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And kids are getting killed accidentally via a number of other methods that don't garner the anti-gun media's attention: Selected Causes of Death, Ages 0-19, p
by greedo 14y ago
And kids are getting killed accidentally via a number of other methods that don't garner the anti-gun media's attention:
Selected Causes of Death, Ages 0-19, per 100,000 Population (2007)
Cause Number of Deaths Mortality Rate
Unintentional Injury 11,560 14.0
Motor Vehicle 6,683 8.1
Drowning 1,056 1.3
Fire/Burn 544 0.7
Poisoning 972 1.2
Suffocation/Strangulation 1,263 1.5
Firearm 138 0.2
Homicide 3,345 4.1
Firearm 2,186 2.7
Suicide 1,665 2.0
Firearm 683 0.8
Suffocation/Strangulation 739 0.9
Poisoning 133 0.2
Now this is 6 year old data. But accidental death by firearm isn't the danger that it would appear, compared to other threats.
http://www.childdeathreview.org/nationalchildmortalitydata.htm http://www.childdeathreview.org/nationalchildmortalitydata.h...
- ebbv 14y agoYeah and all those other problems probably have solutions that could reduce the numbers too. Such as having much more stringent driving tests in the US. Firearms are still responsible for 3,007 out of the 16570 non-natural deaths listed. Or 18%. That's not insignificant. The solution is not to throw up your hands in the air and say "Oh well there's a bunch of reasons why kids die. Let's not bother doing anything."
- greedo 14y agoI'm not throwing up my hands. I'm pointing to facts. And you're conflating suicides with accidental deaths and homicides. Curiously, the link I posted only breaks out homicides via firearms. According to the CDC, firearms constitute around 84% of the weapons used in homicides for ages 5-19 in 2005. The previous study has it at 65%, so it dropped 19% in two years. If child/young adult safety is truly the goal, then there are far bigger fish to fry than controlling firearms.