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Originally Posted by dc_dux
And while 1,500 accidental deaths/yr by guns may not represent a national epidemic, legal gun owners are still more likely to cause a tragic accidental death of a family member of friend than to use the weapon with deadly force against a potential criminal.
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Over two million gun owners use their guns to prevent violent or coercive crimes, last time I checked uniform crime statistics, it averaged to somewhere around once every 13 minutes. In well over 90% of those cases, no shots are fired because displaying a gun is enough to deter the crime. This only accounts for incidents that are reported to law enforcement, we can logically presume that the actual number is higher because not every incident is necessarily reported to the authorities (although I don't know by how much, and I am in no way qualified to estimate it.)