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Kids and guns:
Kids and guns:
Almost 1,300 children die and 5,790 are treated for gunshot wounds annually in America, a new study suggests. Here are the states with the most and least deaths.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/19/health/child-gun-violence-study/index.html
{ What country other than America would put up with this? No wonder many peoples abroad think we love guns more then our own children. I have read there are more guns in the United States then people and its liable to stay that way with the number of children and adults who die every year from guns.}
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Re: Kids and guns:
two points,
'fridge doors, children were being killed by getting trapped in refrigerators - very quickly laws were passed making that if not impossible then at least very difficult
Lawn darts a popular toy which caused a few deaths and injuries again very quickly laws were enacted and lawn darts (as originally made) were banned
So why do so many states not have laws which punish those which allow children access to guns?
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6/19/2017, 11:00 am
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Re: Kids and guns:
Then why not ban automobiles? By your own standard if it cannot be made 'ultimately, absolutely safe' then it must be removed from public access.
Misused or abused even the old standards my grandmother used to support clothes lines were used by children as 'spears' to javelin throw at each other. We beat on each other with make believe swords made of lumber, lots of things can be MADE more dangerous than actually are or left to the imagination or left out in the open for a child to access become a agent of death. Notably Pod laundry soap that children find candy like yet are still sold to this day.
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Re: Kids and guns:
quote: Then why not ban automobiles
is children driving automobiles and killing people a big problem in America?
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6/19/2017, 12:18 pm
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Re: Kids and guns:
No but according to Brookings it is a major problem in ethnicity:
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2015/12/15/guns-and-race-the-different-worlds-of-black-and-white-americans/
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Re: Kids and guns:
Then this which has not decreased but INCREASED in a city where firearms LAW is the most stringent:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/us/chicago-gang-violence.html?_r=0
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Re: Kids and guns:
quote: is children driving automobiles and killing people a big problem in America?
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quote: No
so you want to ban something which isnt a problem?
while we at at it how about banning infants from flying planes, navigating ocean going liners and flying to the moon?
your link is off topic
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Re: Kids and guns:
You are off topic. In the pre teen to late teen there is an excessive amount of gang related deaths by firearms INCLUDED within the child death stats, so is FULLY appropriate.
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Re: Kids and guns:
In the pre teen to late teen there is an excessive amount of gang related deaths by firearms INCLUDED within the child death stats,
OK so here are some stats which dont include gang related deaths
AS OF June 16, 2017, THIS YEAR:
50 KIDS KILLED
90 KIDS INJURED
9 ADULTS INJURED
1 ADULT KILLED
ALL BY KIDS
In May 2017, a month with 31 days, at least 37 children pulled a trigger and unintentionally shot themselves or another person.
Of the 37 incidents in May:
3 adults were injured
24 children were injured
10 children were killed
The youngest shooter was an 18-month-old in Tennessee who shot himself in the face
Of the 37 incidents in May, over half occurred in just five states:
Indiana: 4
Louisiana: 4
Florida: 3
Tennessee: 3
Texas: 3
compare with
between 2014 and 2016, Massachusetts, a state with safe storage laws, saw only 1 incident of a child fatally shot with an irresponsibly stored gun.
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Re: Kids and guns:
Alright, with such a MASSIVE number(37), what of children running into a street hit by auto, poisoned by detergents, chemicals in those same states.
Then there are the children forgotten in autos, 20 deaths in 2013.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/heat-heightens-car-temperature/15305637
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