Category Archives: GUN NUMBERS

Someone came by searching for “ratio of accidental gun deaths to self defense homicides.” Since we are going there, I may as well add gun related homicides and give the complete picture. From the the CDC graphic on the right, … Continue reading →

Someone stopped by searching for “gun ownership declining.” Which seems a popular fiction among those on the left, these days. Of course, in order to refute that it is necessary to “lay down some terms.” Terms to define what we … Continue reading →

Someone came by searching for an old joke, “compare death rate doctors and guns.” The fact is the old joke is a joke – but there is no comparison between the facts and the funnies. So let’s look at the … Continue reading →

Someones came by searching for several variants of “how many people were killed by guns in 2012?” The official homicide statistics will not be out until October, 2013, and the accidental death statistics will not be released until sometime in … Continue reading →

Someone stopped by searching for “how many gun accidents with children in the past week.” That depends on several things, starting with what ages you consider someone to be a child. Some of the anti-gun propaganda has 65 as the … Continue reading →

The FBI reported a total of 2,209,407 background checks for March, 2013, up almost a half million checks compared to 2012′s record 1,727,821 As of March 31, 2013, the FBI reported 7,014,240 background checks in the first three months of … Continue reading →

Someone came by searching for “number of American gun cleaning accidents year.” While the CDC will eventually tell you how many people died in firearms accidents, they do not keep the detailed records (or for low volume events give the … Continue reading →

The Blaze has a nice writeup on the gun industry, including the factoid that the gun industry employs twice as many people and makes twice the contribution to the economy as General Motors North American operations. While those numbers are … Continue reading →

Someone stopped by searching for “how many people died from dogs compared to assault weapons each year.” Assuming first that the search was for “How many people died from dog attacks compared to assault weapons each year:” And assuming second … Continue reading →