Posted on 06/19/2017 4:41:53 PM PDT by Ennis85
About 1,300 US children under the age of 17 die from gun-related injuries per year, a government study has found. Researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also found that guns seriously wounded about 5,800 children each year. Boys accounted for 82% of all child firearm deaths while black children were 10 times more likely to be killed by a gun, according to the study. More than half of these deaths were homicides while 38% were ruled suicide. The study, published in Pediatrics on Monday, also found 6% of firearm-related deaths were fatalities from accidental gun injuries.
"Firearm injuries are a leading cause of death among US children aged one to 17 years and contribute substantially each year to premature death, illness and disability of children," said CDC's Katherine Fowler, who led the study. "About 19 children a day die or are medically treated in an emergency department for a gunshot wound in the US," she told Reuters. CDC researchers examined national data in what they describe as "the most comprehensive examination of current firearm-related deaths and injuries among children in the United States to date". The study found a 60% increase in gun suicides from 2007-15, according an analysis of national injury records.
Suicide was most likely to occur when children were dealing with stressful circumstances or relationship problems with a boyfriend, girlfriend or family member, the study revealed. White children and Native American children were four to five times more likely to die by firearm suicide. Accidental gun deaths appeared to happen most frequently among children playing with firearms.
The study comes as a four-year-old Pennsylvania boy shot himself in the face and died on Sunday. Police in Monroe County have not charged anyone in the boy's death.
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So, a license and insurance is now needed to by a 5 gallon plastic bucket?
And almost all of the black children shot were shot by other blacks.
And almost all of the black children shot were shot in cities with the most stringent gun laws.
Recently, a toddler died in a few inches of water at a local day care:
http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/260936718-story
How many children are SAVED every year by the presence of a firearm in the home and a responsible adult who knows how to use it?
How many children are killed by abortion every year?
1. My guns are so lazy, they must be defective. None of the guns I own have killed anyone, whether underage or not.
2. The guns that are not lazy seem to be quite selective. Their underage killings are mostly drug dealers and other criminals, typically aged 15-16. They rarely harm kids from intact families who do their homework and go to bed at 9:00 pm or even 10:00 pm. Even in rural areas with lots of firearms, guns almost never shoot decent kids.
Most are gang-bang juvenile scum or their victims.
What they don’t mention is that they are classifying 25-year olds as “children” and gang shootings as “gun deaths.”
My gosh, now it’s even worse than we thought last week!
I have a hard time thinking it was stupidity, or even a slip of the tongue; as opposed to something calculated to register with certain people, regardless of the later correction.
Leftist politicians seem to rely almost entirely on ‘tricks’ these days. They don’t care about truth.
How many are gang related killings?
Surprised to see his finger indexed.
FAKE NEWS
From 2005-2014, there were an average of 3,536 fatal unintentional drownings (non-boating related) annually in the United States — about ten deaths per day. An additional 332 people died each year from drowning in boating-related incidents. About one in five people who die from drowning are children 14 and younger.Apr 28, 2016
some time ago there were stats showing we lose 52 americans each day due to illegal immigrants driving drunk
I hda thought 93 million were dying EVERY DAY from gun violence here in the United States - this on good authority from Terry McAuliffe.
BBC Can’t do Simple Math, when it Comes to Kids and Guns
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2017/06/bbc-cant-do-simple-math-when-it-comes.html
That’s the same kid in every picture, and it looks like someone has shown him relatively consistent safe handling as he doesn’t have a finger on the trigger in them (except maybe #1, but that’s hanging).
And PP kills how many?
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