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Re:Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and La... by umvi on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:40PM (#21528555)
> How do you store and carry your weapon safely? How do you transport it? Who has access to it and the ammunition? It is a simple tool that kills tens of thousands of people a year

Unintentionally? I highly doubt that. I would guess the majority of the tens of thousands of deaths were the result of the gun owner intentionally pulling the trigger, not because they were bumbling around transporting it incorrectly, storing ammo incorrectly, etc.

According to this[1], only 500 people died in 2016 due to gun accidents. The rest were intentional.

[1] https://www.aftermath.com/content/accidental-shooting-deaths...

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Re:Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and La... by black_puppydog on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @03:14PM (#21528962)
You do realize that 500 gun deaths alone would make headlines in most other countries?
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Re:Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and La... by umvi on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @04:24PM (#21529762)
500 accidents in a country with gun rights and a population of over 300M is nothing. You have like a 1 in a million chance of dying by a gun accident. Even lower if you don't own or use guns. It's a non-problem.
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