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<blockquote data-quote="Rod Snell" data-source="post: 2493334" data-attributes="member: 796"><p>As we say in hunter safety, even one death or injury due to carelessness with a firearm is a tragedy, and we are here to help you avoid that tragedy. HOWEVER, the use of "a lot" is a misleading emotional hook.</p><p>The facts are that the shooting sports are among the safest of sports, producing fewer trips to the emergency room than even the racket sports, and high school contact sports kill and cripple more each year by far, proportionate to the number of participants. Those of us who have spent decades in safety education say "it works!"</p><p></p><p>A standard tactic of anti-gunners is to stack the deck by including criminal gun use and suicides along with negligent use in the "gun safety problem." For example the US figures include suicides, but the "peaceful" Japanese figures EXCLUDE SUICIDES BECAUSE THEY DON'T USE GUNS!!! Put in the suicides, and the Japanese figures are higher than ours!</p><p>If you take the US figures for NEGLIGENT MISUSE OF GUNS as the basis for banning them, then cars and bathtubs would need to be banned first, as they kill and maim many times more.</p><p></p><p>The safety figures I quoted are published each year, and are available through the education people at the Department of Wildlife.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rod Snell, post: 2493334, member: 796"] As we say in hunter safety, even one death or injury due to carelessness with a firearm is a tragedy, and we are here to help you avoid that tragedy. HOWEVER, the use of "a lot" is a misleading emotional hook. The facts are that the shooting sports are among the safest of sports, producing fewer trips to the emergency room than even the racket sports, and high school contact sports kill and cripple more each year by far, proportionate to the number of participants. Those of us who have spent decades in safety education say "it works!" A standard tactic of anti-gunners is to stack the deck by including criminal gun use and suicides along with negligent use in the "gun safety problem." For example the US figures include suicides, but the "peaceful" Japanese figures EXCLUDE SUICIDES BECAUSE THEY DON'T USE GUNS!!! Put in the suicides, and the Japanese figures are higher than ours! If you take the US figures for NEGLIGENT MISUSE OF GUNS as the basis for banning them, then cars and bathtubs would need to be banned first, as they kill and maim many times more. The safety figures I quoted are published each year, and are available through the education people at the Department of Wildlife. [/QUOTE]
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