ABC to air anti-gun propaganda Friday
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Seems like that's the plan.
The left has a new study to wave in everyone's faces.
The journal Pediatrics just published a look at gun injury among "children" up to age 19 and you will be deluged with the customary commentary, e.g., The New York Daily News today (January 28):
So the blame lies at the feet of the law-abiding gun owner and their evil overlord, the NRA . . .
Yawn . . .
When you drill down into the actual study (988KB pdf), one finds exactly what one finds whenever gun injury and death in the USA are examined:
In 2009, the 15 to 19 y.o. white male population was 3.4 times the 15 to 19 y.o. black male population (6,605,155 / 1,933,253, CDC #'s) but the gun injury rate for 15 to 19 y.o. black males was 13 times that for 15 to 19 y.o. whites?
If I had to choose something to blame that situation on and my choices were:
a), the cracka-ass-cracka NRA,
or
b), urban gangsta culture,
I know which one is politically correct, embraced by loopy liberals and wrong and which one is denounced by loopy liberals as racist and insensitive but is indisputably correct . . .
The journal Pediatrics just published a look at gun injury among "children" up to age 19 and you will be deluged with the customary commentary, e.g., The New York Daily News today (January 28):
The NRA’s young victims
Whether perpetrated by a mass-killing psychotic, armed robber or enraged spouse, criminal gun violence takes the lives of thousands of American adults every year. No surprise there.
Now, another scandal in this weapon-awash nation is in the spotlight: the frequency with which children are shot, often because they, a friend or a caregiver pulled a trigger accidentally.
A new study in the journal Pediatrics , counting emergency rooms visits in 2009 from young people who were shot, zeroes in on the damage.
That year, 173 children age 4 or younger were sent to an E.R. after being shot — 133 of them victims of unintentional gunplay. The numbers go up with age: more than 200 children age 5 to 9 — 152 of them shot unintentionally; 699 children age 10 to 14 — 377 of them shot unintentionally.
Bullets entered more than 6,200 adolescents aged 15-to-19, the single most victimized group. Two-thirds of those were assaults, and 1,459 were accidents.
All told, more than 7,000 American young people are victims of gun violence in a year.
So, let the National Rifle Association mouth the claptrap that the only thing that stops a “bad guy with a gun” is a “good guy with a gun.”
The accidental deaths and injuries are not about good guys and bad guys. Yet the NRA has fought in court even against laws requiring gun owners to install trigger locks on weapons not in use — the time youngsters are most likely to get their hands on a gun.
Add up all the accidental shootings of young people in 2009, and you get 2,121 — almost six a day. Many of those deaths and injuries are the price American families pay, year in and year out, for the NRA’s absolutism in both keeping guns readily available for sale and barring the imposition of the slightest obligation on owners.
Whether perpetrated by a mass-killing psychotic, armed robber or enraged spouse, criminal gun violence takes the lives of thousands of American adults every year. No surprise there.
Now, another scandal in this weapon-awash nation is in the spotlight: the frequency with which children are shot, often because they, a friend or a caregiver pulled a trigger accidentally.
A new study in the journal Pediatrics , counting emergency rooms visits in 2009 from young people who were shot, zeroes in on the damage.
That year, 173 children age 4 or younger were sent to an E.R. after being shot — 133 of them victims of unintentional gunplay. The numbers go up with age: more than 200 children age 5 to 9 — 152 of them shot unintentionally; 699 children age 10 to 14 — 377 of them shot unintentionally.
Bullets entered more than 6,200 adolescents aged 15-to-19, the single most victimized group. Two-thirds of those were assaults, and 1,459 were accidents.
All told, more than 7,000 American young people are victims of gun violence in a year.
So, let the National Rifle Association mouth the claptrap that the only thing that stops a “bad guy with a gun” is a “good guy with a gun.”
The accidental deaths and injuries are not about good guys and bad guys. Yet the NRA has fought in court even against laws requiring gun owners to install trigger locks on weapons not in use — the time youngsters are most likely to get their hands on a gun.
Add up all the accidental shootings of young people in 2009, and you get 2,121 — almost six a day. Many of those deaths and injuries are the price American families pay, year in and year out, for the NRA’s absolutism in both keeping guns readily available for sale and barring the imposition of the slightest obligation on owners.
So the blame lies at the feet of the law-abiding gun owner and their evil overlord, the NRA . . .
Yawn . . .
When you drill down into the actual study (988KB pdf), one finds exactly what one finds whenever gun injury and death in the USA are examined:
Significant racial and gender differences in hospitalization rates for firearm injuries were observed. Black children and adolescents had the highest rate of hospitalizations for firearm injuries at 25.13 per 100,000 compared with other races: 7.93, 6.56, and 2.58 for Hispanic, other, and whites, respectively.
When males were examined separately and rates stratified by race and age group, rates were highest in blacks, overall and in each age group. The overall rate for black males was 44.77 per 100,000, which was 10.5 times higher than the rate for white males, and the rate for black adolescents aged 15 to 19 years was markedly elevated at 148.71 per 100,000, which was 13.1 times higher than the rate for whites in the same age group . . .
When males were examined separately and rates stratified by race and age group, rates were highest in blacks, overall and in each age group. The overall rate for black males was 44.77 per 100,000, which was 10.5 times higher than the rate for white males, and the rate for black adolescents aged 15 to 19 years was markedly elevated at 148.71 per 100,000, which was 13.1 times higher than the rate for whites in the same age group . . .
In 2009, the 15 to 19 y.o. white male population was 3.4 times the 15 to 19 y.o. black male population (6,605,155 / 1,933,253, CDC #'s) but the gun injury rate for 15 to 19 y.o. black males was 13 times that for 15 to 19 y.o. whites?
If I had to choose something to blame that situation on and my choices were:
a), the cracka-ass-cracka NRA,
or
b), urban gangsta culture,
I know which one is politically correct, embraced by loopy liberals and wrong and which one is denounced by loopy liberals as racist and insensitive but is indisputably correct . . .
ah yes the ole "will someone please think of the children" trick.
the easiest excuse in the book to get people to give up their rights. time tested and approved.
the easiest excuse in the book to get people to give up their rights. time tested and approved.
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You should learn more about the Left. You sound extremely uneducated.
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Ah the abortion fallback. With so many Christians openly stating they could never vote Left because of Abortion, I wonder what would happen if we deemed Abortion illegal. Maybe lots of people would be forced to THINK instead of use abortion as their only means of voting. As if the Right isn't equally guilty of death in America via unnecessary war....
Diane Sawyer discusses her unsettling special on children and guns.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/inside-young-guns-diane-sawyer-special-22312421