Playboypenguin
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JustFacts.com needs to recheck it's sources. The latest gallup polls and best estimates by the BATF have the percentage of households that own firearms as low as 35% in 1995. The NRA even estimated that these numbers are even lower today.JustFacts.com cites 49% of all households have firearms.
That still does not address how many people are exposed to firearms. Just because grampa has a shotgun in the closet does not mean much when the other five members of the family have never even seen it.
I remember reading an article in a Pink Pistols publication that stated the idea that you are "twice as likely to be homosexual than fire a gun" which cited the facts that many polls were showing that as few as 5% of all people reported actively using firearms. Which is not hard to believe at all.
Then take into account a full 3rd of the population receives medical care each year and those numbers start to really show how weak and arbitrary they are.
Your logic would indicate that running into a bumble bee is more physically dangerous to the average person than an encounter with a grizzly bear since bees kill more people each year.