Accidents or suicides? I ask that in seriousness -- I'm not sure if suicides are classified as accidents but it wouldn't surprise me and in that case the numbers would be badly skewed due to democrat governance and ccp virus lockdowns.
TL;DR - I don't think you'll get a good answer because of covid. Accidents will likely be blamed on things other than sheer ineptitude.
So I did some quick searching/reading and boy is this a maze of twisty little passages, all alike, but a couple of articles of interest that I found...
This one has a few stats for 2020 through October or so and there** is** a spike in "accidents" due, they claim, to lockdowns:
This is a 2016 article (from what I think is some leftist rag) -- skip past all of the quizzes to get to the meat -- that suggests classification is kind of up to the coroner, and of particular interest is the CDC ends up parsing all of the data. So I guess, ultimately, unless you hunt down the primary sources, the answer to your question is about as reliable as you believe the CDC to be:
Accidents or suicides? I ask that in seriousness -- I'm not sure if suicides are classified as accidents but it wouldn't surprise me and in that case the numbers would be badly skewed due to democrat governance and ccp virus lockdowns.
Accidents only, which my result in death, but I think in most but not all cases it can be distinguished.
TL;DR - I don't think you'll get a good answer because of covid. Accidents will likely be blamed on things other than sheer ineptitude.
So I did some quick searching/reading and boy is this a maze of twisty little passages, all alike, but a couple of articles of interest that I found...
This one has a few stats for 2020 through October or so and there** is** a spike in "accidents" due, they claim, to lockdowns:
https://www.aftermath.com/content/accidental-shooting-deaths-statistics/
This is a 2016 article (from what I think is some leftist rag) -- skip past all of the quizzes to get to the meat -- that suggests classification is kind of up to the coroner, and of particular interest is the CDC ends up parsing all of the data. So I guess, ultimately, unless you hunt down the primary sources, the answer to your question is about as reliable as you believe the CDC to be:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-accidents/
I’m old enough to remember the mass school shootings from the left.