Newsgroups: alt.politics.british,uk.politics,talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.guns
From: [m j p] at [austin.ibm.com]  (Michael J. Phelps)
Subject: Re: Part 1 of 3: The Case Against Gun Control
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1993 12:34:12 GMT


Heres some numbers from 1989 (the firearms number has dropped since):

falls    - 11,300
drowning -  5,300
fires    -  4,800
poison   -  4,400 (liquids and solids)
choking  -  3,200
firearms -  1,400
poison   -  1,000 (gas)

US population was about 240-250 million at the time.  The firearms number
has since dropped to about 1,200, while the population has risen to
250-260 million.

As a matter of fact, since 1932, the US population has doubled, while the
number of accidental deaths has dropped by about 54%, without any reported
drop in the percentage of citizens who own firearms.

Suprised? 

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