Guns sent 20 children to U.S. hospitals every single day, study finds

LATimes ^ | 1-27-14 | Melissa Healy

[RandallFlagg]

Twenty children or adolescents were hospitalized for firearm-related injuries every day in 2009, and 453 died of their wounds, a new report says.

[Mark17]

Lies, damn lies and statistics. Numbers are routinely tortured twisted and abused to meet any and all agenda.

The way I heard it, is lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.

[MeshugeMikey]

Total number of abortions in the U.S. 1973-2011: 54.5 million+ 234 abortions per 1,000 live births (according to the Centers for Disease Control)

Abortions per year: 1.2 million

Abortions per day: 3,288

Abortions per hour: 137

9 abortions every 4 minutes

1 abortion every 26 seconds

32oo murders by "medicine" per day now these are some SCAREY Numbers

[lurk]

Key word, children. The brain goes from rational thought to sympathetic thought when the word is used.

So, how many people end up in the hospital every day because of a slip/fall injury in the bathtub?

[bigheadfred]

i looked

"traverse an expansive urban environment overrun by a vicious outbreak"

i think it has already happened

keep on

[RandallFlagg]

Key word, children. The brain goes from rational thought to sympathetic thought when the word is used.

So, how many people end up in the hospital every day because of a slip/fall injury in the bathtub?

I am so happy that I got this article on FRee Republic, and the conversation commenced.

We need to keep an eye on this kind of journalistic BS.

However, I must keep doing my research on obtaining a suppressor for my Wife's and my home defense weapons

There was a home invasion four freaking blocks from our house 2 weeks ago, and I need to continue my work on this.

I don't really think that blood running from my family's eardrums after opening fire with our .45 ACPs and 12 gauge Mossbergs should be the price paid for defending my family from a gang of thugs.

Please keep the conversation running here, FRiends.

Knowledge is power!

[BatGuano]

Divide 1,500,000 by 365, equals 4,110. Not picking on your stats but I have read that 1.5 million per year is the average since Roe v. Wade.

The gun is not the criminal, it is the mind of the mother and a complicit state.

[Nuc 1.1]

Wonder how many were gang bangers.

[marktwain]

I do not think the FBI is telling the truth about non-hispanic whites and hispanics:

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/01/european-murder-rates-compared-to.html

[familyop]

The medical rackets comprise an enormous, influential socialist constituency.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

How many of these “children” were gang bangers, shot by other gang bangers? According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, the majority of “children” murdered were killed by adults.

“According to the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment report, gangs are responsible for an average of 48 percent of violent crime in most jurisdictions, and up to 90 percent in others.”

[familyop]

"Twenty children or adolescents..."

"Adolescents," eh? Gangstas! The anti-Second-Amendment medical racket is so honest (big chunk of irony and sarcasm there).

[RandallFlagg]

Off subject...

Isn’t the SOTU speech supposed to be happening right now?

Or, did I miss it?
I have my booze all set up and ready for the drinking game.

Just askin’.

;-)

[Mastador1]

BS... show me the statistics...

Are they talking about kids playing with toy guns that were shot by easily panicked police?

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

There are roughly 32,000 gun deaths per year in the United States. Of those, around 60% are suicides. About 3% are accidental deaths (less than 1,000). About 34% of deaths (just over 11,000 in both 2010 and 2011) make up the remainder of gun deaths. Sometimes the 32,000 and 11,000 figures are used interchangeably by gun control advocates. Clearly, the 32,000 figure is a far more dramatic number and is often used for impact. These numbers are also regularly compared to other countries' gun statistics. But are they true? Here, we will examine some of the most common gun control arguments used and put those figures into perspective.

[chris37]

LMAO :D

I think it’s really people doing that to ^^

[Amendment10]

What percent of that “number” are drug related or inner city black on black murders in the Hell holes like Chicago, Detriot and LA?

Thanks for mentioning that. That's what I was wondering, particularly with Chicago.

Also note that swimming pools are more deadly than guns are for kids.

FR: Swimming Pools Six Times as Deadly for Kids as Guns

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Waste of good alcohol. Anything that tyrannical buffoon says are just things conservative Republicans will have to undo after he is out of office. Hopefully he will retire to Haiti, and proclaim himself king, like Henri Christophe.

[Darksheare]

And it hasn’t moved once.
Reporters always ascribe violence committed with a gun to the gun.
Never to the person committing the act.
(To a lesser extent they do the same with SUV’s.)
If guns did not exist, those acts would be done with some other item.
But apparently that is thinking above their level.

[Daffynition]

And how many children in hospitals will die today of doctors’ stupidity?

[liberalh8ter]

How many children are sent to hospitals each day due to parental neglect or abuse?