20 Children per day shot (Pediatrics Journel)....

[Hal]

I heard a joke years ago that is near and dear to me and I use it often with customers and while public speaking..

"78.5% of all percentages are made up"

LOL! That's an uncanny coincidence.....

The study mentions only drawing on figures from 44 states.
Toss in DC and the US territories and you have a total of 57.

78.5% of 57 is roughly - 44 !

 

[teeroux]

20 children shot per day. Thats not even dead that doesn't sound that bad. How many die per day from malpractice by pediatricians?

 

[Tom Servo]

How many die per day from malpractice by pediatricians?

The number is likely higher, but that argument doesn't help us much. If we use it, our opponents claim we're being callous about the gunshot wounds.

 

[Glenn E. Meyer]

Stay on topic. Posts deleted and infractions given.

 

[Kev]

Stay on topic.


Ok so it has to be dead kids by GSW. I get it.

We can never win against these medical surveys, except to point out the CDC report as mentioned that actually backfired when firearms didnt account for as many deaths as they and I HATE to say this.."hoped" or maybe expected would be a better choice of words.

 

[OkieCruffler]

I can only go by my own experience. I was a nurse in the pediatric ICU for 10 years. In those ten years I saw 4 GSW. Of those 4, 2 were fatalities and one of the others was from an airgun (very nasty case actually). During my short stint in home health I saw one other, non-fatality obviously. So out of the hundreds of pediatric patients I've seen only 5 have been GSW. Not sure what that percentage is but I'm guessing it's pretty low.

 

[slicknickns]

Maliciously shot or accidentally?

 

[OkieCruffler]

In my case one was a purposeful shooting against a 5 year old. the rest were all accidental. To be fair, any gang banger shot went across the road to the adult ICU regardless of age. We didn't need to deal with the security issues that created.

 

[Aguila Blanca]

I'm going to assume that this study is like the others I've seen, and includes 19 and 20 year old gang bangers who were shot by police officers in the line of duty as "children injured or killed by gun violence."

They just didn't pay attention in Sunday school: "He who liveth by the sword shall die by the sword."

 

[dajowi]

Soon to include injuries caused by: rubber band guns, squirt guns, caulk guns, signs with images of guns, large dictionaries with words beginning with gun... Absurdity upon absurdity upon absurdity.