Sentence examples for firearm accident from inspiring English sources

Initially, Brazilian army officials called the shooting a "firearm accident".

According to the NRA's 2013 fact sheet on firearm safety, "Since 1930, the annual number of firearm accident deaths has decreased 81%, while the US population has more than doubled and the number of firearms has quintupled".

Another important aspect of firearm accidents is that a vast majority of victims do not die.

Instead, studies show that that a gun in the home creates more risk than benefit, and drives up occupants' chances for firearm accidents, suicide and intimate-partner homicide.

"If we can prevent one person from being killed or hurt from firearm accidents through the distribution of these free gun locks, then we have met our challenge," Hickman said in a statement Monday.

That was one of the many joking references to Mr. Cheney and his infamous firearms accident almost 21 months ago.

The deep hold that guns have on American culture also emerges in interviews with several other parents who lost children to firearms accidents.

Gun-lock giveaways have appeared to be a growing trend in the last two years, said Mr. Delfay, even though "firearms accidents in the home are at historically low levels".

In 2005, every nine hours a child or teenager in the United States was killed in a firearm-related accident or suicide.

Two youths in each group carried an ADHD-diagnosis, with one suicide victim dead by strangulation and one by a firearm, while both accident victims were traffic accidents.

Other than suicide, the causes of violent deaths in our study were homicides by firearms and accidents.