Art Eatman
Moderator In Memoriam
From the Lew Rockwell website: Long, but worth the read.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/perry/perry37.html
Excerpts:
"One trend related to health and safety that you may not know about is this: firearm-related accidents have steadily decreased since such record keeping began in 1903. Far more important and astounding is that for the past 10 years this drop was extra dramatic."
And:
"Consider these facts the NSSF states so eloquently:
1. In the past 10 years, firearm-related accidents in the home have dropped by more than 44 percent!
2. Over the past 9 years, the number of unintentional firearm-related fatalities for children 14 and under has decreased by 69 percent!
3. Firearms are involved in fewer than 1.2 percent of accidental fatalities among children 14 and under!
4. The number of unintentional firearm-related deaths has decreased by 40 percent – from 1,225 accidental deaths in 1995 to just 730 in 2005!
5. Accidental fatality rates involving firearms are at the lowest levels in history at 0.2% per 100,000 population!
6. Since 1903, the rate per 100,000 population of accidental fatality rates has declined by 94 percent!
7. Of firearms, fires, flames, smoke, motor vehicles, and ingestion of food or objects, unintentional fatalities in the USA from firearms had the largest rate of decrease in the past decade!
8. More people died from natural heat or cold in 2005 (the final year in the study) than by firearms!
9. The record-high year of firearm-related accidents was in 1930 where America experienced 3,220 incidents. In 2005 this number had dropped to only 730 in spite of the fact that the population grew considerably and the number of firearms present in America skyrocketed!
10. If you really want a safe sport, go hunting! In 2005, there were 808 non-fatal shooting accidents and 95 fatal shooting accidents out of 20.9 million active hunters (those who hunt more than once each year aged 7 and older). Cheerleading, Archery, Baseball, Boxing, Football, Hockey, Martial Arts, Mountain Biking, Mountain Climbing, Skateboarding, Snowboarding, Soccer, Softball, Tennis, Volleyball, Water Skiing, and Wrestling each had fewer participants and more injuries than hunting!"
http://www.lewrockwell.com/perry/perry37.html
Excerpts:
"One trend related to health and safety that you may not know about is this: firearm-related accidents have steadily decreased since such record keeping began in 1903. Far more important and astounding is that for the past 10 years this drop was extra dramatic."
And:
"Consider these facts the NSSF states so eloquently:
1. In the past 10 years, firearm-related accidents in the home have dropped by more than 44 percent!
2. Over the past 9 years, the number of unintentional firearm-related fatalities for children 14 and under has decreased by 69 percent!
3. Firearms are involved in fewer than 1.2 percent of accidental fatalities among children 14 and under!
4. The number of unintentional firearm-related deaths has decreased by 40 percent – from 1,225 accidental deaths in 1995 to just 730 in 2005!
5. Accidental fatality rates involving firearms are at the lowest levels in history at 0.2% per 100,000 population!
6. Since 1903, the rate per 100,000 population of accidental fatality rates has declined by 94 percent!
7. Of firearms, fires, flames, smoke, motor vehicles, and ingestion of food or objects, unintentional fatalities in the USA from firearms had the largest rate of decrease in the past decade!
8. More people died from natural heat or cold in 2005 (the final year in the study) than by firearms!
9. The record-high year of firearm-related accidents was in 1930 where America experienced 3,220 incidents. In 2005 this number had dropped to only 730 in spite of the fact that the population grew considerably and the number of firearms present in America skyrocketed!
10. If you really want a safe sport, go hunting! In 2005, there were 808 non-fatal shooting accidents and 95 fatal shooting accidents out of 20.9 million active hunters (those who hunt more than once each year aged 7 and older). Cheerleading, Archery, Baseball, Boxing, Football, Hockey, Martial Arts, Mountain Biking, Mountain Climbing, Skateboarding, Snowboarding, Soccer, Softball, Tennis, Volleyball, Water Skiing, and Wrestling each had fewer participants and more injuries than hunting!"
