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Something is wrong with these numbers

Posted by simonov on 27 February 2007

The National Safety Council reports in their 2007 “Injury Facts” that accidental firearms-related deaths continue to decline even as gun ownership rises in the US.

How can that be? Doesn’t increased access to guns automatically lead to a rise in firearms-related death, injury and criminal mayhem? That’s what the Brady Center, the VPC and the entire US mass media have been saying for years. They wouldn’t lie to us, would they?

The report, based on figures from the CDC, shows a 40 percent decrease in accidental firearm-related fatalities over a 10-year period ending in 2005. The report also shows firearm-related accidents involving children ages 14 and under declined 69 percent between 1995 and 2003.

The council’s most recent statistics show 109,277 U.S. residents died in accidents of all types in 2005. Less than 1 percent involved firearms. The most common deadly accidents involved motor vehicles, poisonings and falls, claiming 75 percent of all accidental deaths.

I bet even a guntard will be surprised to learn that according to the CDC there were 730 (fewer than a thousand, in a country of 80 million gun owners with over 200 million firearms!) accidental firearm-related fatalities in 2005, down from 750 reported in 2004. These sorts of sloppy statistics can only be explained by seekrit infiltration of the CDC by the NRA’s team of crack counter-intelligence operatives.

The evil baby-killing, seal-clubbing National Shooting Sports Foundation is claiming that increased education and safety awareness among shooters is responsible for the decline in accidental deaths. Pshaw! They would say that, wouldn’t they? Everyone knows education just makes people more curious and interested in maiming themselves and their loved ones with guns! Willful ignorance is always a much safer policy.

Clearly, the National Safety Council and the CDC have their heads up their ass and need to consult the Brady Center and the VPC to get their story right.

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