We have the most guns in the world......so of course we have more accidents, the same way the country with the most cars will have the most car accidents....
we had 320,000,000 million guns in private hands in 2013......
505 accidental gun deaths....
Car deaths ...about 35,000......
drownings.....over 3,000.....
You mean 586. So more guns equals more innocent deaths. Thanks for clearing that up.
And more cars equal more accidental car deaths...
Cars, Accidental deaths 2013......
35,369
More pools equal more drowning deaths....
Accidental drowning
.....3,391
Accidental gun deaths....
505....
I think the U.S. even has more gravity than the rest of the world...so more deaths by falling..right?
gravity....accidental falling deaths 2013...
30,208
For real perspective.....
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf
Here are the stats on some common types of death....it would be better to start a crusade to teach people how to walk upright...and save them from falling deaths...you would save more lives.....
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf
guns, drowning and poisoning....
If you cared about people....you would push to ban the following...
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf
Cars, Accidental deaths 2013......
35,369
Poisons...accidental deaths 2013...
.38,851
Alcohol...accidental deaths 2013..
.29,001
gravity....accidental falling deaths 2013...
30,208
Accidental drowning
.....3,391
Accidental exposure to smoke, fire and flames
.....2,760
Accidental gun deaths 2013......505
Accidental gun deaths of children under 14 in 2013....in a country with 74.2 million children in 2010...
Under 1 year old: 3
1-4 years old: 27
5-14 years old: 39
Total: 69 ( in a country of 320 million people)
Gun Suicide: 21,175
Non gun suicide: 19,974
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr63/nvsr63_09.pdf
Then by year accidental gun deaths going down according to CDC final statistics table 10 from 2010-2013...
2010...606
2011...591
2012...548
2013...505
So...accidental gun deaths have been coming down as more people own and carry guns for self defense....now 12.8 million people actually carry guns for self defense......on their person, and the accidental gun death rate is going down, not up....