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“A year after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Mother Jones has analyzed the subsequent deaths of 194 children ages 12 and under who were reported in news accounts to have died in gun accidents, homicides, and suicides. They are spread across 43 states, from inner cities to tiny rural towns. Following Sandy Hook, the National Rifle Association and its allies argued that arming more adults is the solution to protecting children, be it from deranged mass shooters or from home invaders. But the data we collected stands as a stark rejoinder to that view…”.* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here from Mark Follman / Mother Jones: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/children-killed-guns-newtown-anniversary
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So the average firearm related deaths among those under the age of 13 is ~200/yr? And that’s been the average for about a decade? You’d think there’d be a correlation between the increase in firearm proliferation and child firearm deaths.
Also, according to the CDC:
Every day, about ten people die from unintentional drowning. Of these, two are children aged 14 or younger. Drowning ranks fifth among the leading causes of unintentional injury death in the United States.
Hey Cenk, citing a country with a smaller population than California as having 4x fewer firearm deaths is kinda a bogus stat. If you mean 4x lower rate of firearm deaths, then that makes sense. The US has ~10x the population of Canada.