Monday, December 17, 2012

FBI: firearms NOT primary reason for child deaths

  As Obama and Leftists move forward to ban weapons from responsible gun owners, we learn that the clear approach to do this will be to save the children, a rationale Leftists use for just about every nanny state new regulation they can think of.
  From the FBI's website, we can find the number of children between the ages of 0-5 who have been murdered with firearms.
  A clear reading reveals that children's deaths are not primarily by firearm, but rather from personal attack or "unknown."
  To save the children, we probably should ban all knives, blunt objects, personal items that could be used to hit like, presumably, hands, since hands are a weapon used to beat a child.
  Probably the best way to save the children is to not have any.
  But the abortion friendly crowd is already working on that angle.
  Huh.
  Funny we've yet to hear the save the children rationale used to prevent abortion.
  Here's the chart from the FBI website:
FBI's Supplementary Homicide Reports: 1980-2010 Table: Year of incident by Weapon used for United States Selecting: Age of victim = 0 to 5
                     Object
Count Firearm  Knife BluntPersonal Other Total 
1980   63      38      40   272     200   614 
1981   49      34      56   264     192   595 
1982   79      38      56   307     190   670 
1983   47      41      41   300     200   629 
1984   68      40      43   288     154   593 
1985   65      56      35   266     175   597 
1986   64      39      48   352     222   725 
1987   54      34      44   289     224   643 
1988   77      30      46   334     217   704 
1989   84      41      37   313     236   711 
1990   86      25      40   360     205   716 
1991   82      27      46   390     266   810 
1992   83      28      62   355     204   731 
1993   99      24      61   394     236   815 
1994   74      29      37   417     245   802 
1995   90      21      38   376     235   760 
1996   75      27      44   428     239   813 
1997   67      18      39   358     207   689 
1998   67      22      51   337     227   704 
1999   66      23      52   298     211   650 
2000   55      24      59   315     172   624 
2001   71      19      39   341     212   681 
2002   69      16      35   310     189   620 
2003   56      22      43   324     201   645 
2004   50      23      51   291     194   609 
2005   48      25      48   294     191   606 
2006   54      21      50   295     205   625 
2007   56      18      48   317     202   642 
2008   60      23      60   310     225   677 
2009   68      15      66   278     161   588 
2010   58      29      55   275     193   611 
Total 2084     868   1473 10045    6428  20898
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 20, 2012 at 12:52 PM

    As a Tea Party member from the very beginning of the movement, I believe we conservatives brought this upon ourselves.

    As a former member of the Military, I believe that people should have to go through extensive training to be gun owners (though I do think that there should be many ways for citizens to get this training). What this looks like to me is that our resistance to background checks, and preserving loopholes to it so large you could drive a Mac truck through, are finally coming back to bite our rights in the butt.

    And trying to keep all firearms treated 'equally' was also a huge mistake. Handguns are one thing, but if you want to own a military weapon privately, you should have to pass a military-style tactical training equivalent to do so.

    I could go on (I also think magazines for civilian use have no reason to be more than a dozen rounds each), but I think most of you get the point. The almost inevitable, unreasonable, impending "assault" weapon ban was brought on entirely by our own stupidity.

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  2. Tea Party at PerrysburgDecember 20, 2012 at 2:33 PM

    I don't disagree with some of your thoughts. I'm not sure, to be serious, that Obama's really serious about much of this, considering he's put the Vice Doofus in charge who in 2008 declared Obama would not take his Baretta.

    What disgusts me about all this, considering that overall violent crime has gone down as more law abiding people have obtained weapons, is that it is an emotional appeal that is completely irrelevant to the real problems.

    Thanks for your input.

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