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With Thursday’s shooting at Va. Tech I wonder if the odds of encountering a little old lady legally possessing three firearms would be greater or less than a law enforcement officer becoming a firearms fatality.

According to Data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund http://www.nleomf.org/
in the US, Firearm related officer fatalities comparing this year thru December 10, 2011 to December 10, 2010 are UP 13%.
That’s down considerably from 1973’s high of 156 but recent years are worrisome.
In 2010, firearm-related fatalities climbed to 61 line of duty deaths, 24 percent higher than in 2009 when 49 officers were killed & 2009 saw a disturbing 22 percent rise in the number of officers shot and killed from 2008.

In Canada over the same time frame 2008 thru December 10, 2011 there has been one firearms related fatality, Constable Vu Pham was shot and killed while making a traffic stop in a rural area near Leadbury, Ontario. http://canada.odmp.org/year.php