Better not come near Washington state, then, where no training is required to carry concealed and not even a permit is required to carry open here. Gee, I wonder what is keeping the blood from running in the streets from all the huckaleros running around here with guns and no training?
No training in NYS either. Navy, you trust every person who carries a gun to not make a mistake? You don't know there are mishaps that kill or injure people? I see horrific handling skills by people who are self-proclaimed gun-knowledgeable persons all the time. I've seen NG's during classes. Gunsite has had so many accidental self-shootings during draw or re-holster that it's become a joke.
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According to the NSSF (
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- Hunting with firearms has an injury rate of 0.05 percent, which equates to about 1 injury per 2,000 participants.
- Over the last two decades, the number of unintentional fatalities involving firearms (excluding homicide and suicide) is down 58% to roughly 600 per year. That's 600 people who would disagree.
- Over the last two decades the number of unintentional firearm-related fatalities in the home decreased by 50% to roughly 400 per year.
- In 2000, there were 23,237 non-fatal injuries due to firearm-related accidents in the United States. That's 23,000 people who disagree.
- The NSSF found the reason for the large decrease in firearm-related accidents is education.
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Is it happening? Absolutely. Do we have our heads in the sand? Absolutely. Is having our head in the sand going to eventually destroy gun rights? Absolutely. I give gun rights two or three more generations and the little dweebs will have stamped it out.
