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Jonny

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15. Missed the Point

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 12:29 PM

Dec 2012

I can see that mostly gun supporters answered my post.

I case you didn't get it, I don't actually believe that gun shots are the leading cause of death among children.

If you have to argue for gun ownership here or give stats about gun deaths going down, then I don't think you and I are on the same page.

I am saying that any deaths of children by shooting are unacceptable.

I am also saying that you gun supporters, yah the ones that answered here, have done your best to enable this shooting.

You took the bait and exposed yourself here.

Sorry about that! (Not really)

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Cause of Death among School Children [View all] Jonny Dec 2012 OP

STOP CALLING IT A GUN PROBLEM! RomneyLies Dec 2012 #1

The gun violence rate is half what it was 20 years ago (nt) Recursion Dec 2012 #4

Does that include U.S. mass murders and rampage killings? Fridays Child Dec 2012 #6

Yes. Did you seriously not know that? Recursion Dec 2012 #7

Obviously, my question wasn't about general gun violence statistics. Fridays Child Dec 2012 #8

No, they've gone somewhat up, but are a tiny fraction of all murders Recursion Dec 2012 #9

Your charts don't split out violence by type of weapon. kwassa Dec 2012 #10

Murders by gun remain a little over half of murders. They've gone down with the overall rate Recursion Dec 2012 #12

Here is a table from DoJ kwassa Dec 2012 #13

Yes. Note that's an *absolute* drop, not just a per 100,000 drop Recursion Dec 2012 #14

no WooWooWoo Dec 2012 #2

For children age 5-9, the most common causes of death are, in order Recursion Dec 2012 #3

It's certainly true in my city frazzled Dec 2012 #5

I think there are still probably way more car accidents JVS Dec 2012 #11

Missed the Point Jonny Dec 2012 #15

Lame GeorgeGist Dec 2012 #16