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41,650 deaths related to motor vehicle accidents,
17,229 in falls at home and on the job,
3,306 from water in drowning,
19,457 from poisoning, in the same year,
3,369 due to fire or burns,
3,200 due to choking, and
900 from guns
Note that the top category of vehicle accidents is 45 times greater than the bottom
category of guns. Should we outlaw cars, and ladders?
If guns are so dangerous, why is it like 18 or so times more likely to die from a fall? lol
http://www.lindleyonline.com/gunstats/stats.htm
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Your quotes are about "accidental" deaths. The thing is, guns kill a lot more people in an intentional setting...and in lots of these cases, the perpetrators of the violence either would not or could not commit their acts of violence without guns...like the bar fight that escalates into a shooting -- no guns and a few guys wind up in the hospital for bruises and scrapes, with guns and one or more people are dead...or situations like VaTech -- no guns and maybe he goes into a fit of rage with a baseball bat or a sword or something, and maybe he even offs a couple people...but no way he kills 32 before killing himself. This is the danger I find much more relevant about guns...the ease with which situations that would very likely NOT result in death without guns ends up resulting in death with them.
Sure, analyzing purely accidental gun deaths paints a picture that they're not one of the more dangerous things around. But analyzing how many less people would die of homicide without regular, easy access to guns...that's a MUCH different story.