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You know, you people really annoy the s*** out of my who immediately label as a TROLL any relative newbie who didn't join way back in 1998, and who shows ANY evidence whatsoever of being an independent thinker rather than just a "YEAH, BABY, ME TOO!" dittohead who just automatically SECONDS every single damn thing that is said in this forum.
I may have only officially joined this forum post-911, but if you BOTHERED to actually READ any of the posts and other meaningful information I've contributed, you would know that not only am I not a troll, I've contributed a HELL of a lot more to this forum lately than you have.
If you had any independent thinking skills you would realize those statistics are misleading, if not entirely fabricated.
In 1994, every day, 16 children age 19 and under were killed with gun...
Simple arithmetic leads to a number of 5,840 children and young adults were slain by firearms. There are several problems with this statistic. One, this is much more than the figure reported by the US DOJ and the UN WHO. Two, this figure does not distinguish accential death from deliberate homicide. Three, it does not distinguish between children and adults. Anyone over the age of 18 is legally an adult, and including them into a figure for the deaths of children is inaccurate.
If you actually were an independent thinker, you would realize you are being fed a line. If you separate 17 - 19 year olds from your figure, the number of firearm related fatalities drops more than order of magniture. Clearly, something different is going on with this other age bracket.