If you were foolish enough to believe Leftist lies, you might think that the liberalization of gun ownership and, in particular, allowing citizens to carry guns, resulted in an increase in gun related deaths. You would be wrong. From a 2020 NRA fact sheet on gun deaths (footnotes omitted):
- Since 1903, the earliest year of data available, the per capita rate of gun accident deaths has decreased 95 percent, from 3.1 to 0.14 deaths per 100,000 population.
- There were 458 fatal firearms-related accidents in 2018 – the lowest since at least 1903 – and the rate matched the record low of 0.14 per 100k population.
- Over the last 25 years, annual numbers of gun accident deaths have decreased by more than 66%. Concurrently, Americans have acquired over 200 million new guns and today own approximately 407 million guns, an all-time high.
You will note from the same article that firearms related deaths for children 0-14 was only 1.41% of all fatal injuries and far less than motor vehicle accidents, suffocation, or drowning.
Bingo.
ReplyDeleteWe've come a long way from John Smith who accidentally set off a bag of gunpowder that so badly injured him that he was forced to leave the colonies and return to England.
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