As regular readers have learned by now, this blog has attracted a number of commenters who are 2nd Amendment absolutists, and who consistently try to refute the statistics and ideas put forth by the many other readers of this blog, who seek more regulation of guns. One of their constant refrains is that more people die from bathtub falls, hammer blows and swimming pools than from shootings. Car accidents are another example of a risk we accept that, in fact, kills many more people each year than gun violence.

Except that may not be so true anymore. According to a report released last year by the Violence Policy Center, gun deaths surpassed the number of motor vehicle deaths in ten states in 2009, including Arizona, Indiana and Michigan. Nationwide, there were a total of 31,236 firearm-related deaths vs. 36,361 motor vehicle-related deaths. By 2015, however, the report predicts that gun fatalities nationally will outnumber deaths from car accidents. That’s where we are headed.

Here is today’s report.

—Jennifer Mascia

A civilian employee died in a shooting Wednesday afternoon in a parking lot at the Army base at Fort Knox, Ky. Gunfire erupted shortly after 5 p.m. near the Army’s Human Resource Command. The base was placed on full lockdown. The victim, who was an employee of the Human Resources Command, was transported by ambulance to Ireland Army Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

—NBC News

A new sheriff who was cracking down on the drug trade in southern West Virginia’s coalfields was fatally shot Wednesday in the spot where he usually parked his car for lunch. State Police said the suspect was hospitalized with gunshot wounds inflicted by a deputy who chased him. Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum died of his wounds.

—Associated Press

A 6-year-old boy was grazed by a bullet in a drive-by shooting in Princeton, N.C., Wednesday evening. Two men in a car with tinted windows drove by a home and fired five rounds at a crowd of people in the front yard. One bullet grazed the boy’s forehead. Police said they have one person of interest but no arrests have been made.

—WRAL

A homeowner who shot an intruder refused to surrender to police, resulting in a standoff in Puebla, Colo., Wednesday morning. After 26-year-old Brent Mede tried to enter a home without permission, the homeowner, 44-year-old Jack Medina, shot the intruder in the leg. Medina then refused to come out of his home. Around 10 a.m., Medina’s brothers were able to convince him to surrender. Mede was treated at a hospital; officers are determining if charges will be filed.

—KRDO

A woman was killed in a shooting at a home near Lake Greenwood, S.C., on Wednesday evening. The husband of the woman, identified as 64-year-old Barbara Campbell, called for help after he found his wife shot in the chest. Campbell died after being rushed to a local hospital. Investigators are conducting interviews to determine whether the shooting was deliberate or accidental.

—Fox Carolina

A 17-year-old was chased down an alley and shot Wednesday afternoon in Ft. Wayne, Ind. The victim was pursued by two men into a yard, where one of the men fired several shots. The boy’s heart was still beating when medics arrived on the scene, but he died shortly after. It’s the sixth shooting within a week in the state’s second-largest city.”I don’t think I’m being premature in saying that we’re dealing with gangs, drugs and guns,” Chief Rusty York said.

—WSBT

22-year-old Gregory Davis Jr. was shot in the parking lot of an apartment building in Mobile, Ala., Wednesday morning. Davis was taken to the hospital, where he later died. Donald Lockett, 22, was arrested after he returned to the scene of the crime. Lockett said Davis had pushed his grandmother and threatened them, so he got his gun and shot Davis.

—AL.com

A man was shot and killed after trying to break up an argument between his niece and her boyfriend in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday afternoon. Investigators have not released the name of the victim, who was in his mid-to-late 20s. A neighbor said the violence doesn’t come as a surprise. “This is the third time I’ve witnessed the homicide detectives knocking on my door,” said Natek Beck.

—KMBC

A husband shot and killed his wife at the bank where she worked before committing suicide Wednesday morning. Scott Edgerton, 63, killed his 56-year-old wife Sharon Bellingham at the Comerica Bank in Boca Raton, Florida, before turning the gun on himself.

—WPTV

Two people, one of them a 14-year-old boy, were wounded late Tuesday in a drive-by shooting in southeast Dallas. The teen and a 20-year-old man were shot about 10 p.m. at an apartment complex on North Jim Miller Road. Their injuries were not life-threatening.

—The Dallas Morning News

A suspect charged in a Saturday night shooting that injured one man in Wilmington, Del., has been charged in a shooting the next night that injured three more people. The shootings were within two blocks of each other on the city’s East Side. The first, about 11 p.m. Saturday, left a man in critical condition. Sunday’s shooting, shortly before 11 a.m., injured three men, ages 21, 22 and 25. Jerree L. Richardson, 21, an ex-convict, is awaiting arraignment.

—Delaware Online

A 19-year-old man was found dead of a gunshot wound in a house in Jacksonville, Fla., Wednesday afternoon. Shortly after an investigation began, 34-year-old Toma McNair, who lives at the residence were the body was found, surrendered at the Ware County Sheriff’s Office and handed over his weapon.

—The Florida Times-Union