I was browsing around the NRA-ILA site the other day and came across an article about Firearm Safety in America in 2006 and I would like to share some interesting facts:

• Firearm accident deaths have been decreasing for decades. Since 1930, their annual number has decreased 77%, while the U.S. population has more than doubled and the number of firearms has quintupled. Among children, such deaths have decreased 90% since 1975.
• Firearm accident deaths are at an all-time annual low, nationally and among children, while the U.S. population is at an all-time high. In 2003, there were 762 such deaths nationally, including 56 among children. Today, the odds are more than a million to one against a child in the U.S. dying from a firearm accident.
• The firearm accident death rate is at an all-time annual low, 0.25 per 100,000 population, down 93% since the all-time high in 1904.
• Firearms are involved in 1% of all deaths, and 1% of all deaths among children. Deaths involving firearms have decreased 24% since 1993.
• Firearms are involved in 0.65% of accidental deaths nationally, and in 1% among children. Most accidental deaths involve, or are due to, motor vehicles (40%), poisoning (17%), falls (15%), suffocation (5%), drowning (3%), fires (3%), medical mistakes (2%), environmental factors (1%), and bicycles and tricycles (1%). Among children: motor vehicles (45%), suffocation (16%), drowning (15%), fires (9%), bicycles and tricycles (2%), poisoning (2%), falls (2%), environmental factors (2%), and medical mistakes (1%).

If you want to read this entire article go here (http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?id=120)

It's good to know that education about firearms has become increasingly better.  I myself have participated in a hunter's safety program and learned a few things about firearms that I would have never considered having not attended the class. 

 The biggest reward, because of information and research like this, is that Politicians who advocate strict Gun Control or right to carry laws will have a much more difficult time passing legislation.