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In article <3aj3fn$d43@sndsu1.sinet.slb.com>,
Dan Day <dcd@se.houston.geoquest.slb.com> wrote:
>In article <Nov17.043137.88015@acs.ucalgary.ca> maceache@acs.ucalgary.ca (Allison Scott MacEachern) writes:
>>
>>Just out of curiousity, since guns are so much safer than
>>explosives, how  often do people kill themselves/others
>>accidentally in Canada wwith explosives every year, compared with
>>the gun numbers?
>
>Before you consider the answer to that relevant to anything,
>you're going to have to know the relative rates of firearm
>ownership versus explosives ownership.
>
>On a per-ownership basis, for example, a swimming pool in
>the backyard is more of a threat to life than a firearm in
>the home.
>-- 

It would indeed be interesting to know that (although I've
recently been assured that *illegality* would never have anything
to do with explosives ownership... so are we talking about legal
or illegal explosives?) In any case, if guns are so much safer
than explosives, one would expect a disproportionately high
number of explosive deaths in relation to explosive use.

(I expect what you'll find is that explosive use and deaths are
indeed rare. As I've said before, well-maintained commercial
explosives are not especially dangerous if you know wwhat you're
doing. It's the kids playing with homemades that get killed.)

Scott MacEachern