Gun Control & RKBA

Eleanors38

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8. "...more often than you might think?" Well, here is the comparative data?

Mon May 2, 2016, 04:58 PM

May 2016

What were the numbers five years ago? 10? 20?

Twenty-three (23) instances in a year with a population of 310,000,000+ people is a very small number.

I welcme a little comparison data to show a trend which somehow lights up the radar picking up 23. Going from eighteen (18) to twenty-three (23) doesn't seem to be a sea-change. BTW, in the dodge ball reporting, it is unclear how many of the 23 were fatalities; in any case, it's all thrown into the stew of eighteen-or-younger the news media chooses to use as a marker. (IIRC, the National Safety Council defines "child" as 15 yoa or younger for children killed in gun accidents.)

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"...more often than you might think?" Well, here is the comparative data? Eleanors38 May 2016 #8