Since 54% of the daily USA deaths from guns of 95.8 are suicide, and we assume that every person who is shot in a suicide dies (if you know the real number please adjust), that means 44 people die each day from either accidentally shooting themselves or being shot at. That’s out of 269 shootings, excluding the suicides.
So the odds of dying if you get shot by another person or shoot yourself accidentally are 16%.
It looks like accidental firearms deaths in the USA are about 1.4 per day. 73 people per day are admitted to the hospital for injury from accidental firearm discharge. So assuming that’s all of them who are hurt, that leaves about 196 people per day who are shot by another person on purpose. 42 die.
So your odds of being killed when someone shoots you meaning to do so are 21% today. That’s pretty good, relatively speaking.
My point in all that is that while I suspect with advancing technology the accidents will go down as a percentage of gun handling episodes, the fatality of purposeful shootings will go way up. So if we do nothing, just stay the same, deaths from A shooting B on purpose will jump from around 40 per day to 200.
That is 58,400 more people dying per year from a gun because someone meant to use the gun to stop them. That increase is twice as many US people who die in auto accidents per year.
That’s quite a lot. So even if somehow we think it’s ok today, if we don’t do something it seems likely to be an ever worse situation.