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I think you didn't read the entire sentence. "a vanishingly small amount of accidents
can be directly attributed to a defective firearm."
Majority of accidents with weapons are due to user error.
If the guns goes off when you look at it the wrong way, that is caused by a defective firearm, when it goes off because someone was playing with it and didn't check if it was loaded that is user error.
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Which actually isn't' that important if you think about it since even if we are talking about user error, that means guns are designed to make killing way too easy.
unintended consequence, inherent flaw or designers just didn't' give a fuck, the effect ends up the same.