Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) numbers for 2020 show that accidental car deaths among children were 27 times higher than accidental gun deaths.
The Los Angeles Times editorial board suggests Congress mandate gun owners lock up their firearms. For gun owners who do not have a safe, the Times suggests an alternative trigger lock requirement.
A “gun safety” instructor for Michael Bloomberg-funded Moms Demand Action held a pistol by the tip of the barrel during a meeting with the League of Women Voters in Lewiston, Idaho.
Even as calendar year 2015 witnessed a surge in gun purchase background checks unequaled since the inception of such checks, it also saw a continued low number of accidental gun deaths.
A study on the post-Sandy Hook surge in gun sales suggests a correlation between such surges and higher accidental gun deaths.
Gun scholar John Lott discovered a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “coding error” which hid the fact that accidental gun deaths hit a record low in 2014.
On January 7, The Baltimore Sun gave President Obama kudos for issuing executive orders for gun control, but expressed their desire that he add another measure–a public registry of gun owners.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) final report on death statistics for 2013 shows there were 35,369 deaths from motor vehicle accidents versus 505 deaths from the accidental discharge of firearms.
