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19. The CDC does not need to "research" what is reported to them.
Fri Oct 14, 2016, 04:08 PM
Oct 2016

They are not county coroners. They are responsible for tabulating the statistics. Those stats are available on the internet.
http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate10_us.html

For 2014 firearm deaths:
# of fatalities for ages 17 and under due to all intents and manners- 1,331
# of Unintentional fatalities for ages 17 and under- 74
# of Violence related fatalities for ages 17 and under- 1,238
# of deaths due to Undetermined Intent for ages 17 and under- 19

Form the linked article: Using information collected by the Gun Violence Archive, a nonpartisan research group, news reports and public sources, the media outlets spent six months analyzing the circumstances of every death and injury from accidental shootings involving children ages 17 and younger from Jan. 1, 2014, to June 30 of this year - more than 1,000 incidents in all.


If the number of incidents mentioned in the article was say out of whack with CDC stats I found, then maybe there's an issue.

I'm not seeing a reason to doubt. I don't see that the NRA is involved in the collection or analysis but simply quoting what the CDC publish.

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