High Gun Sales, Low Gun Accident Rates

The National Safety Council has released new statistics related to gun safety. The results might surprise you.

According to 2015 statics in the group’s “Injury Facts” report, there were 489 accidental gun deaths. The Washington Examiner reports that record-keeping on these types of accidents began in 1903. The 2015 data s the lowest since that original date. The rate of accidental gun deaths also dropped 17 percent in one year. 146,571 accidental deaths were listed from all other causes.

The decrease came at the same time that a record number of gun sales were being processed. (See “Background Checks and Concealed Carry Up Significantly in 2016”.) The FBI reports that in 2015 more than 23 million guns were sold. That was a record-breaking year until 2016 surged to even higher numbers of more than 27 million guns sold that year.

So…record-breaking numbers of guns being sold and gun accidental deaths at an all-time low. Hmmm. Do you suppose we will ever see a mainstream media report from a journalist announcing that guns aren’t the problem? Probably not, but when armed citizens are also armed with facts, that’s the most powerful combination. The Washington Examiner reports that the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and other organizations are promoting gun safety and that perhaps those efforts are paying off. We strongly support safe gun handling and we hope that the safety education campaigns are paying off. Keep shooting and keep on being safe. And know the numbers. Because the mainstream media will not readily tell you things like this.

Want to take a guess on what the number one cause of unintentional death in the United States was? Unintentional poisoning, which they also use to mean drug overdoses. IF you’re a regular reader of Guns Today, you already knew that. Read “Do Guns Kill More People Than Heroin?”, which we published three months ago.