Tucker Carlson: More Kids Die 'In Their Bathtubs' Than From Gun Accidents [View all]

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By CATHERINE THOMPSON Published AUGUST 11, 2014, 7:33 AM EDT

Fox News' Tucker Carlson on Saturday sharply criticized the network's report on securing firearms away from children, arguing that more kids die "drowning in their bathtubs" than from gun accidents.

Carlson was reacting to a "Fox & Friends Weekend" segment about a bill in New York state that would require firearms be safely stored with a locking device, which would prevent children from using them.

"The point of that package was guns are scary, gun owners are a threat to you and your children," he said. "The truth is, well, obviously a child's death is the worst tragedy imaginable. Far more children died last year drowning in their bathtubs than were killed accidentally by guns."

"So, I would like to see a package on, do you have a bathtub at home? Because I need to know that before I send my child over to your house," he added. "A little perspective might be helpful."

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Children Do Drown in Bathtubs – And You Can Prevent It
By CPSC Blogger on September 30, 2010

Did you know that after pools, more children younger than 5 years old drown in bathtubs than in any other product in and around your home? Most bathtub drowning and near-drowning incidents are to children under the age of 2.

From 2004-2006, nearly 100 children younger than 5 years of age drowned each year in bathtubs, baby bath seats or bathinettes, buckets and pails and in landscaping or yard products. Sixty-three percent of those drowning were in bathtubs; 12 percent were in baby bath seats or bathinettes.

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http://www.cpsc.gov/onsafety/2010/09/children-do-drown-in-bathtubs-%E2%80%93-and-you-can-prevent-it/

Epidemic: Guns kill twice as many kids as cancer does
Dustin Racioppi, The Asbury Park (N.J.) Press 7:28 a.m. EDT April 11, 2013

Children's group says gun deaths among youth also outnumber soldiers injured in Afghanistan.

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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.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/11/guns-child-deaths-more-than-cancer/2073259/