The fatal accident rate in the United States involving firearms is at its lowest level since 1903. This accident rate has declined almost 40 percent in the past 25 years alone and the decline in fatal firearm accidents has occurred in a century which has seen a four hundred percent increase in the number of firearms in circulation in the United States.
My question: Is the above statement true or false?
I don't know. I wouldn't be surprised. But how is anyone supposed to prove it? How many of us have access to accident reports from 1903? Or even today?
------------------ "When we turn our back on our principles, we stop being human." -- Janeway, "Equinox"
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
The problem isn't so much accidents anymore, it's the Charles Joseph Whitman thing. He was the first one to go on a "shot anything that moves spree", now it's becoming common.