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CNN Cites Accidental Gun Deaths of Children, 27x Lower than Accidental Car Deaths, as Reason for More Gun Control
Breitbart ^ | 06.28.2023 | AWR HAWKINS

Posted on 06/28/2023 8:05:55 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

CNN pushed gun control by citing accidental gun death figures for children but omitted the fact that car accidents kill 27 times more children.

In a Monday article CNN pointed to a study in the Injury Epidemiology journal, which “looked at cases over a nearly a decade in which children under 15 accidentally killed themselves or another child with a gun.”

It noted that using “data from 2009 to 2018 across 33 states, the team counted 279 cases in which kids under 15 accidentally died due to firearm injury.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: banglist; children; cnn; deaths; gun
CNN could care less. They will still run with it
1 posted on 06/28/2023 8:05:55 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Now tell us how many kids drowned in swimming pools over that period of time.


2 posted on 06/28/2023 8:10:44 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I hope CNN mentioned how important it is the mask and vax your babies too.


3 posted on 06/28/2023 8:11:18 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There was a study, many years ago, into the nature of “accidental” childhood deaths involving guns.

The vast majority involved guns that were illegally possessed. A cousin or an older brother, involved in gangs or drugs, leaving a gun around where a child could find it.

I see no mechanism by which additional restrictions on legal gun owners could have any effect.


4 posted on 06/28/2023 8:11:26 AM PDT by jdege
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m for CNN control. shipping them back to China.


5 posted on 06/28/2023 8:13:40 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! there is no coexistence wi)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Shouldn’t they call for a ban on kids in cars?


6 posted on 06/28/2023 8:21:19 AM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I think more kids die from being left in the kiddie car seat in a hot car than ever died from auto accidents.

The legal requirement for a child car seat was just the beginning of the state’s attempt to separate parent from child.

I did just fine w/my mother holding me in her lap in the front seat when I was tiny.


7 posted on 06/28/2023 8:23:26 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Communist News Network


8 posted on 06/28/2023 8:24:20 AM PDT by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Leftists love government and control.

They cannot understand the concept of nemesis--that any good thing taken sufficiently to its extreme becomes a bad thing, viz. a nemesis.

Government is necessary of course, and when government is small and uncomplicated enough for the people to control it, its benefit is a good thing; however, when government becomes sufficiently large, powerful, and complicated to control the people, its tyranny becomes a very bad thing.

Government--the best government ever devised, is a necessary evil. It enforces its authority by violence or threat of violence. It must be kept small enough to be controlled by the people.

Leftists cannot understand this. Such is their fundamental stupidity

9 posted on 06/28/2023 8:24:20 AM PDT by Savage Beast (We have a choice: darkness and decadence or light and ascendancy. You deserve what you choose.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They are NOT accidental when a child has access to a gun. When a three year old shoots a 2 year old sibling, GUNS AREN’T THE PROBLEM. When a 6 year old takes a gun to school and shoots his teacher, GUNS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM. When a drug addict is found to illegally possess a firearm and a plea deal is made to dismiss the gun felony, GUNS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM.


10 posted on 06/28/2023 8:42:04 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (A man in NM is killed over a movie theater seat. The azhos in The Swamp think guns are the problem. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wonder how many lives are saved by a would-be attacker’s fear that he would be shot if he goes ahead with an attack.


11 posted on 06/28/2023 8:53:50 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Reno89519

Shouldn’t they call for a ban on kids in cars?


Well, the move is afoot to ban cars for the common folk anyway, in the name of ‘the planet’, the climate, equity, etc. etc.—might as well add child safety to the mix.


12 posted on 06/28/2023 9:10:38 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So when do CNN employees start showing up to work with serious injuries or just dead? Asking for a friend.


13 posted on 06/28/2023 1:58:49 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (Treason is the reason for Democrat Sedition & Subversion)
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