At least 71 kids killed with guns in the US since Newtown

[Fred Zed]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics...ren-newtown-caroline-sparks-crickett-firearms
In the last five months there have been at least 71 of them. None older than 12, several as young as five or six months, all of their lives ended by a bullet.

There was four-year-old Trinity Ross in Kansas City, who lasted about a week on life support after a playmate came across her father's gun in the TV room. There was 10-year-old Alexandra Brown in Ohio, apparently murdered in the backseat of a car by her father just before he took his own life. There was three-year-old Jadarrius Speights, who got his little fingers on his uncle's loaded 9 mm in an apartment in Tampa, just Tuesday night. His death came one week after a five-year-old boy inside a rural Kentucky home pointed a small rifle at his two-year-old sister, Caroline Sparks, and pulled the trigger.
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Sparks' death drew extensive media coverage and stirred particularly strong emotions, in part because the weapon used was specifically made for and marketed to kids. As I reported last week, its manufacturer, Crickett Firearms, has seen its business boom in recent years. The intense response to the tragedy clearly was also a legacy of the Newtown massacre, whose 20 young victims shook the nation and set off an extraordinary debate about gun violence.

 

[HEYHEY]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics...ren-newtown-caroline-sparks-crickett-firearms
In the last five months there have been at least 71 of them. None older than 12, several as young as five or six months, all of their lives ended by a bullet.

There was four-year-old Trinity Ross in Kansas City, who lasted about a week on life support after a playmate came across her father's gun in the TV room. There was 10-year-old Alexandra Brown in Ohio, apparently murdered in the backseat of a car by her father just before he took his own life. There was three-year-old Jadarrius Speights, who got his little fingers on his uncle's loaded 9 mm in an apartment in Tampa, just Tuesday night. His death came one week after a five-year-old boy inside a rural Kentucky home pointed a small rifle at his two-year-old sister, Caroline Sparks, and pulled the trigger.
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Sparks' death drew extensive media coverage and stirred particularly strong emotions, in part because the weapon used was specifically made for and marketed to kids. As I reported last week, its manufacturer, Crickett Firearms, has seen its business boom in recent years. The intense response to the tragedy clearly was also a legacy of the Newtown massacre, whose 20 young victims shook the nation and set off an extraordinary debate about gun violence.

3,725,000 people, majority of them children, died since newtown from hunger and hunger related illnesses

 

[Aardvark154]

Every single one of them is a tragedy. However, Fred this is what fraction of a percent of all children under the age of 12 in the U.S.?

 

[blackrock13]

3,725,000 people, majority of them children, died since newtown from hunger and hunger related illnesses

In the US?

Let's at least try and work on stuff we can do something about?

 

[red]

Every single one of them is a tragedy. However, Fred this is what fraction of a percent of all children under the age of 12 in the U.S.?

so these children are mathematically insignificant to you?

 

[Ridgeman08]

3,725,000 people, majority of them children, died since newtown from hunger and hunger related illnesses

In North America or...

In places we can do NOTHING to prevent?

e.g. most of them die at the hands of their own corrupt governments. Even when aid is sent, it NEVER finds the hungry and needy.

 

[IM469]

3,725,000 people, majority of them children, died since newtown from hunger and hunger related illnesses

The next time your child is raped, shot or missing - I hope the cop reads the same statistic to you and hangs up.

 

[Aardvark154]

so these children are mathematically insignificant to you?

I presume you read what I posted?

 

[red]

I presume you read what I posted?

yes.

 

[HEYHEY]

In North America or...

In places we can do NOTHING to prevent?

e.g. most of them die at the hands of their own corrupt governments. Even when aid is sent, it NEVER finds the hungry and needy.

Ok i get your drift.

In that case lets look at this statistic : "In 2004, there were 3,308 unintentional drownings in the United States, an average of nine people per day.(CDC 2006)"

We can surely do something about 3,308 people drowning in the USA now, cant we? Why does anyone need a pool if 3,308 people die as a result?

"Each year, an estimated 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking in the USA"

Hmmm guess nothing can be done about this as well eh? What purpose do cigarettes serve again?

"In 2010, there were an estimated 5,419,000 crashes, killing 32,885 and injuring 2,239,000."



Do i need to go on? Look at how many people die from the god damn flu!!! (look down at signature duuuh)

If you guys wanna save the world why not go after the biggest killer by far, the tobacco companies?

BTW 424,000 people die in falls every year HAHAAH Time to ban walking i guess...

 

[anon1]

most of them die at the hands of their own corrupt governments.

Isn't that what Fred is saying?

 

[HEYHEY]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics...ren-newtown-caroline-sparks-crickett-firearms
In the last five months there have been at least 71 of them. None older than 12, several as young as five or six months, all of their lives ended by a bullet.

There was four-year-old Trinity Ross in Kansas City, who lasted about a week on life support after a playmate came across her father's gun in the TV room. There was 10-year-old Alexandra Brown in Ohio, apparently murdered in the backseat of a car by her father just before he took his own life. There was three-year-old Jadarrius Speights, who got his little fingers on his uncle's loaded 9 mm in an apartment in Tampa, just Tuesday night. His death came one week after a five-year-old boy inside a rural Kentucky home pointed a small rifle at his two-year-old sister, Caroline Sparks, and pulled the trigger.
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Sparks' death drew extensive media coverage and stirred particularly strong emotions, in part because the weapon used was specifically made for and marketed to kids. As I reported last week, its manufacturer, Crickett Firearms, has seen its business boom in recent years. The intense response to the tragedy clearly was also a legacy of the Newtown massacre, whose 20 young victims shook the nation and set off an extraordinary debate about gun violence.

BTW 40 of them were accidental and 31 were homicides

 

[HEYHEY]

The next time your child is raped, shot or missing - I hope the cop reads the same statistic to you and hangs up.

Im just putting things into perspective here. Average people are so easily manipulated by the media its not even funny.

 

[HEYHEY]

 

[afterhours]

"Each year, an estimated 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking in the USA"

Hmmm guess nothing can be done about this as well eh? What purpose do cigarettes serve again?...

cigarettes must keep a ton of people employed

 

[HEYHEY]

cigarettes must keep a ton of people employed

doesn't the firearm and ammunition industry also employ a lot of people?

pretty weak argument

 

[afterhours]

doesn't the firearm and ammunition industry also employ a lot of people?

and that is exactly why these kids will continue dying

 

[anon1]

What purpose do cigarettes serve again?.

 

[HEYHEY]

and that is exactly why these kids will continue dying

no they will continue to die because of pieces of shit scum who murder kids, and pathetic parents who leave loaded guns within reach of their children.

guns are no different than swimming pools, in the hands of 99.9% there is no problem and they are used for the right cause, its the other .01% that can't be bothered to watch their kids and tragedy strikes

 

[BadgerJohn]

Ok i get your drift.

In that case lets look at this statistic : "In 2004, there were 3,308 unintentional drownings in the United States, an average of nine people per day.(CDC 2006)"

We can surely do something about 3,308 people drowning in the USA now, cant we? Why does anyone need a pool if 3,308 people die as a result?

"Each year, an estimated 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking in the USA"

Hmmm guess nothing can be done about this as well eh? What purpose do cigarettes serve again?

"In 2010, there were an estimated 5,419,000 crashes, killing 32,885 and injuring 2,239,000."



Do i need to go on? Look at how many people die from the god damn flu!!! (look down at signature duuuh)

If you guys wanna save the world why not go after the biggest killer by far, the tobacco companies?

BTW 424,000 people die in falls every year HAHAAH Time to ban walking i guess...

Death by a bacteria or virus seldom occurs in a healthy population. Many people who die from influenza have other severe health problems. There will be a few however where the strain of flu virus was so strong it overwhelmed the bodies ability to combat it in healthy people. When you have a country where 18 million people can't get even basic health coverage. There is your problem.

3,000 plus people die from unintentional drowning. Many of those people are in lakes, rivers oceans bodies of water. Some are in bathtubs, hottubs not just swimming pools. Many times people were inibriated before they went into the pool, lake etc. Some tragic accidents have occured where children unattended have drowned because they've fallen into a water source.
Important thing to remember in a lot of areas of the US swimming is considered just a sport and people don't take it seriously enough that being trained in swimming could save your life.