How much percent of gun shots are not fatal in all of gun history.?

BigRichGuy

Mine wasn't.

Jerry H

About 3% of single handgun wounds are fatal. The rates for rifles, shotguns and multiple handgun wounds are much higher. Of handgun head wounds, about 15% are fatal. That's because the skull contains some of the toughest bone in the body. Handgun bullets frequently fail to penetrate it. (Also, the brain is somewhat tougher and can survive more trauma than most people give it credit for.)

Why are the shootings in the news so often fatal? For the same reason that automobile accidents reported in the news are often fatal. "It sells newspapers." "If it bleeds, it leads." News organizations report the remarkable and unusual, the better to attract eyeballs for their advertisers. Minor fender benders happen dozens of times a day, so they aren't news. Likewise minor injuries, with or without guns, most of which are never even reported. These days, even murders are often ignored by the news unless they involve children or mass killings.

Christopher H

I'm not sure what it is now but a few years ago the survival rate of attacks with a handgun in the US was 76%. This high percentage was credited with advances in modern medicine. This stat came out after a 3 year study that the ATF had commissioned a big university to do. They were trying to establish that if they could somehow wave a magic wand and make all handguns disappear, what would happen to the homicide rate.

Interestingly enough, the study concluded that while handgun assault would of course go down, the homicide rate would actually increase because criminals would simply saw off rifles and shotguns to shoot people with and the survival rate is much lower. The would also do things like run over victims with cars, throw them off roofs etc and you don't much survive those.

The ATF never brought it up again.

|â–’â–’Kebert Xelaâ–’â–’|

There is absolutely no way that you would ever get an accurate count on the amount of rounds fired in "all of gun history"

but I'd be willing to bet that 99.9999999999999999+% of all "gun shots" are not fatal.

Media reports the bad stuff.
It doesn't sell papers or grab viewers if some knuckle head was popping off rounds in his back yard and nobody was killed.
That's why you see a greater percentage of fatal wounds.

I don't know where you live though....90+% doesn't sound even close to what I hear about on the news.
I'm thinking you're dealing with some selective memory.

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