Ah the old car thing again. Adorable. People use cars daily. Most don't use guns at all.
Give me your lives saved.
Idiots shooting themselves is always fun.
An Accidental Shooting in a Missouri Supermarket Shows Risks of New Law
accidental shootings are just that accidents.
and accidental shootings kill far far fewer people than car accidents, boating accidents, drowning, or falling
- Since 1903, the earliest year of data available, the per capita rate of gun accident deaths has decreased 94 percent, from 3.1 to 0.18 deaths per 100,000 population.[1]
- Over the last 20 years, annual numbers of gun accident deaths have decreased by more than half.[2]Concurrently, Americans have acquired over 150 million new guns and today own approximately 350 million guns, an all-time high.[3]
- Guns are involved in 0.4 percent of accidental deaths among the total population and 1.3 percent among children.[4] Today, the odds are more than a million to one against a child in the U.S. dying in a gun accident.
What is our rate compared to the U.K.?
Doesn't matter.
We are not the UK and there are many more variables than just guns between our countries.
BUT as I have told you the murder rate in the UK in 1950 was .8 per 100000
The UK murder rate in 2010 was 1.14 per 100000
The murder rate AFTER all their gun laws, bans and confiscations is higher not lower
The murder rate in the US in 1950 was 4.6 per 100000 in 2010 it was 4.8 per 100000 and we have more guns in more hands than we did in 1950
So it seems to me that gun laws, bans and confiscations do nothing to lower the murder rate