I have a question about gun control for my debate. Details inside.?

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Ok. 1st off, I would like ya'll to know that I am anti-gun control, but I have to be prepared to defend the pro gun control side for debate. One of my contentions is that with the elimination of handguns, all accidental deaths due to handguns would be eliminated. Does anyone know a scenario where an accidental death is caused by a handgun, or a statistic in my favor, because as we all know, the "accidental death" point is kind of in favor of the con side.

Thanks for your help,
Audrey.
1. Don't bash me. I told you, I don't believe this way at all.

2. With all due respects, what's your problem, the idiot who goes, "I'm just here for the points."

3. I understand the "two kids playing around with their dad's gun" situation, and that definitely the kind of thing I was going for, but I was kinda hoping for a more specific case.

Thanks,
Audrey.
 
Audrey

You can compare the accidental deaths that occurr on a daily basis here in the U.S. and find the numbers mind bogling.

Accidental handgun deaths are a minute statistic compare too the normal accidental deaths occurring daily.

The CDC reports a 7% increase in unintentional injury deaths in the U.S. from 1999 to 2004. Such deaths are the top killer before age 45.

A total of 625,328 people in the U.S. died of unintended injuries during the years studied.

The top causes of unintentional injury deaths are traffic accidents, poisoning (mainly drug-related), falls, and suffocation.

The unintentional injury death rate was more than twice as high for men as for women (50.8 deaths per 100,000 men, compared with 23.1 deaths per 100,000 women).

The death statistics, which are based on death certificates, show no nationwide change in the rates of traffic deaths.

Poisoning deaths may be increasing, notes the CDC, citing previous research.

Accidental Deaths Among States
New Mexico has the nation's highest rate of unintentional injury deaths, and Massachusetts has the lowest rate, according to the CDC.

Here's how the states and Washington, D.C., ranked in the annual average of unintentional deaths per 100,000 people from 1999 to 2004. Those with the same annual average received the same rank.

New Mexico: 60.9
Alaska: 58.6
Mississippi: 58.1
Montana and Wyoming: 53.1
Alabama and Kentucky: 49.7
Tennessee: 49.3
South Carolina: 48.9
West Virginia: 48.7
Oklahoma: 48.1
Louisiana: 47.8
Arkansas: 47.4
Arizona: 47.2
South Dakota: 46.2
Idaho and North Carolina: 44.7
Missouri: 44.3
Georgia: 42.5
Colorado: 41.7
Florida and Nevada: 40.7
Kansas: 39.8
Texas: 39.1
Wisconsin: 38.7
Nebraska: 37.6
Oregon: 37
Vermont: 36.9
North Dakota: 36.6
Indiana and Pennsylvania: 36.2
Delaware: 35.9
Washington: 35.8
Minnesota and Washington, D.C.: 35.6
Maine: 35.5
Virginia: 35.3
Iowa and Utah: 33.8
Ohio: 33.2
Michigan: 32.8
Illinois: 32.7
Connecticut: 31.4
New Hampshire: 29.6
Hawaii: 29.1
California: 28.5
New Jersey: 27.2
Maryland: 25.4
Rhode Island: 24.7
New York: 23.8
Massachusetts: 20.4
The federal government has set a goal of no more than 17.5 unintentional injury deaths per 100,000 people by 2010.

That's far below the nation's 2004 rate of 37.7 unintentional injury deaths per 100,000 people.

Hope I helped this is a powerful arguement
 
The most common scenario that I see quoted, although it is rare, is two kids playing around with their dad's gun and it accidentally discharges shooting one of them.
 
It's not the gun's fault that the shooter is aiming it at a person or something that shouldn't be shot.

In my opinion everyone that wants a gun should take hunter safty or some class that teaches people how to use guns in the right way.

accidental death is when you shoot at a deer and the wind kicks it into a tree. Even though it was a clear shot when you put the dot on the deer's heart. (yes you can shoot a deer with a hand gun my dad did but it's unlikly that hunters us it)

The so called accidental deaths are called suicides or taking your pain off the shoulders and putting it in a bullet.
 
It's all really a moot point. To remove the accidental shooting scenario in it's entirety, you would have to remove ALL guns from the United States. Until that time, it's on. You could remove a good percentage of them then you have the die hards and the really bad people that need them to feel I don't know.... ummm.... complete!

So until you may remove all the guns- I see the whole thing as a fantasy. Good Luck!
 
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