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GUN DEATHS here
POOL DEATHS here
GUN DEATHS
Let's give a tip of the hat to historian Clayton E. Cramer (writing in the July 1 edition of Shotgun News) for going directly to the web site of the Centers for Disease Control (www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/statab/unpubd/m ortabs/gmwki.htm — search under ICD 922.0) and looking up the actual number of American children under the age of 15 who are killed in handgun accidents each year. For 1997, that number was 21 — down from a high of 55 in 1990.
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POOL DEATHS
Each year, nationwide, about 300 children under 5 years old drown in swimming pools, usually a pool owned by their family.
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This is comparing deaths to age 15 and deaths to age 5, how many drowning deaths would there be if the numbers went to age 15 in drowings?
If we outlaw pools before guns we could save 460 more children a year.
But everyone love a pool right.
Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns have.
here are the facts... from the CDC
1,443 kids under 18 killed by guns in 2002
of those 1,443
627 were 15 or younger
of those 627
77 were accidental
.... 517 kids under 5 drowned accidentally in swimming pools in 2002...
so...
im all for not letting toddlers unwatched if your for not letting kids play with guns...
...but i forgot... you've got a bill of rights to protects....
happy hunting.
Save more lives, ban pools.
if the manufacturering of guns and bullets was taken away from private enterprises and government took control for the purpose of law enforcement, this would be a beginning for a safer future.
it's time for the "wild wild west" era to end.
are we not a civilized people?
Firearm deaths per year to kids 18 and younger.... 2,098
and thats not swimming pools, thats all drowning deaths, lakes, rivers, oceans. Im sure swimming pools would be considerable lower.
but regardless... even the above is a meaningless statistic by itself.... to really understand the severity of the data and the issue one has to look at the statistics in a relative manner.
for example..... of the 1,156 kids that drown in a year... how many kids enjoy swimming responsibly in a year? .... millions...
and subsequently.... of the 2,098 kids that are shot to death in a year ... how many kids enjoy firearms responsibly ... you tell me...
if we were talking of just totals, then cigarette smoking, driving a car, eating food (choking) would all be banned well before swimming pools.... however this is stupid since its not taken relatively, and millions eat drink and smoke.
however, if we look at the occurance of the act (owning,using, enjoying a firearm) relative to its mortality rate for the age group ...
you will quickly see that firearms top that charts of things that should be banned.
and if you want to go further and dissect the category of firearms you will see that hanguns are at the top of that list.
but perhaps you missunderstand me.... im not anti-hunting, or anti-2nd amendment .... what i would like to see is the banning of handguns and assalt rifles.... quite simply because they are designed to kill people .... and the american public cannot use these weapons responsibly.
just ask the 30,242 people that are killed each year by firearms....
and im sure the 4,146 yearly drowning victems might agree also.