ajs510
Thursday, July 9th, 2009, 10:19 AM
QUOTE (El Guapo @ Thursday, July 9th, 2009, 1:35 PM)

I just got this in an e mail, I have no idea if it is true, but it's funny.
Also, if he clapped once every 10 seconds, that would put children deaths from gunfire in the U.S. at 140,000 per year. A quick google search said there was a total of 30,000 deaths by guns last year in the U.S. and over half were suicide.
3,218 gun deaths in 2006 for youths under the age of 19, according to the Brady Center.
1,940 of those were homicides in the 15-19 age bracket, we can use common sense to determine that gang and drug violence drove those numbers up.
That leaves 1278 total deaths for persons under 19 years old, and 763 of those were suicides.
515 deaths not "covered" by the filtering process above (obviously I know that a percentage of the 15-19 year olds killed by guns weren't on drugs or in gangs, but you don't jump from 175 homicides in the 10-14 bracket to 1,940 homicides without taking that into account in a big way).
4 times as many kids under 14 years old (approximately 2000) were killed in car accidents last year, and 250,000 were injured.
We have a much bigger media problem in this country than we do a gun problem. Gun violence is a sexy story that always gets a read or a click, and that's why you hear so much about it, not because there's statistically any greater chance that your kid will get killed that way. Sensationalist journalism.
Want to protect your kid? Teach him/her to swim, because it's statistically 10 times more likely that he or she will die of drowning.