Again, for the folks who missed it the first half-dozen times ... the majority of defensive uses of firearms involve NO SHOTS FIRED.
Some Accidental Death Stats are available here. These are numbers for 2002.
Accidental Death by Firearm ... total 776. That number is not missing any zeros.
For the same period, aggregate firearms deaths (which includes suicide, homicide, gang violence, shot by police while committing a crime, etc.) 28K and change.
Your car is still more dangerous than my gun.