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LiveForFreedom May 22, 2013 at 09:37 pm
Everyday we read about some gun owner shooting his own kid. No...hardly....that is exaggeration.…Read More
Everyday we near about some car driver getting into an accident and killing his kid.
Come on. Accidents happen. There was a six year old boy from Salem CT who got killed by a wood chipper while his father was cutting down trees.
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Fred May 22, 2013 at 08:23 pm
@ Charles “everyday we read about some gun owner shooting his own kid, or another little kid…Read More finding a gun and killing her brother.” The reality is that gun accidents, including accidents involving children, have been declining drastically. Fatal gun accidents declined by almost sixty percent from 1975 to 1995, even though the number of guns per capita increased by almost forty percent. Fatal gun accidents involving children (aged 0-14) also fell significantly, from 495 in 1975, to under 250 in 1995. More children die from accidental drownings or burns than from gun accidents. (Gun supply statistics from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms,; gun accident rates from the National Safety Council).
@ Harold Hansen “Straw purchasers can go to state with lax gun laws like not having background checks at gun shows.” Not according to the data. A 1997 Justice Department survey of more than 18,000 state and federal convicts revealed that: 39.6% of criminals obtained a gun from a friend or family member, 39.2% of criminals obtained a gun on the street or from an illegal source, 0.7% of criminals purchased a gun at a gun show, 1% of criminals purchased a gun at a flea market, 3.8% of criminals purchased a gun from a pawn shop, 8.3% of criminals actually bought their guns from retail outlets, directly or through a straw purchaser. Under current federal law, every person who purchases a gun from a brick-and-mortar or online retailer, pawn shop owner or private dealer—essentially any licensed dealer -- must submit to a background examination via the National Instant Check System, whether the purchaser’s State has lax firearm laws or otherwise.
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