Skip to comments.
Study: BB guns injure thousands of youths
CNN ^
| AP
Posted on 11/01/2004 12:49:57 PM PST by JFK_Lib
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A study has found that air rifles, paintball pistols and BB guns injure as many as 21,000 Americans each year, undermining the notion that such weapons are harmless in the hands of young people. Nonpowder guns kill an average of four Americans yearly, and from 1990 to 2000, there were 39 such deaths -- 32 of children younger than 15, according to a report in November's issue of Pediatrics. The report, published Monday, comes just two weeks after the BB gun death of an 8-year-old South Carolina boy accidentally killed by a 13-year-old friend. The pellet pierced the boy's heart, said Richland County Coroner Gary Watts.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bang; banglist; gun; guncontrol; gungrabbers; gunrights; guns; safetynazis
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80, 81-98 next last
Can you just hear it already?
1
posted on
11/01/2004 12:49:57 PM PST
by
JFK_Lib
To: JFK_Lib
"You'll poke your eye out!"
2
posted on
11/01/2004 12:50:31 PM PST
by
Pyro7480
(Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
To: JFK_Lib
almost here....24 straight hours of A Christmas Story
3
posted on
11/01/2004 12:51:27 PM PST
by
stylin19a
(It's called GOLF because all the other 4 letter words were taken)
To: Pyro7480
"You'll poke your eye out!"
lmao!
4
posted on
11/01/2004 12:51:48 PM PST
by
rockabyebaby
(What goes around, comes around!)
To: Pyro7480
Well, I think to be fair, we have to ban air guitars
too!
MV
5
posted on
11/01/2004 12:51:52 PM PST
by
madvlad
To: JFK_Lib
To: JFK_Lib
Ban Democrats, they are much more dangerous.
7
posted on
11/01/2004 12:52:23 PM PST
by
wvobiwan
(Kerry/Edwards Foreign Policy Slogan: Accept our surrender or we'll sue!)
To: JFK_Lib
undermining the notion that such weapons are harmless in the hands of young people.
Whoever said that? Young people raised by human parents are taught to respect all dangerous things, including things in the kitchen drawers.
8
posted on
11/01/2004 12:53:07 PM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Ignorance, bigotry, envy, and gluttony are a few floor joists in the democratic platform.)
To: Pyro7480
air rifles, paintball pistols and BB guns injure as many as 21,000 Americans each yearDefine...injure
9
posted on
11/01/2004 12:53:13 PM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: madvlad
If air is outlawed, only outlaws will have air!
The horror.....the..horror!
10
posted on
11/01/2004 12:53:25 PM PST
by
paulcissa
(Only YOU can prevent liberalism.)
To: JFK_Lib
If Kerry is elected: "These weapons are silent killers and leave no cartridge cases behind for law enforcement to track down criminals. They serve no sporting purpose in either duck hunting or deer hunting, so are not covered by either half of the second amendment. I am signing an executive order today to ban their sale and possession."
11
posted on
11/01/2004 12:54:33 PM PST
by
Sender
(I love watching the final spastic throes of the Kerry faithful...as they ravage one another...)
To: All
Hear this loud and clear......
You can no longer take a bath......You may drown......
To: JFK_Lib
"You'll shoot your eye out, kid!"
13
posted on
11/01/2004 12:55:00 PM PST
by
Ladysmith
(Uhhh, kin ah git me a huntin' license here?...)
To: MisterRepublican
BAN GRAVITY!Don't want those little darlings fall outta trees now, do we?
14
posted on
11/01/2004 12:55:14 PM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: JFK_Lib
Sorry the fault lies in the parents of these kids. You teach them a healthy respect for the gun and how to safely carry and use it. This is a sad fact that parents will give a kid a pellet or BB gun without doing this.
15
posted on
11/01/2004 12:55:19 PM PST
by
reagandemo
(The battle is near are you ready for the sacrifice?)
To: rockabyebaby
To: MisterRepublican
17
posted on
11/01/2004 12:55:31 PM PST
by
rockabyebaby
(What goes around, comes around!)
To: JFK_Lib
Alcohol overdoses kill 1100 teens/college students every year.
18
posted on
11/01/2004 12:55:33 PM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: wvobiwan
19
posted on
11/01/2004 12:55:47 PM PST
by
Ladysmith
(Uhhh, kin ah git me a huntin' license here?...)
To: Pyro7480
In 2000, there were 3,482 unintentional drownings in the United States, an average of nine people per day.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and PreventionKeep your kids away from water. They are thousands of times more likely to drown than be injured by a BB gun.
20
posted on
11/01/2004 12:55:48 PM PST
by
L98Fiero
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80, 81-98 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson
