1903.

Then National Safety Council is a government institution that tracks and reports causes of death and injury within the United States. They weed through all the data reported from hospitals and medical institutions to determine what’s causing people to die and get injured.

In 2015, they reported that 489 people died from accidental gunshot wounds.

“That’s about three-tenths of 1 percent of the 146,571 total accidental deaths from all other listed causes. The decrease came in a year that saw record firearms sales to many millions of Americans,” according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the gun industry’s representative.

That doesn’t mean we take those 489 deaths lightly but it does put accidental deaths attributable to guns down into the range of dying from riding a …Read the Rest