Post by Decatur on Aug 2, 2006 9:19:16 GMT -5
Shooting Safety Facts
National Safety Council figures show hunting to be one of the safest outdoor sports in the US.
Source: National Safety Council
Injury and Death Figures for 1991
Activity Number of Participants Number of Injuries Percent Injured
Baseball 15,400,000 321,806 2.090%
Bicycling 56,900,000 514,738 0.905%
Fishing 46,500,000 65,667 0.141%
Football 14,700,000 319,157 2.171%
Golf 23,200,000 24,224 0.104%
Hunting 18,500,000 1,475 0.008%
Soccer 11,200,000 101,946 0.910%
Swimming 70,500,000 65,757 0.093%
Tennis 18,800,000 22,507 0.120%
Injury and Death Figures for 1997- 98
Activity Number of Participants Number of Injuries Number of Deaths
Swimming 59,500,000 83,772 1,500
Bicycling 45,100,000 49,000 700
Hunting 15,400,000 880 92
Water is 19 times more dangerous to a child than a firearm. In 1996, 805 children died from accidental drowning and 42 from firearm accidents. Bathtubs are twice as dangerous to children as guns. Fire is 18 times more dangerous to children than guns. Cars are 57 times more dangerous. Household cleaners and poisons are twice as dangerous. -- Paul Craig Roberts, columnist
In 1999 there were eight-eight fatal firearms accidents involving children ages zero to fourteen. Five hundred children die in swimming pools each year.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
More than 96% of firearms fatalities in this nation are caused by intentional misuse.
During the Clinton administration, the prosecution of federal firearms violations declined by 44%.
President Clinton claimed that 500,000 felons, fugitives, and stalkers were prevented from buying guns under the Brady Act. However, his administration has failed to prosecute the vast majority of these unlawful attempts at firearm ownership.
Gun control advocates tout various numbers (most of which are grossly inaccurate) of children injured or killed by firearms. They fail to admit that the vast majority of these "children" are are legal adults, ages 18-19 and are gang members. In 1999, 89 percent of "child" firearms deaths were homicides; most of the rest were suicides. In New York City, 40 percent of teenage gunshot victims were shot during hours when they should have been in school. Ironically, almost all of these deaths are in urban inner cities which have very repressive gun laws.
The number of children killed in gun accidents is below 190 per year -- not the "12 kids a day" malarkey the gun control groups spout.
Gun crime is most prevalent in states and communities where firearm ownership is most restricted. On the other hand every year, 2.5 million crimes are prevented by the presence of a firearm (where permitted).
It wasn't the Million Mom March who wrote the "10 Commandments of Gun Safety" and it isn't Handgun Control that has taught 12 million grade school children to avoid guns and to tell an adult if they find one. Gun owners did that.
Isn't it interesting that education supposedly works for sex education, for drug abuse, for anger management, for all other areas, but if you ask self-appointed anti-gun experts, education does not work for gun safety!
Resources:
Guns, Freedom and Terrorism by Wayne LaPierre
National Center for Injury and Prevention Control <http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/>
National Safety Council figures show hunting to be one of the safest outdoor sports in the US.
Source: National Safety Council
Injury and Death Figures for 1991
Activity Number of Participants Number of Injuries Percent Injured
Baseball 15,400,000 321,806 2.090%
Bicycling 56,900,000 514,738 0.905%
Fishing 46,500,000 65,667 0.141%
Football 14,700,000 319,157 2.171%
Golf 23,200,000 24,224 0.104%
Hunting 18,500,000 1,475 0.008%
Soccer 11,200,000 101,946 0.910%
Swimming 70,500,000 65,757 0.093%
Tennis 18,800,000 22,507 0.120%
Injury and Death Figures for 1997- 98
Activity Number of Participants Number of Injuries Number of Deaths
Swimming 59,500,000 83,772 1,500
Bicycling 45,100,000 49,000 700
Hunting 15,400,000 880 92
Water is 19 times more dangerous to a child than a firearm. In 1996, 805 children died from accidental drowning and 42 from firearm accidents. Bathtubs are twice as dangerous to children as guns. Fire is 18 times more dangerous to children than guns. Cars are 57 times more dangerous. Household cleaners and poisons are twice as dangerous. -- Paul Craig Roberts, columnist
In 1999 there were eight-eight fatal firearms accidents involving children ages zero to fourteen. Five hundred children die in swimming pools each year.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
More than 96% of firearms fatalities in this nation are caused by intentional misuse.
During the Clinton administration, the prosecution of federal firearms violations declined by 44%.
President Clinton claimed that 500,000 felons, fugitives, and stalkers were prevented from buying guns under the Brady Act. However, his administration has failed to prosecute the vast majority of these unlawful attempts at firearm ownership.
Gun control advocates tout various numbers (most of which are grossly inaccurate) of children injured or killed by firearms. They fail to admit that the vast majority of these "children" are are legal adults, ages 18-19 and are gang members. In 1999, 89 percent of "child" firearms deaths were homicides; most of the rest were suicides. In New York City, 40 percent of teenage gunshot victims were shot during hours when they should have been in school. Ironically, almost all of these deaths are in urban inner cities which have very repressive gun laws.
The number of children killed in gun accidents is below 190 per year -- not the "12 kids a day" malarkey the gun control groups spout.
Gun crime is most prevalent in states and communities where firearm ownership is most restricted. On the other hand every year, 2.5 million crimes are prevented by the presence of a firearm (where permitted).
It wasn't the Million Mom March who wrote the "10 Commandments of Gun Safety" and it isn't Handgun Control that has taught 12 million grade school children to avoid guns and to tell an adult if they find one. Gun owners did that.
Isn't it interesting that education supposedly works for sex education, for drug abuse, for anger management, for all other areas, but if you ask self-appointed anti-gun experts, education does not work for gun safety!
Resources:
Guns, Freedom and Terrorism by Wayne LaPierre
National Center for Injury and Prevention Control <http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/>
