Did you know that there are more fatal accidents involving children and bicycles than there are involving children and guns?
It is documented in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) fatal injury database.
As you can see from the illustration, for the last 19 years, from 1999 to 2017, there were 2,467 children killed in fatal accidents involving bicycles, versus 1,994 children killed in fatal accidents involving a firearm.
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4 comments:
Falling coconuts kill 150 people per year worldwide while sharks kill only 10 people in an average year. You can look it up!
The key word is "accidents". Gun violence is no accident.
First, I support gun ownership and the second amendment.
Arguments like this just don't hold up. Nearly all kids have and ride bikes, accidents happen. Sheer numbers and percentages say this unfortunate thing will occur.
No child should be at the business end of a fire arm, especially in a place like a school where there is an assumption they will be safe.
Making comparisons like this devalues and equivocates the murder of a child at gun point, to the accidental death of a child on a bike.
It doesn't really help our cause.
Northwest Woodsman : Yeah but guns are scary to Marxist democrats. It is the scary and unknown impulses that guns have that make them dangerous. Why, I have heard of cases where a “fully semiautomatic” AR-15 jumped out of its rack and shot up a neighborhood.
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