Someone came by searching for “TOO MANY PEOPLE DIE FROM GUNS ACCIDENT.”Accidental Firearms Death Rate If the annual total were one, that would be one too many. None the less, Americans are making remarkable progress at reducing the number of gun accidents. You can click on the chart on the left for a clearer view. You will see that 112 years ago, the fatal firearms accident rate was 3.6 per 100,000 population, three times the homicide rate. In 1904, the fatal accident rate was 3.4 per 100,000. A gun safety drive by a number of State Rifle and Pistol Clubs...