Re: 8 & 9 year old girls riding bicycles

On 12/25/2024 1:26 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 12/25/2024 4:53 AM, John B. wrote:

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I've mentioned numerous times that my family had guns in the house for
3 generations with no one being shoot. But reality apparently has no
bearing on what some people want to be true.

 I think there's no way to logically converse with people who think one or two anecdotes are more valid than reams of carefully gathered data.
 So much for science!
 

For actual numbers:
400 million civilian firearms with just under 20,000 firearm homicides per year, one per 20,000 firearms.
https://usafacts.org/data-projects/firearms-suicides
About 100 million bicycles
https://electronwheel.com/bike-facts-and-statistics/
for about 1300 deaths, one per 73,528 bicycles
https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics/bicycle-deaths/
Which is a lower rate, only 27% of the likelihood of death per bicycle as per firearm.
283,400,986 autos and light trucks in USA
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/automotive/how-many-cars-are-in-the-us.html
with 44,534 auto/ light truck deaths, one per 6363 vehicles.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm
That's over 3x (3.14) more dangerous per vehicle as per firearm.
For an anecdote, all four of my firearms have been oiled and cased, undisturbed in any way, for well over a month. Not one of them has jumped up and wrought mayhem. Not even a little bit.
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