Fatal gun accidents involving children also fell significantly, from 495 in 1975 to fewer than 250 in 1995. .
Many Americans have also had the idea that one child is killed everyday in a gun accident instilled in their brains courtesy of the media. This claim is absolutely false. In America, when you become 18 years of age you are no longer a child, you are an adult. However, gun control groups include "children" up to age 19 and in some cases up to age 24 in their studies to inflate the number of "child" gun accidents, as was done here. The fact of the matter is, is that each year 10 times the number of children die as a result of drowning in residential swimming pools as opposed to the number of children who die in fatal gun accidents. To put perspective on this, there are only about 5 million households with swimming pools, compared to at least 43 million with guns (a figure derived from the National Safety Council in 2000). Therefore, the risk of a fatal accident among children is well over 100 times higher for swimming pools than for guns. .
Deaths due to fatal gun accidents happen less often than almost any other type of accidental death, yet they often receive the most national attention. Subsequently, politicians demand mandatory firearms safety classes for all gun owners (which is fine), yet even more lives could be saved by demanding the same type of mandatory safety .
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classes for people who have pools. The government constantly passes new laws prohibiting certain types of guns, yet homeowners are entitled to have any type of pool that they want. As a result of the bad rap that media hype has given firearms, politicians have jumped on the "bandwagon" and started writing and imposing laws such as those mentioned above. If the government is going to have such control of guns, what's next? Swimming pools perhaps.
Not only does the government want you to believe that guns are what's killing our nation's children, it wants you to fall into the myth and misrepresentation that has many people believing that most murders are committed by normal, everyday people; and it does.