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In reply to the discussion: Sarasota Mother Shot Her Daughter, 1, Then Turned Gun on Herself [View all]Hekate
(100,133 posts)Sorry for not getting the years for the data to match up, but I am sure you can get the point. If you want to.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/consumerawareness/a/homedrowning.htm
An average of about 240 children under 5 years old drown in swimming pools nationwide each year. But CPSC also has reports of about 110 children under 5 who have drowned in other products in and around the home each year. These products include bathtubs, hot tubs, spas, buckets and other containers.
More children drown in bathtubs than in any other product in the home. In 2001 (the most recent year of complete data), CPSC reported 72 children under 5 who drowned in bathtubs, and more than half were under 1 year old.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/11/guns-child-deaths-more-than-cancer/2073259/
In 2010, 15,576 children and teenagers were injured by firearms three times more than the number of U.S. soldiers injured in the war in Afghanistan, according to the defense fund.
Nationally, guns still kill twice as many children and young people than cancer, five times as many than heart disease and 15 times more than infection, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.
http://www.childrensdefense.org/child-research-data-publications/data/protect-children-not-guns-2012.pdf
5,740 children and teens died from gunfire in the United States in 2008 and 2009.
2,947 children and teens were killed by guns in 2008; another 2,793 were killed in 2009.
Two-thirds were victims of homicide (3,892), one-quarter were suicide (1,548), and five percent were accidental or unknown (300) gun deaths. Black children and teens were only
15 percent of the child population but were 45 percent of the total fatal gun deaths in 2008
and 2009.