[Flashpoint]

The rate of gun injuries in the United States has regularly declined during the National Rifle Association’s annual convention, according to a study led by Harvard Medical School and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

“Fewer people using guns means fewer gun injuries, which in some ways is not surprising,” said Anupam Jena, a Harvard Medical School professor who co-authored the study, in a statement. “But the drop in gun injuries during these large meetings attended by thousands of well-trained gun owners seems to refute the idea that gun injuries stem solely from lack of experience and training in gun use.”

Put all the "law abiding" owners in a tank, and the rest of us are safer