Stats I read for 1993 say that 204 kids died that year from guns (accidental and non-accidental).
Those stats also stated that if 25 year-olds and younger are considered "kids" that one-per-day are killed (a number that anti-gunners like to use because it sounds better for them).
Rosie first said that "16 kids a day are killed with guns". Then, last week, she seems to have educated herself just a bit and now says that "every other day a child is killed with a gun". Sounds like she got the right number, at least the ones I have seen in stats.
BUT, the Center for Disease Control (non-profic, non-biased group!?!) is starting a big campaign in my county and advertising that "13 kids a day die from guns in America" and that "trigger locks are the solution".
OKAY......(big breath).....first of all, it is yet to be determined how many of these "kids" deserve it! Gang bangers deserve what they get and may of them are considered "kids". Sorry...poor choices.
But, leaving that aside, and pretending that all child deaths from guns are accidents....just how many are there? Personally, I rarely hear about them, and you can bet that the news reports them. So, there can't be that many accidental shootings or they would be ramming them down our throats every day.
Anyway, setting all aside and setting aside whether they are accidental or not, what is the right number?
Is it one every other day? Around 200 a year? 13 a day!? 16 a day!?
Who has the facts out there? Because I keep hearing different numbers...drastically different.
thaddeus
Those stats also stated that if 25 year-olds and younger are considered "kids" that one-per-day are killed (a number that anti-gunners like to use because it sounds better for them).
Rosie first said that "16 kids a day are killed with guns". Then, last week, she seems to have educated herself just a bit and now says that "every other day a child is killed with a gun". Sounds like she got the right number, at least the ones I have seen in stats.
BUT, the Center for Disease Control (non-profic, non-biased group!?!) is starting a big campaign in my county and advertising that "13 kids a day die from guns in America" and that "trigger locks are the solution".
OKAY......(big breath).....first of all, it is yet to be determined how many of these "kids" deserve it! Gang bangers deserve what they get and may of them are considered "kids". Sorry...poor choices.
But, leaving that aside, and pretending that all child deaths from guns are accidents....just how many are there? Personally, I rarely hear about them, and you can bet that the news reports them. So, there can't be that many accidental shootings or they would be ramming them down our throats every day.
Anyway, setting all aside and setting aside whether they are accidental or not, what is the right number?
Is it one every other day? Around 200 a year? 13 a day!? 16 a day!?
Who has the facts out there? Because I keep hearing different numbers...drastically different.
thaddeus