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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 18:39:30 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> > http://www.doctorsagainsthandguninjury.org/purpose.html
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> Take a look at the number of kids who have been killed buy guns. It is
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 popular media would have you believe.
320 American kids died in one year as a result of accidental firearms deaths.
That's certainly not a good thing, but it hardly seems like a tragedy of epic
proportions given our population.
Chris
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) on a related note (well, somewhat at least) The preacher at my church asked how many people in the congregation had been involved in automobile accidents...out of a group of about fifty people, just under a dozen raised their hands. (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: *Child* Handgun Death Rate
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| (...) I'd like to take issue with the word *accidental* above: The number of firearm related deaths under 21 actually includes juvenile offenders shot by police in the commission of crimes! More kids are killed each year by drowning in 5 gallon (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: *Child* Handgun Death Rate
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| (...) I was think more about the real kids that were killed with guns. But if we use your stats. Compare them with the UK figures like you did before. I have a hunch the death rate in the USA will be 100 times higher than in the UK? Like I said (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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