" 0.1% of all deaths for children between the ages 0-14 are from firearms"
Bass-ackwards.
Given X total number of violent deaths in children, only Y% is gun-related. The the stats are presented like this in order to give the illusion that the number is insignificant. When you tack on some actual numbers, such as for the year 2002:
- 3,012 children and teens were killed by gunfire
- 1,776 were murdered by gunfire
- 1,007 committed suicide with a firearm
- 193 died from an accidental shooting
- 1,762 were White
- 1,149 were Black
- 568 were Latino
- 433 were under age 15
- 129 were under age 10
- 59 were under age 5
I dare you to use the word "insignificant".
This is my personal fav.
"18-20 year olds commit over 23% of all gun murders. None of these criminals are allowed to purchase a handgun due to their age under current law"
Huh, imagine that. Guess it must be REAL easy to get your hands on a gun then, even if you aren't legally allowed to buy one.
Then follows a whole list (you will note they use *actual* numbers this time) of how many crimes are prevented by owning a gun. Interesting how they are able to absoultely prove an in-action. Here's one from me: I *always* carry my lucky rabbits foot, and I have never gotten hit by lightning, ergo my lucky rabbits foot has been succesful in preventing me from getting zapped.
"More to the point, crime is significantly higher in states without right -to -carry laws."
Not at all taking into accout population density, which is mainly concentrated on the east coast and in large cities, which also tend to have stricter gun laws. Um, can you say per capita, people?
"In Japan, the murder rate is about 1 per 100,000. In the U.S., there are about 3.2 murders per 100,000 each year by weapons other than firearms.
Therefore, if all of the firearms in the U.S. could magically be eliminated, we would still have three times the murder rate of Japan."
Umm, yeah, there's a positive....