Surprising findings from a comprehensive report on gun violence.

[jimmy the one]

3. reflected glory due guncontrol states

report: Accidents are down, too: “Unintentional firearm-related deaths have steadily declined during the past century. The number of unintentional deaths due to firearm-related incidents accounted for less than 1 percent of all unintentional fatalities in 2010.”

Thanks in larger part to guncontrol states with safe storage laws (&/or less guns per capita), which tend to have much lower accidental firearm death & injury rates than states with no such laws, or weak such laws, or higher gunownership rates.

GStormCloud: “Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was 'used' by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies.”

This is apparently true, on a small percent basis, something like 12% of crime victims who pull a gun in defense are injured, while ~15% of more compliant crime victims are injured when they do not pull a gun. However, when injury IS sustained during the crime, those who pulled a gun in self defense are injured far more seriously & costly, than the more compliant victims -- think bruised shoulder vs bullet in kneecap.
As well, gunowner crime victims who pull out a gun to defend themselves, are far more prone to having their gun stolen during that very crime, than those who do not have guns on them.