Posted on 04/08/2010 5:00:57 AM PDT by marktwain
NSSF is second to none in its admiration for the United States Air Force. Yet when an Air Force article about gun safety misstates a statistic about firearms-related accidents, we believe it's our duty to point out the inaccuracy so that gun ownership continues to be rightly viewed as safe.
An otherwise very good article promoting firearm safety to Air Force personnel starts off by asking, "Did you know, every year more than 500 children die from accidental gunshot wounds?"
The figure is incorrect.
Firearms-related fatalities for children 14 and under are at historic lows, with 2007 figures--the most recent available--showing 75 unintentional fatalities. Even one fatal accident involving a child and a firearm is one too many, but 75 is certainly not 500. The misstated statistic belies the tremendous progress that has been made in reducing accidents. Consider that between 1996 and 2006 unintentional firearms fatalities for children declined by 61 percent.
We attribute the reduction in accidental fatalities—both among children and adults--to increased awareness of firearm safety due to programs like NSSF's Project ChildSafe and many other firearms safety initiatives, plus articles like the one appearing in the Air Force Print News Today.
To put into practice the article's firearm safety message, NSSF reminds Air Force law enforcement agencies that they may request a quantity of Project ChildSafe firearm safety kits, which include a cable-style gun lock and safety brochure. There is no cost for kits, which should be distributed to firearms owners. NSSF also makes available several firearm safety brochures and safety videos designed for viewing by adults and children. Learn about them here: www.nssf.org/safety.
children- with the new healthcare crap, “child” is anyone under 26.
The anti-gun crowd likes to include gang banger murders of anyone under 21, as “the gun death of a child”.......
The point of the exercise is to teach the students to think for themselves and to examine the bias of their sources. We take the Brady Bunch statistics and trace them back to their source and we compare the data against an unbiased source, like FBI crime statistics.
I have read a statistic somewhere that your child is more likely to accidentally drown in a pool than die from an accidental firearms discharge. No one’s talking about getting rid of pools.
What is the source of either figure?
People don't swim a couple of laps as the last resort against a run away government.
Liars! They did so on purpose. These “inetlligent” people can not tell me that they researched this. I know this LIE of an article well. They will say “Oh, oops, soory and thank you.” but their LIE of a message gets its play and their “oops” does not.
They do it on purpose...they have learned from LIbErals well.
An interesting statistic would be how many good people are alive because of self-defense and how many perps are now no longer a threat because of the same.
The perp being put down is a bigger plus than just the saved life of the shooter. You would also have to count the family members saved in the same instance and how many future lives may have been terminated or threatened by the now dead perp.
Sometimes it is just impossible to estimate the good that can come from one simple little action.
The source data for all this can be found at:
http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate10_sy.html
2006, United States
Unintentional Firearm Deaths and Rates per 100,000
All Races, Both Sexes, Ages 0 to 14
ICD-10 Codes: W32-W34
Number of
Deaths Population Crude
Rate Age-Adjusted
Rate**
54 60,652,932 0.09 0.09
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2489505/posts
The article confirms my figures, but gives much more, and very nice graph that shows what immense progress has been made.
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