Survey offers broad view of firearms in the home

Houston Comical ^ | Sept. 6, 2005, 8:57PM | MIKE STOBBE/AP

[WKUHilltopper]

I'd have to say Kentucky is close behind. Growing up as a kid, you couldn't walk thru our house without tripping over one. Funny, no one strafed the hell of of the neighborhood growing up. How could this be?

[Uncle Miltie]

"About 1.7 million children live with loaded, unlocked guns, the poll finds"

And yet they are more likely to die in a five gallon bucket.

"the number of toddlers who die from gun accidents is smaller than the number who die from drowning in buckets."

http://www.cato.org/dailys/06-01-99a.html

[ncountylee]

Dc must very very safe. Those poor people in Wyoming must be suffering...not!

[Jet Jaguar]

See post 19. I messed it up.

[conservativewasp]

Yep, I use one.

[Red Badger]

I would have told them to come to my house at 3AM sometime and try to get in thru the window and they would have the answer to their question, point-blank..................

[Conspiracy Guy]

BTW How does a survey of 241,000 adults result in 1.7 million children being exposed ? These are large families. 1,400 gun deaths with no reference as to whether these were in home or other. That is only .08%. Looks to me like child seats being improperly installed is the thing we need to worry about. The insanity stupidity of the left is overwhelming.

[Fido969]

I bet some of these "children" are 18 and 19 years old.

[Red Badger]

I saw a safety notice once about the buckets that said if you decide to keep the buckets, drill a hole in the bottom to prevent children from drowning...........

[Fido969]

Researchers said they aren't certain why some states reported higher rates than others, but they think people living in rural communities are most likely to have loaded guns in or around the house.

Idiot researchers.

[wysiwyg]

And still many times more children drown in backyard swimming pools than from gunshot wounds.

[michigander]

• Highest: 63 percent in Wyoming had firearms in the home.

• Lowest: 5 percent had guns at home in the District of Columbia, which has long-standing bans on handguns and semiautomatic weapons.

Number of Deaths Due to Firearms per 100,000 Population, 2001

1. District of Columbia......26.6

13.Wyoming....................13.9

[eyrish69]

• Highest: 63 percent in Wyoming had firearms in the home. • Lowest: 5 percent had guns at home in the District of Columbia, which has long-standing bans on handguns and semiautomatic weapons.
And who has the higher rate of gun crime...? You guessed it D.C. bans and all. Gun control really works. /sarcasm

[<1/1,000,000th%]

And only 40 per year are killed in accidents?

[Fido969]

And only 40 per year are killed in accidents?

How many are killed by abortion?

[MD_Willington_1976]

meanwhile..a whole lot more live in homes that do not have a lid lock on the crapper, or various buckets and tubs around that can hold water...

More kids drown everyday in such mundane things as toilets and buckets...we better regulate those too, after all it IS for the children...[/BARF...

[Conspiracy Guy]

I was hunting alone by the age of 10.

[chadwimc]

What good would it do for my 15 year old daughter to keep her revolver unloaded and locked? If Raven the black Lab alerts her to trouble while she is alone, I *WANT* her to grab her loaded gun...

[Fido969]

When you see THAT stat - the "1400 a year", you KNOW the lazy-ass reporter is just regurgitating the Brady press releases, without doing a shred of research on his own.

[Spok]

"About 1,400 children are killed by firearms each year, according to CDC estimates."

"CDC estimates" makes this number questionable, since the CDC has it's own agenda. Secondly, this number almost certainly includes gang bangers shooting each other. "Children" has become a suspect classification. Seventeen to nineteen year olds will be referred to as men, young men, young adults, youths, teenagers or children, depending on the author's agenda.