• @psud@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    The first low chance thing on that list that killed a person 2 degrees away from me was accidental gun discharge. It’s only so high because it’s grouped with other gun deaths, but I didn’t expect to know of someone so close with a 1 in 9288 of dying how they did

    Everyone else I know who’s died used one of the top few methods (cancer, heart problems)

    Ed. I read the whole list. The accidental gun shot death (caught his shotgun’s trigger on a barbed wire fence he was crossing) was the only unlikely death in my circles

    • @FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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      33 months ago

      In my area, hunters are taught to fully unload their gun, place the gun on the ground then cross the fence bare handed to help prevent accidental discharges.

      • @psud@aussie.zone
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        13 months ago

        We don’t have a gun culture in Australia like the US has, and we don’t have nearly the safety training. But yeah.