Re: GUNS: Accidental Deaths

From: mark@unicorn.com
Date: Thu Mar 04 1999 - 10:42:36 MST


Eric Ruud [ejruud@ucdavis.edu] wrote:
>If I carried a gun, as you seem
>to be suggesting I should as a law abiding citizen, my risk of dying by my
>own gun would probably be higher than me dying in the bathroom.

About 50% of US households have a gun; even if you double the number of accidental gun deaths to take account of that, there are still more people
killed in bathroom accidents than gun accidents.

    Mark



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