Can't anybody write anymore?
I also very seriously doubt the statistic is even accurate, assuming I understand what the author is trying to say.
In actual fact, of course, guns are WAY down the list of health hazards to children.
In fact, if you have both a gun and a swimming pool, your pool is about 100x more likely to kill a child than your gun.
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2001/07/levittpoolsvsguns.php
BTW, 24 year old children?
It is a typical leftist/progressive attempt to deceive with language. 98 percent of those deaths are suicides and homicides. They nearly always try to deceive people into thinking that most are accidents, because people reasonably understand that "safety" concerns are not going to stop suicides and homicides.
Anti-gunners love to use the mid 20’s for “childhood” shooting deaths, because it artificially raises the numbers. There are a hell of a lot of 18-24 year olds intentionally gunned down each year, many justifiably. But the BS helps them scream for gun control, “FOR THE CHILDREN!11!!!!!111!1”, of course.
24 years old most definitely are children in this bleak generation.
It’s why I don’t have any real life friends. I can’t seem to find anything in common with people my age.
They skew the statistics....shooting deaths count all gang murders. It is a scam—they try to get a record of guns like they did in Hitler’s Germany which confiscated all guns because they knew who had them....they forced registration, their homosexual SA troops forcibly grabbed the guns and then they herded the defenseless men, women and children who were tortured, starved and killed.
Let them talk about the need for responsible gun ownership....the Eddie Eagle pamphlets should be given to those who would like them....but they should never be able to ask if a patient actually has a gun—much less keep records of it. Medical records will get out.....slippery slope and Murphy’s Law.
The medical industry has a very fascist tendency with mandating toxins to infants who are too young to excrete the poisons which damage the brain and not warning about attachment disorder in the inhumane care of group daycares shows their stupidity on the true importance of the natural family and nurturing and emotional and physical development of children.
Do they ask the essential question about children having responsive and loving male role models? The lack of which causes crime and incarceration of over 80% of our population. That is way more costly to society than guns. The fatherless boys and girls are the ones who will use guns on others because of their sheer anger at the world for their incomplete early childhood.
Most are extremely ignorant on vital issues of life. They have been brainwashed by the cultural Marxists who use educational system and media for their indoctrination....the more time spent in Universities....usually the more warped they become...and unable to have any common sense.
“BTW, 24 year old children?”
They need to include gangbangers up to about that age to make the statistic look good.
Actual accidents among actual children are very low—as another poster said, 5 gallon buckets sitting around are much more dangerous than guns.