Do statistics support gun control?
It is appropriate here to remind ourselves that crime and gun accidents have been falling. The gun controllers have an interest in making people believe that Columbine and like incidents are common and that every day toddlers are shooting fellow toddlers with the guns their parents leave around the house. Not so. If we judge how dangerous things are by how many kids are killed a year, we d better outlaw swimming pools and five-gallon buckets. According to the National Safety Council (NSC), each year many more kids die from drowning than from being shot. Gun accidents involving children fell from 530 in 1970 to 181 in 1995, a drop of about two-thirds. Unintentional deaths from firearms for all ages fell by 18 percent from 1997 to 1998. All deaths from firearms fell from 1.2 per 100,000 of population in 1970 to 0.5 in 1996. With gun ownership at an all-time high, gun safety is rapidly heading in the right direction. Crime is also falling; there are many reasons for this, the primary ones
