re insane gun toting wackos unite in article heimdall sdrc com crrob sony sdrc com rob davis writes do you know how many deaths each year are caused by self inflicted gun shot wounds by people wearing thigh holsters no but i have several other breakdowns of accidental shootings i ve never seen one that specifically provides the info that davis insists that he has so i d love to have a cite if you fall for example and land on the handgun or cause a sudden blow the gun will discharge wrong there s one gun design where that can happen and it is supposed to be carried with the hammer over an unloaded chamber cocking the gun turns the cylinder so that a loaded cylinder is under the hammer in other words it can be usefully carried in a safe manner other handgun designs don t have that property if their trigger isn t pulled the hammer can t hit the firing pin the number of people killed in this manner far outweighs the number of deaths caused by animal attacks or wacko attacks combined the breakdowns that i do have include the above category from them i can safely say that if davis is right in all of his claims a large negative number of people are killed by animals because we know that the number of killings by wackos is reasonably large and that the number of accidents due to gun failures which is a superset of the described circumstance is near zero i can find the figures if you don t believe me please do include a cite for those of us who like looking at context make sure that your source excludes other types of accidents and suicides that are misreported gun cleaning accident is police speak for the family needs the insurance money andy
