# Another deadly shooting

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-deadly-shooting/690488/64 "2014-06-11T13:03:49Z")

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> [@Bone](#):
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> **Your claim was that guns haven’t gotten safer. That’s false.** There have been many safety improvements to guns over time. Accidental deaths from guns have gone down dramatically over the last 20 years.

If gun deaths have plateaued from 2000 until now, and gun homicides have gone down from 2000 until now, how can gun accidents have also gone down automatically from 2000 until now? What category of gun death am I missing here has gone up to balance the other two categories going down?

1. Death by accident
2. Death on purpose
3. ???

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