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Originally Posted by G1911
There are not that many for firearms either. I'll use a left-wing pro-gun control source.
NPR ( https://www.npr.org/2021/08/31/10327...death-children) using data from the extremely biased Everytonw group says there were 2,070 'accidental' shootings by children from 2015-2020, and 765 deaths, or 127.5 a year.
127.5 per year from guns, 389 from accidental drownings of under 15's (the gap is even larger, as the guns go up to actual adulthood; https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-R...ercent-in-2021).
Meanwhile 44% of households have a gun, and there are over 400,000,000 of them in civilian hands.
It appears that my home is markedly safer for a child than one with a swimming pool. |
Well we can agree on the fact that swimming pools may not be the best idea for households with young kids.
The question is whether having a gun in your home makes one's family safer, and the data says it does not.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...vidence-shows/
https://psmag.com/news/keeping-a-gun...g-killed-there
https://research.northeastern.edu/do...ake-you-safer/