Re: GUNS: Accidental Deaths

mark@unicorn.com
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 09:42:36 -0800 (PST)

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