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Re: *Child* Handgun Death Rate
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Date: 
Wed, 18 Jul 2001 08:19:26 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:

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:

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.

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 before, shocking.

Scott A


Chris



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  Re: *Child* Handgun Death Rate
 
(...) What's that supposed to mean? (...) OK, show me. Find the numbers of violent deaths of children for the US and the UK and compare them. I'm not that interested in the number of gun deaths, because dying from a bullet is no worse than being (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: *Child* Handgun Death Rate
 
(...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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