write to the paper and correct them
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just pick a lie from the article, and a fact from below!!
I can't make it any easier.
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from gunfacts v 3.2
Fact: Children are 12 times more likely to die in an automobile accident than from gun-related
homicides or legal interventions (being shot by a cop, for example) if they are age 0-14. For the
group 0-24 years old (which bends the definition of ‘child’ quite a bit), the rate is still 8.6 times
higher for cars.73
Fact: In 1996, there were only 21 accidental firearm deaths for children under age 15. Contrast
this with 40 kids under age five that drowned in buckets and 80 that drowned in tubs (i.e. parents
could have prevented six (6) times as many drowning deaths as they could firearm deaths).74
Fact: And things are getting better. Accidental firearm injuries for children and adolescents
dropped 37% from 1993 to 1997, with the fastest drop – a 64% reduction – being for children.75
Fact: Boys who own legal firearms have much lower rates of delinquency and drug use and are
even less delinquent than non-owners of guns.76
Fact: The non-gun homicide rate for children in the U.S. is more than twice as high than other
western countries. And eight times as many children die from non-gun violent acts than from
gun crimes.77 This indicates that the problem is violence, not guns.
Fact: Fatal gun accidents for children ages 0-14 declined by almost 46% from 1975 to 1995, and
60% for all ages – all while the number of guns per capita increased by almost 40%.
Fact: 82% of homicides to children age 13 and under were committed without a gun.78
Fact: 0% of kids that get guns from their parents commit gun-related crimes while 21% of those
that get them illegally do.79
Fact: Almost twice as many kids (24%) commit any type of street crime if they get guns
illegally, as opposed to kids given guns by their parents and taught the proper way to use them
(14%).80
Fact: Almost three times as many kids (41%) take drugs if they also obtain guns illegally, as
compared to kids given guns by their parents (13%).
73 1997 National Center for Health Statistics National Vital Statistics Report
74 Centers for Disease Control, 1999
75 “Firearms Injury Surveillance Studyâ€, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, December 2001
76 U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention,
NCJ-143454, "Urban Delinquency and Substance Abuse," August 1995.
77 Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention , “Kids and Gunsâ€, 2000
78 FBI Uniform Crime Statistics, 1997
79 U.S. Justice Department, “Urban Delinquency and Substance Abuseâ€, 2000
80 Ibid.:banghead:
....don't they ever get called on this blatant nonsense?
