Used to have some links, from one time when I tried to convince a
very delusional Englishman of that figure. When he started claiming that England, as a whole, had a population of no more than 500,000, and that there is no way in
hell that England could
possibly have approximately 50,000,000 people, I gave up.
Anyway...
Quick internet search, this is the first thing that came up for the USA.
http://www.the-eggman.com/writings/death_stats.html
In 2005, 776 people were killed due to unintentional firearms discharge. Call it 300 million people in 2005, and that's 0.2587 incidents per 100,000 population.
That reminds me, the FBI usually reports per-capita figures in per 100,000 population, while the English report in per 1,000 population, which makes the figures even more skewed, if someone is only paying attention to one of the numbers. Given the average grasp of statistics...
Anyway, I'm still looking for one for England. The English government
hates publishing statistics that are easy to find. I once spent 3 whole days trying to find the homicide rate in England. I'll edit a link in when I find something.
Statistics.gov.uk apparently only distinguishes between suicides and "undetermined intentions" where firearm deaths are concerned. I know I saw a source which had actual accidental deaths due to firearm discharge. Still looking.
The
total deaths caused by firearms in some capacity was about 0.36 per 100,000 for 2005, though. It may have been a different year I was looking at, way back when.
I'm probably going to have to give up. The deaths due to firearm discharges with "unknown intentions" was 10 in 2005, or 0.02 per 100,000. The actual rate of death due to accidental firearms discharge (W32-W34) are not reported anywhere.