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- I looked at a number of different sources and they all had similar numbers so I ask if anyone has different numbers, please post them.
www.washingtonpost.com...
nces.ed.gov...
bismarcktribune.com... 6
nymag.com...
en.wikipedia.org...
1300 children under the age of 18 are murdered by a gun in the United States every year.
en.wikipedia.org...
Last year 1824 college students killed by alcohol overdose.
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: DigginFoTroof
I started a thread similar to this last month. The bottom line is that school shootings are relatively small compared to the number of children who are killed by guns every year all over the United States.
1300 children under the age of 18 are murdered by a gun in the United States every year.
originally posted by: drock905
Here’s a breakdown of gun deaths in the USA
33,599 total deaths
21,508 are suicides
11,726 are homicides (roughly 80% are gang related according to the CDC)
546 accidents
268 undetermined
There are roughly 2,200 murders by gun per year in a country of 330 million +
Since 1996 there has been 8 mass shootings at schools aged k-12.
In the last 25 years the average number of children killed at school is 10 per year.
The top 10 cities with gun deaths per capita are
10. Milwaukee WI - 145
9. Salinas Ca - 40
8. Hartford Ct - 32
7. Baton Rouge La - 60
6. Jackson Ms - 53
5. Birmingham Al - 79
4. New Orleans La - 164
3. Detroit MI - 295
2. Baltimore Md - 344
1. ST Louis Mo - 188
originally posted by: DigginFoTroof
I have to ask this because I'm getting serious dissonance between the media and protesters and the numbers I've researched - but are the numbers I posted for the school shootings what others have heard? I always hear things like "a school shooting every other day" or "18 already this year" but it is always surrounded by nebulous terms, facts and statistics.
originally posted by: network dude
originally posted by: drock905
Here’s a breakdown of gun deaths in the USA
33,599 total deaths
21,508 are suicides
11,726 are homicides (roughly 80% are gang related according to the CDC)
546 accidents
268 undetermined
There are roughly 2,200 murders by gun per year in a country of 330 million +
Since 1996 there has been 8 mass shootings at schools aged k-12.
In the last 25 years the average number of children killed at school is 10 per year.
The top 10 cities with gun deaths per capita are
10. Milwaukee WI - 145
9. Salinas Ca - 40
8. Hartford Ct - 32
7. Baton Rouge La - 60
6. Jackson Ms - 53
5. Birmingham Al - 79
4. New Orleans La - 164
3. Detroit MI - 295
2. Baltimore Md - 344
1. ST Louis Mo - 188
if you cite your source, it would help your post bigley.
so let’s start banning things based on the amount of people killed by them. Guns would be near the bottom of that list.
originally posted by: Byrd
originally posted by: DigginFoTroof
I have to ask this because I'm getting serious dissonance between the media and protesters and the numbers I've researched - but are the numbers I posted for the school shootings what others have heard? I always hear things like "a school shooting every other day" or "18 already this year" but it is always surrounded by nebulous terms, facts and statistics.
They're not talking about "killed" or "mass shootings." They're talking about injury AND death. Most of the time these don't make national news... you have to look for local news.
Frankly, even one child shot by somebody (even if in an after school fight on school grounds between students over someone's boyfriend) is one child too many.
originally posted by: Byrd
originally posted by: DigginFoTroof
I have to ask this because I'm getting serious dissonance between the media and protesters and the numbers I've researched - but are the numbers I posted for the school shootings what others have heard? I always hear things like "a school shooting every other day" or "18 already this year" but it is always surrounded by nebulous terms, facts and statistics.
They're not talking about "killed" or "mass shootings." They're talking about injury AND death. Most of the time these don't make national news... you have to look for local news.
Frankly, even one child shot by somebody (even if in an after school fight on school grounds between students over someone's boyfriend) is one child too many.