Daily Kos on gun accidents this week

[philip964]

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One of my facebook anti's posted this. Apparently there were 50 ND's this week.

[K.Mooneyham]

Well, that sure seems like some very large number, doesn't it? Except for the fact that there is estimated to be somewhere between 250 and 300 MILLION firearms in the USA. A quick bit of calculator-fu tells me that 50 firearms is about .00002 percent of the firearms in this country, using the smaller estimate and assuming that none of them were repeat NDs. Now, I know that the figure of 250 million firearms can be parsed down in various ways, but even after doing that stuff, it still adds up to a lot of firearms were NOT negligently discharged this week. Not to make light of a lack of firearms safety, nor of those who got shot, but that number doesn't look very big anymore...however its such a wonderful bit of hype for the antis to spew around, I'm sure they're very proud of themselves.

[chasfm11]

A simple reply is "will you agree to condemn anything that has a higher accident/death rate than the NDs?" It will be a very long list.

[Topbuilder]

You could also say "You are getting your news from Daily Kos? You are getting liberal agenda, anti-gun information 100% of the time."