The risk of having a gun in the home

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66. I did address it, I just didn't think I would need to show the math.

Since about half of American households have a firearm you would have about half of the population has access to a firearm. To be numerically conservative I will use 1/3 instead of 1/2.

That leaves 606 accidental gun deaths out of a population of 100 million. That would compare to an accidental poisoning rate of 11,000 per 100 million. 606 compared to 11K is still a much smaller number.

The point was that guns are way down on the list of accidental deaths.

Nobody has done it, but I would love to see a study of how many of the accidents gun deaths involved people with criminal backgrounds, either as victim or as shooter or as owner of the gun. I suspect that it would be a large percentage.