Journal of Trauma: More U.S. Children Die Where Guns Are Common-Study

yahoo.com ^ | Feb 28, 2002 7:04 PM ET | Christopher Noble

[go star go]

DAMN! I bet you states with the highest number of cars have the highest number of car accidents too! What a concept...

[go star go]

I suppose a man could have concluded from the evidence given that the low gunownership states had such an enlightened population that they intervened with the child before gunplay ensued? You feed a kid enough drugs and they just lay around and would not shoot themselves or others. I bet you the study didn't look at such possibilities...

[Buffalo Bob]

More children are recruited into homosexuality
in areas with high homosexual infestation rates!

[lavaroise]

What morons. They should stay away from defining me according to their sick books and mind because I own a gun. Talk about people who pretend to be against vigilantism of the kind seen in Afghanistan. Maybe they should join those muslim crowds and child killers. Seems like they fit the crowd in their definitional and "scientifical" vigilantism.

A 2 cents web site

www.vigilantealert.i8.com

[lavaroise]

TheMatrix has us

[Cincinatus' Wife]

DAMN! I bet you states with the highest number of cars have the highest number of car accidents too!

But they can tax and regulate cars.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

LINK is bad.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

What morons.

Bump!

[Militiaman7]

What do you want to bet that more children die from misdiagnosis of illness and wrong prescriptions than from gun accidents, murders and suicides combined.

[metesky]

"Although no conclusions about cause and effect can be made, this study provides compelling evidence that states with high firearm availability are states with high childhood firearm death rates," Dr. Therese Richmond of the University of Pennsylvania's Firearm Injury Center wrote in an editorial.

Doctoress Richmond contradicts herself after mistakenly letting the cat out of the bag.

If one can draw no conclusions, there is no compelling evidence.

What is "is".

[Rustynailww]

"What is "is"."........whatever they say it is.

[GailA]

DUMB downed to the point that COMMON sense is no longer used. I grew up in a household that had guns, IF I'd have touched my dad's guns I'd got a belt applied to by backside ASAP.

My kids grew up with guns in the house. The same rule applied. Never had problems with them. Used the same rule about them getting into the Med cabinet in the bathroom.

IF you want ammo for countering this garbage the BJS provides a most excellent reason to not only arm yourself but to counter the gun grabbers. In 1991, 45% of the UNREGISTERED, UNLICENSED GOVERNMENT SUPERVISED convicted felons on probation or parole SLAUGHTERED 13,200 men, women and children in the US. That is the population of a small town! Click Here

[.45MAN]

Something just doesn't smell right here, and I don't think it's my computer.....

[aruanan]

Journal of Trauma: More U.S. Children Die Where Guns Are Common-Study

And how many children die where bicycles are common? The number of childhood gun injuries per gun is minuscule compared to the number of childhood injuries per bicycle (or car). And how many assaults against families were halted, resulting in no death or injuries, because of a gun? Failing to report this and concentrating on the other is like reporting, "FOOD KILLS--The Shame of America. Sub-Saharan Africa has a much lower rate of childhood obesity-related diseases than the dangerous U.S.A.. What Are We Doing Wrong?"

[Cincinatus' Wife]

What is "is".

An AGENDA!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

And how many assaults against families were halted, resulting in no death or injuries, because of a gun?

Conflicting data won't compute in their "study."

[Cincinatus' Wife]

You feed a kid enough drugs and they just lay around and would not shoot themselves or others.

But they say drugs help children focus.

[fporretto]

This is what Thomas Sowell called "bundling" in his book The Vision Of The Anointed. We have three bad things bundled together -- murder, suicide, and accidental death. Murder is unlikely to be the result of owning a firearm; it's much more likely to be the consequence of being targeted by a predator, especially when the victim is a preadolescent child. We also have a sneaky ball-under-the-shirt play: "regions with high firearms ownership." (Legal firearms ownership? And how much greater than the level of firearms ownership of the "low firearms ownership" regions was that in the "high firearms ownership" regions? Did the measure used include illegally owned guns?)

Still more unqualified and unquantified factors remain. At no time are we told whether law enforcement or gang violence played any part in the deaths. At no time are we told about per capita juvenile death rates. At no time are we told about non-firearm-related juvenile deaths for the trial period. And of course, as others have already noted, no attention is paid to net effects: how many lives were saved by private use of firearms.

Just one more day in media hell.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[GnL]

"Although no conclusions about cause and effect can be made..."

This is the only part of the article that is worth the pixels it is written on. The rest is mere slight of hand and brainwashing.