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[Divided Attention]

I get frequent emails from a nursing journal and this topic was in today's bundle of current items. Everyday I learn a new way that those that don't know and are afraid of guns try to chip away at the rights of law abiding citizens. The link I have posted is not as lopsided as the one in my journal, but you have to join to view that one.

While I am aware that injury is the leading cause of death in children and youth, but reading the journal article, you would think injury by guns was the leading cause.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/06/08/37186.htm

[surprise_i'm_armed]

The report states that 170 Florida children a year die of gunshots.

How many are intentional suicides, or caused by drive-by's, as contrasted with finding a parent's gun and misuing it?

There's probably a much greater number of children that die in traffic accidents because their parents are too stupid
to put them in a correct child safety seat, or to buckle them up in a regular seat belt if they are big enough.

Sheesh.

SIA

[threoh8]

The report states that 170 Florida children a year die of gunshots.

How many are intentional suicides, or caused by drive-by's, as contrasted with finding a parent's gun and misuing it?

SIA

Also, ask what their definition of "children" is. Does it include those 25 and under, as some do?

How many of those children were involved in criminal activity at the time? ... members of criminal gangs?

Who was firing those gunshots?

Figures don't lie ...

[esxmarkc]

Good data out there..

http://www.cdc.gov/injury/overview/data.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Firearm/Gunshot only accounts for 9%

Cheap trampolines, swimming pools and 4-wheelers are far more likely to get ya.


According to this chart http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/U ... 2007-a.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

For kids 14 and under, unintentional firearm deaths fall 9th or 10th. Drowning and motor vehicles are well up at the top.


Fear is the driver in biased reporting such as this. When people see swimming pools they don't shake in their boots. People such as the ones that write these reports are scared to death of guns and therefore they write.