Birmingham Injury Blog

The Alabama Injury Lawyer Blog has posted an article about gun safety. Alabama currently ranks as the state with the second most gun related deaths. Louisiana is in first place with 20 injuries per 100,000 people. Alabama has 17 gun related injuries per 100,000 people. Roughly 57% of households in Alabama have firearms.

In general, children under 15 are twelve times more likely to be killed accidentally by a firearm than an adult. American children are also 16 times more likely to be murdered with a firearm than in 25 other industrialized countries.

Some people may say they can’t prevent gun-related homicides involving kids, but there is an area that needs real attention. Deaths from family-owned firearms. Fact: American kids under 15 years old are 11 times more likely to commit suicide using a gun, and nine times more likely to die from a firearm accident than children in those other industrialized countries.

The article goes on to remind people to unload their guns and lock them up when not in use.

Gun owners are the first line of defense against the senseless tragedies we read about in the news every day.