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Re: *Child* Handgun Death Rate
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 17 Jul 2001 07:54:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
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> > According to the CDC, 1998 saw 30,708 firearm-related deaths in the entire
> > US. 17,605 of those were suicides. I'll call the 12,228 assaults and the
> > 875 accidents that remain a problem. So out of the roughly 275 million
> > people in the US, .0000476 of them were killed by guns.
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> I found similar, though slightly differing, stats at
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> http://www.doctorsagainsthandguninjury.org/purpose.html
Take a look at the number of kids who have been killed buy guns. It is shocking.
Scott A
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> In 1998, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
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> Suicides with firearms took the lives of 17,420 Americans.
> Homicides with firearms took the lives of 11,798 Americans.
> Unintentional firearm deaths took the lives of 866 Americans.
> The precise number of people who suffered non-fatal injuries in firearm-
> related incidents is not known, but the estimates exceed 90,000.
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> Close enough for discussion. For further clarification, I also found a
> "total deaths" figure for 1998 of 2,337,256 deaths.
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> http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/pdf/nvsr49_03.pdf
> (see page 4)
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> It seems to me more prudent to use the "total deaths" figure, rather than
> "total population" figure, since only the number of deaths is relevant in a
> discussion of gun-related deaths. However, even using this much smaller
> figure (and my total gun deaths figure of 30,084), the number of gun-related
> deaths is still only 1.29% of the total mortality rate for 1998. Not an
> especially large figure, overall (though I don't in any way mean to lessen
> the seriousness of the 30,084 deaths, either.)
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> Dave!
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| (...) shocking. Do you mean this: Based on 1998 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 37% of the 866 people who died from unintentional firearm wounds were under the age of 21 ? Shockingly low if you compare it to what (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I found similar, though slightly differing, stats at (URL) In 1998, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Suicides with firearms took the lives of 17,420 Americans. Homicides with firearms took the lives of 11,798 (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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