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Originally Posted by Dozer523
You don't like the choice of the number "one"?
Would you prefer 2,947? That's the number of children and teens who died from gunfire in 2008.
Or maybe 2,793? That's the number of children who died from gunfire in 2009.
How about 3,625? That is the peak number of child homicides committed in 1993.
Maybe 13,791? that is the number of children and teens who were injured by gunfire in 2009.
I have one more, 20,596. Thats the decade high (2000-2010) the number of kids injured by gunfire in 2008.
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Ah yes, the BSN (Big Scary Numbers) defense. You don't happen to have the percentage of those numbers attributable to suicides, do you? How about the number of those deaths where the youth was shot and killed because he/she was engaged in a criminal act? Even better, the number of those kids that were shot by law enforcement officers in the performance of their duties? Without that kind of detailed analysis, tossing out numbers like that has a sort of Dentyne feel to it; you know, a "4 out of 5 liberals think that guns are scary and should be outlawed to make them feel better" sort of ring?
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I'm looking for a similar study detailing children who die in traffic.
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As for studies on stuff that kills kids, here are a couple of interesting ones that may be worth a look, and have some pretty current statistics:
http://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreation...factsheet.html
http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafet...factsheet.html
Oddly enough, I haven't heard any calls for cars to be governed so they only go 25 mph, or banning fast sports cars, or mandatory installation of breathalyzers connected to car ignitions, or raising the driving age to 21, or limiting pools to a depth of 2 feet, or mandating anyone within 1000 feet of a body of water wear a life jacket.