Guns Reduce Accidents and Other Fascinating Facts and Figures
To Amaze Your Friends
By Greg Perry
Only a few trends are encouraging these days:
Computer prices decrease as their computer power increases. That’s great.
Ultra-cool flat-screen, wall-mounted televisions are more abundant and less costly than ever. Glad I put off buying one before now.
Hollywood incomes are dropping like rocks since the strike. Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people.
Some good trends are related to health and safety. You hear about most of them. As you know, heart attack victims are surviving far longer than ever. My father’s triple bypass in 1995 seems almost like a non-event today as he drives his truck to his rental houses daily to do what needs to be done (at age 72). Stroke deaths dropped an astounding 63% from 1970 to 2002.
A Trend That Hits a Bull's-Eye
One trend related to health and safety that you may not know about is this: firearm-related accidents have steadily decreased since such record keeping began in 1903. Far more important and astounding is that for the past 10 years this drop was extra dramatic.
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