Some numbers to think about

[internet troll]

Food for thought. I was Just thinking about different stats and relating them to guns. Most of the stats I am posting are from 2001 because that was the easiest year to get everything I was looking for. I mainly used two sites and what I am posting is by no means scientific on my part, just observations.

Basically what I get from the following, guns get the most press, but there are lot more things that are realistic threats to the average American than guns in the hands of honest citizens. Not to mention that while guns double as a sport, they have practical applications such as a source of food, and of course self defense.

The two sites I used for info.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5307a1.htm
http://www.sportssafety.org/sports-injury-facts/

In 2001 there were

802 unintentional firearm fatalities.
8741 unintentional firearm non fatalities
Total 9543 total unintentional firearms related injuries/fatalities.
So honest gun owners were responsible for 9543 of the 29.7 million visits to the hospital that year.

Compare that to the:
3.5 million children 14 and under receiving treatment for sports related injuries
and the:

99,722 gymnastic injuries
680,307 basketball injuries
170,902 baseball injuries
118,354 softball injuries
413, 620 football injuries
163,000 soccer injuries
These 6 sports were responsible for 1,645,905 unintentional injuries. A lot more than the 9543 unintentional fire arm injuries that year.
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A few more numbers for 2001 all of the following are unintentional injuries.

fatal non fatal
firearms 802 8741
machinery 648 298859
motor vehicle 33396 2959859
dog bite 25 365846
poisoning 14078 519164
struck by 898 4610361
or against
something

Also note that I am only counting non intentional firearms injuries in my numbers, not intentional firearm injuries because I am trying to draw parallels between honest gun owners and honest citizens partaking in all the other events listed above.