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richarcm

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Guns are completely safe — as long as they’re unloaded, locked away, and never touched. But as soon as a bullet enters the chamber and a hand nears the trigger, guns become a serious hazard to children. In the United States 2,852 children and teenagers died of gunshot wounds in 2004, and more than four times that many suffered acute injuries — many of them in the home.
Of course, the surest way to protect your child from guns is to keep them out of his life.


When is a child old enough to use a gun responsibly?
Never, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. This is what the distinguished organization has to say about children and guns: Never allow your child access to your gun(s). No matter how much instruction you may give him or her, a youngster in the middle years is not mature and responsible enough to handle a potentially lethal weapon. Certainly the recent wave of school massacres give ample evidence of that.


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Our founding fathers beg to disagree.

"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."

-Richard Henry Lee, Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, initiator of the Declaration of Independence, and member of the first Senate, which passed the Bill of Rights.
(source: http://www.constitution.org/mil/rkba1982.htm)
 

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Subject: http://www.cvshealthresources.com/topic/kidsguns

You wrote "Certainly the recent wave of school massacres give ample evidence of that." The bad guy shooters are vastly beyond the "middle years" of which a parent must be concerned. I wonder, is CVS so careless as this with facts and statistics in medicine?

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Doug Huffman wrote:
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Subject: http://www.cvshealthresources.com/topic/kidsguns

You wrote "Certainly the recent wave of school massacres give ample evidence of that." The bad guy shooters are vastly beyond the "middle years" of which a parent must be concerned. I wonder, is CVS so careless as this with facts and statistics in medicine?

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Here are some other statistics that they need to look at if they are really concerned about child safety.

In 2003, for the United States, the Centers for Disease Control reports that 28 children under age 10 died from accidental shots. With some 90 million gun owners and about 40 million children under 10, it is hard to find any item as commonly owned in American homes, as potentially as lethal, that has as low of an accidental death rate.

From 1995 to 2001 only about nine of these accidental gun deaths each year involve a child under 10 shooting another child or themselves.

Over 1,400 children were killed by cars, almost 260 of those deaths were young pedestrians. Bicycle and space heater accidents take many times more children’s lives than guns. Over 90 drowned in bathtubs. The most recent yearly data available indicates that over 30 children under age 5 drowned in five-gallon plastic water buckets.

When they use a statistic like "2,852 children and teenagers died of gunshot wounds in 2004" they include intentional murders and gang violence against people up to 20 years of age. Not just accidents involving children.
 
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Gordie wrote:
Here are some other statistics that they need to look at if they are really concerned about child safety.

In 2003, for the United States, the Centers for Disease Control reports that 28 children under age 10 died from accidental shots. With some 90 million gun owners and about 40 million children under 10, it is hard to find any item as commonly owned in American homes, as potentially as lethal, that has as low of an accidental death rate.

From 1995 to 2001 only about nine of these accidental gun deaths each year involve a child under 10 shooting another child or themselves.

Over 1,400 children were killed by cars, almost 260 of those deaths were young pedestrians. Bicycle and space heater accidents take many times more children’s lives than guns. Over 90 drowned in bathtubs. The most recent yearly data available indicates that over 30 children under age 5 drowned in five-gallon plastic water buckets.

When they use a statistic like "2,852 children and teenagers died of gunshot wounds in 2004" they include intentional murders and gang violence against people up to 20 years of age. Not just accidents involving children.

Here is some newer data; from 2005 (most recent data) for pediatric age children 0-15 years of age.

Accidental Discharge of firearm 75

Falls 82

Poison 92

Drowning 810

Fire 1,270

Transportation 2,340

The only way to come near to their total is to include all non accidental deaths and the data foryoung adults, which goes clear up to 25.

My figures are for 2005, but they don't really change much year to year/

If they really care about children, they will get them out of cars.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/deaths.htm
 

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What is funny about these numbers is that they tend to include "children" involved in gang banging, drug dealing and illicit behavior. Most of the "cildren" shot by firearms are seasoned bad guys in their teens. Of course, they wouldn't get shot if we made it illegal for them to have guns... right? Oh wait, it already is illegal for them to have guns. Didn't they know that? :banghead:
 

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Is this guy old enough? He is 4 already.

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American Academy of Pediatricians appears to be their source and I think we all know what kind of agenda they are pushing what with their recommended questionnaires for parents including guns in the home and such.
 

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deepdiver wrote:
American Academy of Pediatricians appears to be their source and I think we all know what kind of agenda they are pushing what with their recommended questionnaires for parents including guns in the home and such.

I've already instructed my family to answer "Since the CDC reports that more people were killed by bad doctors and hospitals than by guns, we choose not to answer."

BTW, the Walgreens website only advises keeping guns and ammo separate and locked up. They make no mortality report.
 

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richarcm wrote:
In the United States 2,852 children and teenagers died of gunshot wounds in 2004
More like 2,800 were gangstas killed by other gangstas, and the other 52 might actually qualify as "children".
 

ItsMyRight2Carry

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"2,852 children and teenagers died of gunshot wounds in 2004"

Here are some recent statistics from the http://www.iihs.org (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety):

A total of 4,946 teenagers ages 13-19 died in motor vehicle crashes in 2007

A total of 1,264 children (children below age 13) died in motor vehicle crashes in 2007



In order to save the lives of 6210 children, we should probably outlaw automobiles...
 
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