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And 53 times more likely to die in an automobile accident


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How many times does a car succesfully serve it's purpose. How many times does a concealed weapon serve it's intended purpose. The answer to the first question is a lot, the answer to the second is probably never.


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Fact: In 2001, there were only 65 accidental gun deaths for children under age 13. About 11 times as many children die from drowning.


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How many times is a child handling a gun? How many times is a child swimming? The ratio of deaths to times the child participated in the said acticity will be much much greater for guns.


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Fact: In 1993, there were 1,334 drownings and 528 firearm-related accidental deaths from ages 0-19. Firearms outnumber pools by a factor of over 30:1. Thus, the risk of drowning in a pool is nearly 100 times higher than from a firearm-related accident for everyone, and nearly 500 times for ages 0-5.


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See above. This is a pretty stupid point by the way. It doesn't matter the total number of guns, it matters how many times a child is in direct contact with a gun. And oyu said the information regarding anti gun protests was biased...

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Fact: Medical mistakes kill 400,000 people per year - about one fully loaded jumbo jet per day - or about 286 times the rate of all accidental firearm deaths. This translates into 1 in 6 doctors causing an accidental death, and 1 in 56,666 gun owners doing the same.


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And how many times is a gun directly responsible for saving a life. How many times does modern medicine save a life? Great point. Guns are safer than doctors. That's good stuff.

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Fact: Around 2,000 patients each year - six per day - are accidentally killed or injured in hospitals by registered nurses.



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see above..

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Fact: Less than 1% of all gun homicides involve innocent bystanders.



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And what percentage of innocent bystanders are saved by concealed weapons? I would say a save bet is zero. In other words there are infinitely more innocent bystanders killed by concealed weapons than saved by concealed weapons. See I can spin the facts in my favor too....

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Fact: About 11% of police shootings kill an innocent person - about 2% of shootings by citizens kill an innocent person. The odds of a defensive gun user killing an innocent person are less than 1 in 26,000.116 And that is with citizens using guns to prevent crimes almost 2,500,000 times every year.


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Once again this is just a function of the total number of people carrying concealed weapons and the total number of cops with guns. Cops are also constantly in situations where they are using their guns.