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Originally Posted by RedskinRat
I read one of the sources the data was taken from:
Firearm-Related Injuries Affecting the Pediatric Population
And here's the link from the AAP Conference with the title - ' United States Childhood Gun-Violence – Disturbing Trends'
After clicking through lots of links and related articles, it sounds to me like an attempt to fund a project that got de-funded a while back.
The study does cite its sources, and, despite better things to do this evening, I drilled down far enough to see how they'd skewed the data. You're welcome to do the same. |
You did not read your own link clearly. For example, you missed this important tidbit:
"For children 5 to 14 years of age, firearm suicide rates were 8 times higher, and death rates from unintentional firearm injuries were 10 times higher in the United States than other high-income countries. The difference in rates may be related to the ease of availability of guns in the United States compared with other high-income countries."
That's pretty damning stuff for the gun status quo.
The 15-19 age group was just one age group discussed in the link you posted, which was just one source of the report cited above. The report cited above stands.