This is a clipping from the Columbus Dispatch in Ohio. I thought it was intersting that they even printed it.
Date: Monday, May 15, 2000
Section: EDITORIAL & COMMENT
Page: 08A
Column: Letters To The Editor
"Save the children'' is the cry from the news media, and it's about time they started printing the facts.
* 82 -- The number of children killed in school shootings since 1993 (Source: National School Safety Center).
* 99 -- The number of children killed by automobile air-bag deployments since 1993. (Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration).
* 90,000 -- The number of accidental deaths in the United States per year.
* 1,400 -- The number of accidental gun deaths in the United States per year (1.6 percent of accidental deaths).
Firearms are dead last as a cause of accidental fatalities among both children and adults. Doctors kill three times as many Americans annually from mistakes than firearms kill, counting homicides, suicides and accidents.
Firearms are used more than 2 million times each year to stop the criminal element from harming law-abiding citizens. Gun laws do not deter criminals, but they can increase crime when the rights of law-abiding citizens are restricted by the government. Is the media biased in the anti-gun print we read most of the time? Why aren't facts, instead of political correctness, printed?
We need to need to teach the concepts of right and wrong and respect for life and property, which seem to be forgotten in the society we are perpetuating today.
John L. Galbreath
Mount Sterling, Ohio
Date: Monday, May 15, 2000
Section: EDITORIAL & COMMENT
Page: 08A
Column: Letters To The Editor
"Save the children'' is the cry from the news media, and it's about time they started printing the facts.
* 82 -- The number of children killed in school shootings since 1993 (Source: National School Safety Center).
* 99 -- The number of children killed by automobile air-bag deployments since 1993. (Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration).
* 90,000 -- The number of accidental deaths in the United States per year.
* 1,400 -- The number of accidental gun deaths in the United States per year (1.6 percent of accidental deaths).
Firearms are dead last as a cause of accidental fatalities among both children and adults. Doctors kill three times as many Americans annually from mistakes than firearms kill, counting homicides, suicides and accidents.
Firearms are used more than 2 million times each year to stop the criminal element from harming law-abiding citizens. Gun laws do not deter criminals, but they can increase crime when the rights of law-abiding citizens are restricted by the government. Is the media biased in the anti-gun print we read most of the time? Why aren't facts, instead of political correctness, printed?
We need to need to teach the concepts of right and wrong and respect for life and property, which seem to be forgotten in the society we are perpetuating today.
John L. Galbreath
Mount Sterling, Ohio