Posted on 08/24/2019 4:11:23 AM PDT by marktwain
Did you know that there are more fatal accidents involving children and bicycles than there are involving children and guns?
It is documented in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) fatal injury database.
As you can see from the illustration, for the last 19 years, from 1999 to 2017, there were 2,467 children killed in fatal accidents involving bicycles, versus 1,994 children killed in fatal accidents involving a firearm.
Total accidental deaths of children (unintended deaths). Data from WISQARS database, Image created by Dean Weingarten, 14 August 2019.
Both of the rates are very low. The firearm rate is 1.4 per million children; the bicycle rate is 1.8 per million children. There are numerous things far more commonly involved in unintended deaths than bicycles or guns for children.
The total accidental deaths of children (unintended deaths) from 1999 to 2017 were 135,259. Fatal firearms accidents were 1.47 percent of the total. Many other circumstances accounted for much higher numbers of unintentional deaths than those occurring with firearms. Here are numbers from the CDC database for the same period, 1999-2017, for children aged 0 – 17.
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Shaky argument because helmet laws.
Banning bicycles has not political advantage to the people who want to rule.
actually, it’s a shaky argument because this is liberal logic. Your headline says, “Bicycle Accidents Kill More Children than Guns”; when it should say Bicycle Accidents Kill More Children than Gun ACCIDENTS..... Only a liberal would bite on that.
I don’t write the headlines.
The key word in that is accident. Nobody used a bicycle to kill 22 people in a Walmart.
There are any number of valid reasons to use to oppose all these knee-jerk gun control proposals but stupid comparisons like this aren't the way to go about it.
Stop making sense!
Gun violence in the u s. is extremely overhyped. we have a gun problem but it is a small compared to illegal drugs and smoking. we have a general population that believes everything the nightly news tells them or the local fish rag prints. Media is driving this agenda , not facts.
The idea is to make people believe guns have negative utility, and are not valuable for self defense.
Most people are not afraid of suicide, and homicide is an argument to *have* guns for self defense.
I disagree.
It's important to create awareness of relative scale.
My cousin, who works at a public school just a few miles from the Parkland School massacre, has become an anti-gun zealot.
She is also a dog lover, and I pointed out that the total death toll from “assault” weapons in mass shootings (at that time) was just over 300, but the death toll from dog attacks was over 1,100.
I know I can't change her mind, but it's important to fight back - rhetorically - with every factual weapon you can find.
Most bicycles aren’t scary looking and there are no mass bicycling deaths ... so no, there’s no cry for banning them.
Abortion has killed millions more children.
Same story with the alleged opioid crisis.
Prescription opioids kill a fraction of one percent of the USA adult population each year.
The result?
Millions of Americans with severe pain must now beg for pain medication every month.
Secondary result - utterly useless “pain clinics” are scoring record profits.
I wonder if there are statistics on people shooting guns while bicycling?
But they are trying to ban children.
I recall a picture of barack showing us how to ride a bicycle very safely. He really set such a good example.
My sister got something jammed in the front tire of her bicycle when she was around 14 years old. The front tire locked up, it flipped her over, and then the back tire came around, knocked some teeth out, and rearranged her face.
Even though the police came quickly, and spent hours searching for a gun, they couldn’t find it. To their last days, they must still believe there was one involved. Why? Because bicycles don’t hurt kids, guns do.
Yes, well bikes can’t be used against rogue politicians, so that’s why.
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