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Guns kill 1,300 US children every year, study finds
BBC News ^ | 20th June 2017 | BBC News

Posted on 06/19/2017 4:41:53 PM PDT by Ennis85

About 1,300 US children under the age of 17 die from gun-related injuries per year, a government study has found. Researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also found that guns seriously wounded about 5,800 children each year. Boys accounted for 82% of all child firearm deaths while black children were 10 times more likely to be killed by a gun, according to the study. More than half of these deaths were homicides while 38% were ruled suicide. The study, published in Pediatrics on Monday, also found 6% of firearm-related deaths were fatalities from accidental gun injuries.

"Firearm injuries are a leading cause of death among US children aged one to 17 years and contribute substantially each year to premature death, illness and disability of children," said CDC's Katherine Fowler, who led the study. "About 19 children a day die or are medically treated in an emergency department for a gunshot wound in the US," she told Reuters. CDC researchers examined national data in what they describe as "the most comprehensive examination of current firearm-related deaths and injuries among children in the United States to date". The study found a 60% increase in gun suicides from 2007-15, according an analysis of national injury records.

Suicide was most likely to occur when children were dealing with stressful circumstances or relationship problems with a boyfriend, girlfriend or family member, the study revealed. White children and Native American children were four to five times more likely to die by firearm suicide. Accidental gun deaths appeared to happen most frequently among children playing with firearms.

The study comes as a four-year-old Pennsylvania boy shot himself in the face and died on Sunday. Police in Monroe County have not charged anyone in the boy's death.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; control; deathtoll; gun; kidrobbers; nra; suicide; violence
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To: Ennis85

Planned Parenthood and their kind killed 664,435 in 2013.
To date since Roe v Wade an estimated 51,888,303 million babies have been murdered by Planned Parenthood and others.


21 posted on 06/19/2017 4:50:45 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Ennis85

No mention of the savages behind them


22 posted on 06/19/2017 4:50:47 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: Sasparilla
....black children were 10 times more likely to be killed by a gun...

Correction: WITH a gun. By a human WITH a gun, not by a gun all by itself. Journalists. Sheesh.

23 posted on 06/19/2017 4:52:54 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: Ennis85

“White children and Native American children were four to five times more likely to die by firearm suicide.”

That’s an interesting data point.

Why are non-white and non Native American kids so less likely to suicide with a firearm?

It is probably not access to firearms as gun violence among blacks is significantly higher than among whites.

How are black families preventing their children from committing suicide?


24 posted on 06/19/2017 4:53:29 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: ealgeone

We are way past 60 million aborted babies since 1973.

The records we do have do not include NY and CA, who refuse to report their abortion statistics.

And the most comprehensive stats come from the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which happens to be a wholly owned subsidiary of Planned Parenthood, Inc.

Then, let’s add those who would have been born to those who were aborted in the last 44 years.

We are close to 100 million.


25 posted on 06/19/2017 4:54:58 PM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: Ennis85

How many of those guns were legally owned?

The fact that nearly all of them are homicides and Suicides shows that “gun safety” is not the problem.

6% of 1300 is 78 young people under 17 a year.

It is easy to give up other people’s freedom for your agenda.


26 posted on 06/19/2017 4:56:17 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Ennis85

I have it on good authority, Terry McAuliffe, that 94 million Americans are killed daily by firearms. Fair Dinkum, Terry.


27 posted on 06/19/2017 4:56:19 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yep


28 posted on 06/19/2017 4:56:30 PM PDT by Susan360
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To: Ennis85

Unintentional gun deaths in 2015 for all persons were 489.


29 posted on 06/19/2017 4:58:10 PM PDT by pleasenotcalifornia
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To: Ennis85

Let me guess, cars kill more children?


30 posted on 06/19/2017 4:58:15 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Ennis85

The only relevant statistic is how many of them were 15-17 yr old gang bangers.


31 posted on 06/19/2017 4:58:21 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: ConservativeMind

“Across U.S. metropolitan areas, 15 percent of those arrested for homicide in 2015 were adolescents, compared to 25 percent in Chicago...

...Gun violence suspects continue to be people with extensive prior criminal records.

Individuals arrested for a homicide or shooting in Chicago in 2016 and 2015 had similar prior criminal records: around 90 percent had at least one prior arrest, approximately 50 percent had a prior arrest for a violent crime specifically, and almost 40 percent had a prior gun arrest. The average person arrested for a homicide or shooting in both years had nearly 12 prior arrests, with almost 45 percent having had more than 10 prior arrests, and almost 20 percent having had more than 20 prior arrests.”

http://urbanlabs.uchicago.edu/attachments/store/2435a5d4658e2ca19f4f225b810ce0dbdb9231cbdb8d702e784087469ee3/UChicagoCrimeLab+Gun+Violence+in+Chicago+2016.pdf


32 posted on 06/19/2017 5:00:01 PM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: Ennis85
BBC cannot even get it right. It says children under 17.

But the quote from the study says: “US children aged one to 17 years”.

It is an enormous difference, because the number of children go jump up enormously as they reach to the early 20’s. By including 17 year olds, they increased the number about 30%.

33 posted on 06/19/2017 5:01:06 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Ennis85

15-17 year olds are not children.


34 posted on 06/19/2017 5:01:31 PM PDT by Seruzawa (FABOL)
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To: Ennis85

35 posted on 06/19/2017 5:02:54 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
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To: Ennis85

Without demographics, completely useless.


36 posted on 06/19/2017 5:04:40 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: BenLurkin
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37 posted on 06/19/2017 5:07:34 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (If a cow ever got the chance, heÂ’d eat you and everyone you ever cared about.)
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To: Ennis85
Boys accounted for 82% of all child firearm deaths

Guns in America have been getting up and attacking children, according to the headline. But gosh, stats seem a little one-sided in the male direction for a random slaughter at the hands (so to speak) of inanimate objects. And when they refer to deceased "children," I guess they're hoping that in our minds' eye we see 6-year-old, blue-eyed, curly-headed moppets in pinafores. Rather than unwashed, 16- and 17-year old gang-bangers who buy or steal guns (which are always illegal in liberal cities) in order to kill each other.

Let me guess: Chi-town, E St. Louis, Balmer, E LA, and Oakland head the list, mebbe? Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.

The ones who really could not give a cr*p if "minority" boys are killing each other in the streets are the minority politicians who make a fat living "governing" these hell-holes and living in gated communities in the 'burbs.

38 posted on 06/19/2017 5:07:35 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: doorgunner69

The demographics are in there.


39 posted on 06/19/2017 5:07:46 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Ennis85

I guess they still consider 21 year olds as “children”. Liberals, always lying.


40 posted on 06/19/2017 5:09:51 PM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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