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Fwd: NEWS - USA NSC declares hunting safer than ping pong
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Avon)
Tue Feb 9 17:50:07 1999
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>Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 08:05:21 +1030
>From: SSAA <Sporting.Shooters.Association@adelaide.on.net>
>Subject: NEWS - USA NSC declares hunting safer than ping pong
>To: ssaa-news@adelaide.on.net
>Reply-to: Sporting.Shooters.Association@adelaide.on.net
http://communities.msn.com/outdoors/hunting/news/safety120798.asp
According to a report from the National Safety Council, hunting,
often regarded as dangerous by those unfamiliar with the activity, is
actually safer than such mild activities as badminton and ping pong.
The council's studies reveal that hunting has fewer accidents per
100,000 participants than football, baseball, cycling, volleyball,
swimming, golf, tennis, fishing, bowling, and billiards, as well.
Of the activities researched, hunting endures about 7 injuries per
100,00 participants while the next safest, ping pong, has more than
15 injuries per 100,000. As would be expected, football has the
most, with about 3,313 injuries per 100,000.
Ironically, hunting accidents may get more media attention than
injuries in other sports because of their rarity.
Mandatory hunter education courses throughout the United States is
credited with dramatically reducing the number of hunting accidents
in the last 30 years, making it eight times safer than bowling.
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