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Originally Posted by Moonduck
Yes, greater availablility of guns will also have a corrospondignly greater incidence of gun-related accidents (can't have gun-related accidents sans guns), but the numbers on gun-related accidents are ever so much lower than so many other commonplace, and even rare, occurrences as to be insignificant (except for those involved of course).
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I've heard statistics that 25000 people per year are injured by shopping carts, 18000 by metal key-rings, and almost 10000 by improperly installed plumbing. in the 1990's, an average of 43000 people per year were killed in motor vehicle accidents.