Is it just me or do you also find it alarming that the yanks need an organisation like the Centre for Disease Control to conduct a study into child gun related deaths to conclude that children and firearms in the same household are a bad mix.
The study noted:
The number of children hospitalized for gunshot wounds increased from 4,270 in 1997 to 7,730 in 2009. In-hospital deaths among pediatric gunshot patients increased from 317 to 503 over the same period.
I also read this brilliant piece of insight:
Given the trends in gun ownership and childhood deaths attributable to gunshot wounds, Madenci and Christopher B. Weldon, MD, PhD, of Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard, hypothesized that household gun ownership would correlate with childhood gunshot wounds.
These are the statistics:
Over the course of the study period, 31,156 children were hospitalized for gunshot wounds and 2,159 children died in hospital of gunshot wounds.
They spent $100,00 studying the percentage rate of injuries from Any Gun versus Loaded Guns and Loaded Guns in Unlocked Storage.
The $100,000 was part of the $6 BILLION budget spent on Gun Related Issues.
SIX BILLION DOLLARS !
It looks to me that the children are getting shot. . . while the consultants, politicians and thumb twiddlers divide the spoils.
Of course guns and children don’t mix. Only a greedy consulting organisation would put their hand out to contemplate the need for research.
Source: http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/AAP/42672
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