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pipoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-31-11 11:50 AM
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51. No actually
Edited on Mon Jan-31-11 11:55 AM by pipoman
in considering accidents of children 0-14, there are around 15 times MORE kids die from accidental drownings than gun accidents (in 2007, 65 gun deaths vs. 739 drownings). As for rates, the Freakonomics link in the OP states the rate of accidental child deaths with firearms is 1 on over 1,000,000, the rate for residential swimming pools is 1 in around 11,000, or 90 times more likely.

If you look at all ages, there were, in 2007, 3,443 accidental drownings, as compared with 613 accidental shooting fatalities.
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