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Re: *Child* Handgun Death Rate
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:27:57 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bill Farkas writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
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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.
> >
> > Do you mean this:
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> > 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.
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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!
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> More kids are killed each year by drowning in 5 gallon buckets of water!!!
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> Where's the outrage? Where are the calls for bucket safety locks and
> background checks?! Or how 'bout banning assault buckets, even!? WE NEED
> MORE STRICT BUCKET CONTROL LAWS!!!
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> The fact is, that firearms save far more lives than they take. People are
> the problem, not guns. Murder existed long before the gun did.
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> Bill
I understand that you are not responding to me here, but I thank you anyway.
I'm glad that someone else here actually understands that there are valid
arguments against gun paranoia.
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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