Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
"ABC News' extremely misleading report on dangers of guns in homes: Instead of asking neighbors if they own guns, ask them if a gang member lives there."
ABC News' estimates that 1.7 million unsecured guns are in homes around the country. Something on the order of 300 small children are killed by accidental gunfire every year. While that's far too many, it represents a number so small that our calculator returned this percentagefigure 1.764705882352941e-4 Weknow that means you must move the decimal point 4 points to the left. .000176, or 17 ten thousands of one percent is pretty close. (It yields back 248.2 when you apply the percentage to 1.7 million). We think that's precisely how ABC got their number; by backtracking CDC's and FBI's statistics. 1.7 million sounds sensational. .000176 sounds like a number you would not associate as being problematic. Murders committed by teens on teens are more common than accidents, but gang bangers and drug dealers don't make good press. After all, "its for the children". More coming on this subject.