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[Gawdzilla Sama]

ERs, mortuaries, both come to mind.

Well, if by ‘reckless’ you mean ‘shooting someone’, I’ll have a lash.

There are an average of 36 000 gun deaths per year in the US. Obviously, not all of those are reckless - some of them are deliberate, planned shootings. However, we’ll be as generous as possible, so let’s assume that all of them are reckless and round it up to 40 000, just to make the maths easier.

But that 40 000 is just deaths. Some shootings clearly don’t result in death, so let’s arbitrarily bump it up to 100 000. We’ll call all of those reckless as well, to account for the I-didn’t-know-it-was-loaded idiots and the people who accidentally shoot themselves in the foot while fondling their guns.

There are, very roughly, 400 000 000 firearms in the hand of private individual in the US. Assuming an average of four weapons per gun owner, that means 100 000 000 people in the US have at least one firearm of some sort (I’ve read that it’s more, but again, I’m being generous).

So, we’ve got 100 000 instances of reckless behaviour spread out among 100 000 000 gun owners. That means one out of every thousand gun owners has, at some point in any given year, behaved recklessly with a gun. So, at most, .001% of gun owners are reckless.

Again, this assumes that ALL shoots, fatal and otherwise are the result of reckless behaviour.

Boru

No, it means that in those cases reckless behaviour resulted in death or bodily injury and THE CAUSE OF THE SHOOTING WAS CORRECTLY REPORTED. My cousins would never admit that a gun was improperly stored even though they brag that "the government don't have no rules in my house!"

BTW: The End Family Fire site lists eight children a day shot, for 2,920 kids a year. (I don't know what that would be in metric.) That is only events where the owner of the gun lived in the house where the child was shot.