Beckel probably has that figure confused with how many $20 prostitutes he has been with this year.
Wonder how many lives were saved in the same time period?...
You know..... by fire arms.. ‘nives.. and tire irons..
This show won't last long!
OK! In the same time period, how many cilgren drowned in bath tubs??
Gang Banging is NOT an “accident”!!!!!
Once the statistics of reality are sacrificed for the “fantasies of bandwidth”. Last time I checked you had to make “chidren span from 3 yrs to 24 in order to make the numbers the anti’s proclaimed work.
I suspect the single larges killer of children is pools - from inflatable wading to backyard in/above ground. Second is probably household cleaning products or OTC medicines with bikes running close behind. >PS
The CDC has a good site for this kind of data.
2007, United States
Unintentional Injuries - Firearm
Ages 1-18, All Races, Both Sexes
Total Deaths: 121
(One fatal accident for children under 1).
Breaking it down by age range, the fatals were:
Ages 1-4: 18
Ages 5-10: 20
Ages 11-14: 26
Ages 15-18: 57
http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus10.html
The TOTAL (all ages) recorded fatal firearm accidents in the US in 2007 was 612.
What do minors need a gun in a mine anyway? I’d think they’d be too busy digging coal or whatever.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lott/lott57.html
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.
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Fear about guns also seems greatest among those who know the least about them.
For example, those unfamiliar with guns don't realize that most young children simply couldn't fire your typical semi-automatic pistol. Even the few who posses the strength to pull back the slide on the gun are unlikely to know that they must do that to put the bullet in the chamber or that they need to switch off the safety.
With so many greater dangers facing children everyday from common household items, it is not obvious why guns have been singled out. Here are some of the other ways that children under 10 died in 2004.
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.
Yet, the real problem with this gun phobia is that without guns, victims are much more vulnerable to criminal attack. Guns are used defensively some 2 million times each year. Even though the police are extremely important in reducing crime, they simply can't be there all the time and virtually always arrive after the crime has been committed. Having a gun is by far the safest course of action when one is confronted by a criminal.
The cases where young children use guns to save their family's lives rarely makes the news. Recent examples where children's lives were clearly lost because guns were locked and inaccessible are ignored.
Myth: 13 children are killed each day by guns
Fact: Adults included – This “statistic” includes “children” up to age 19 or 24, depending on the source. Most violent crime is committed by males ages 16-24, these numbers end up including adult gang members dying during criminal activity. The proper definition of ‘child’ is a person between birth and puberty (typically 13-14 years old).
Fact: 339 children (age 14 and under) died from gunfire in all of 2006, or fewer than one per day. This includes homicides and accidents combined.
Fact: Criminals are included - 70% of these deaths are juveniles or adults, ages 17 to 20, during gang warfare. Child Homicides
play with guns or are hunting.
Hunting what? other gang bangers?? shouldnt even count them.
Ummm, most of the dead are probably gang members and drug pushers... under 21 is a minor. What is Beckel trying to do?
Beckel is a Whore-Hirer.
Baghdad Bob Beckel the Bloviating Bolshevik Barf-Breathed Buffalo?