Also in the Fox News article we have:
But Lott counters that the number of gun accidents among law-abiding citizens is remarkably low given that about 90 million Americans own firearms.
As I explained earlier, Lott's estimate of the number of firearm owners is much too high because he misunderstood the question in the poll that he used for his estimate.
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