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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
The "accidental shootings" is negligible and has no real place in this discussion. When we're talking about people whose job it is to protect others, then for sure there are more lives saved by arming people than there are lives lost.
3,695 unintentional gun deaths between 2010-2016 in the US. So roughly 670 per year. Wouldn't say negligible.
https://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc...ction_inj.html
Edit: Hm seems to differ quite a bit from Poop's number, where'd you see that? Those 3695 were listed under "unintentional", dunno if same as accidental.
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