Florida shooting
#91
Re: Florida shooting
These are not necessarily in schools, so I suppose they don't count. No big deal, people should really stop complaining.
"Thousands of children are shot each year in the United States, and many of them die of their injuries, according to a comprehensive new study of gun violence published in the journal Pediatrics.
The study, conducted by statisticians at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the University of Texas, found that roughly 7,100 children under the age of 18 were shot each year from 2012 to 2014. An average of 1,300 died of their injuries in a typical year.
That works out to 19 children shot every single day in the course of a year — or 3.5 children killed by guns every single day.
They're staggering numbers, as the authors point out. “Firearm-related deaths are the third leading cause of death overall among US children aged 1 to 17 years,” they write, “surpassing the number of deaths from pediatric congenital anomalies, heart disease, influenza and/or pneumonia, chronic lower respiratory disease, and cerebrovascular causes.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.e319bd592218
"Thousands of children are shot each year in the United States, and many of them die of their injuries, according to a comprehensive new study of gun violence published in the journal Pediatrics.
The study, conducted by statisticians at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the University of Texas, found that roughly 7,100 children under the age of 18 were shot each year from 2012 to 2014. An average of 1,300 died of their injuries in a typical year.
That works out to 19 children shot every single day in the course of a year — or 3.5 children killed by guns every single day.
They're staggering numbers, as the authors point out. “Firearm-related deaths are the third leading cause of death overall among US children aged 1 to 17 years,” they write, “surpassing the number of deaths from pediatric congenital anomalies, heart disease, influenza and/or pneumonia, chronic lower respiratory disease, and cerebrovascular causes.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.e319bd592218
#92
Re: Florida shooting
The horribly tragic part of that is the number of kids 4 or 5 or 6 years old who got their hands on a loaded gun left laying around by their idiot parent and either shot themselves or another child. Or like the child riding in the back seat of his grandmothers car, got her gun out of her handbag and shot her in the back.
While some in this country certainly care, not enough people care enough.
#93
Re: Florida shooting
These are not necessarily in schools, so I suppose they don't count. No big deal, people should really stop complaining.
"Thousands of children are shot each year in the United States, and many of them die of their injuries, according to a comprehensive new study of gun violence published in the journal Pediatrics.
The study, conducted by statisticians at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the University of Texas, found that roughly 7,100 children under the age of 18 were shot each year from 2012 to 2014. An average of 1,300 died of their injuries in a typical year.
That works out to 19 children shot every single day in the course of a year — or 3.5 children killed by guns every single day.
They're staggering numbers, as the authors point out. “Firearm-related deaths are the third leading cause of death overall among US children aged 1 to 17 years,” they write, “surpassing the number of deaths from pediatric congenital anomalies, heart disease, influenza and/or pneumonia, chronic lower respiratory disease, and cerebrovascular causes.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.e319bd592218
"Thousands of children are shot each year in the United States, and many of them die of their injuries, according to a comprehensive new study of gun violence published in the journal Pediatrics.
The study, conducted by statisticians at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the University of Texas, found that roughly 7,100 children under the age of 18 were shot each year from 2012 to 2014. An average of 1,300 died of their injuries in a typical year.
That works out to 19 children shot every single day in the course of a year — or 3.5 children killed by guns every single day.
They're staggering numbers, as the authors point out. “Firearm-related deaths are the third leading cause of death overall among US children aged 1 to 17 years,” they write, “surpassing the number of deaths from pediatric congenital anomalies, heart disease, influenza and/or pneumonia, chronic lower respiratory disease, and cerebrovascular causes.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.e319bd592218
Yeah, but everyone knows that immigrant deaths don't count. (see post #56 for clarity).
#96
Re: Florida shooting
This will be out of the news come Monday, and it'll just be a waiting game until the next and I think sadly that's just how it is.
I can't see what arming teachers will do. Procedures in place to flag up psychopaths trying to buy guns don't work. The only thing that'll work is gun control - and I say that as a gun owner... and it'll also never work, 2nd amendment and all that. So really the question is what does the government/US as a whole do about?
I can't see what arming teachers will do. Procedures in place to flag up psychopaths trying to buy guns don't work. The only thing that'll work is gun control - and I say that as a gun owner... and it'll also never work, 2nd amendment and all that. So really the question is what does the government/US as a whole do about?
#97
Re: Florida shooting
This will be out of the news come Monday, and it'll just be a waiting game until the next and I think sadly that's just how it is.
I can't see what arming teachers will do. Procedures in place to flag up psychopaths trying to buy guns don't work. The only thing that'll work is gun control - and I say that as a gun owner... and it'll also never work, 2nd amendment and all that. So really the question is what does the government/US as a whole do about?
I can't see what arming teachers will do. Procedures in place to flag up psychopaths trying to buy guns don't work. The only thing that'll work is gun control - and I say that as a gun owner... and it'll also never work, 2nd amendment and all that. So really the question is what does the government/US as a whole do about?
#100
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 14,577
Re: Florida shooting
Much like the nut-job Islamic extremists they despise. 17 kids being killed in a shooting is God's/Allah's will, everyone should just accept it.....
#102
Re: Florida shooting
The only thing we will put more energy into is ensuring that everone is still free to buy these weapons.
Last edited by Lion in Winter; Feb 16th 2018 at 11:00 am.
#103
Sad old Crinkly Member
Joined: Oct 2003
Location: Tallahassee, Florida
Posts: 807
Re: Florida shooting
We can change them. We did for slavery and alcohol, why not guns.
Last edited by excpomea; Feb 16th 2018 at 12:55 pm.