There were 181 deaths from firearms 135 were suicide. 14 were criminal assaults and 4 were by the police. This leaves 28 that were essentially accidents.
Compare this with 357 for both boating and drownings.
Interestingly there were also 1273 suicides by hanging and suffocation with an additional 89 hangings that were undetermined for the same year.
I didn’t look at those. I’ll have a look tomorrow. I believe they are pretty high.
Only looked at boating and drowning because I knew it was on the high side. There must be a few other deadly sports out there.
Yep in qld horseriding deaths are fairly common. .not sure about other states???
As for wives with knives I know what ya mean fatman…
I just got this for the missus as she wanted a.new skinner!!
What about lawn bowls? Probably be a few?
I reckon the should have show the stats for the number of people seriously injured in traffic accidents. Not just the number of lives lost. The results probably wouldn’t suit their road safety agenda though.
