# Another deadly shooting **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 10, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-deadly-shooting/690488 "2014-06-10T18:04:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 37
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-deadly-shooting/690488/37 "2014-06-10T20:03:11Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > The other thing is that we don’t accept risk levels we used to accept, just in general. Cars have gotten safer, vaccines have reduced the risks from childhood diseases, playground equipment has gotten safer, workplaces have gotten safer, and so forth. > > The fact that gun deaths have stayed in a fairly tight range for decades says that guns haven’t gotten with the program here. Not quite. To show this, you’d have to isolate unintentional firearm related death. Homicide and suicide would need to be omitted to get information on the safety of the gun itself. 1991: 1441 2001: 802 2010: 606 A 24% drop in the last 10 years, and a 58% drop in the last 20 years using 2010 data. [Pulled from here (pdf)](http://www.nssf.org/PDF/research/IIR_InjuryStatistics2013.pdf). I did verify the 2001 and 2010 numbers at the [CDC site here.](http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/dataRestriction_inj.html) but I couldn’t find the source of the 1991 figure. At any rate, at least by this measure which is not an all definitive - firearms themselves have gotten safer. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-deadly-shooting/690488)._