Friday, January 31, 2014

CDC: More Children Killed by Fire, Drowning Than by Firearms



CDC: More Children Killed by Fire, Drowning Than by Firearms
by AWR Hawkins 31 Jan 2014, 8:27 AM PDT
According to the 2010 Death and Mortality numbers released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more children under the age of ten are unintentionally killed in fire or water-related incidents than are killed in accidental gun deaths.

Gun scholar John Lott pulled together various CDC tables showing that thirty-six children under the age of ten were killed in firearm-related accidents in 2010.

The number of children under the age of ten killed in "unintentional fire/burn deaths" was 262, and the number killed in "unintentional drowning" incidents was 609.

This is viewed as a "death rate per 100,000" and translates into "age-adjusted rates" of .09 for unintentional gun-related deaths, .64 for unintentional fire/burn deaths, and 1.4 for unintentional drowning deaths.

The number of children unintentionally killed in fire-related deaths was over seven times higher than the number of children killed in unintentional gun-related deaths, and the number of children killed in unintentional drowning deaths was sixteen times higher than the number of children killed in unintentional gun-related deaths.

CDC
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Note: Bloomberg Family Foundation was a funder for the CDC Foundation.
Michael R. Bloomberg is the founder of the Bloomberg Family Foundation, a co-chair for Mayors Against Illegal Guns, was a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, and a donor for the Robin Hood Foundation.
NRA-ILA (Mayors Against Illegal Guns, History)
George Soros was a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, a benefactor for the Human Rights Watch, and the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, the Robin Hood Foundation, the Human Rights Watch, and the Millennium Promise.
Larry Robbins is a director at the Robin Hood Foundation, and was married to Amy Robbins Towers.
Amy Robbins Towers is a director at the Human Rights Watch, a board member for the CDC Foundation, was married to Larry Robbins, and a director at the Millennium Promise.
Jimmy Carter was an honorary co-chairman for the Millennium Promise, and the president for the Jimmy Carter administration.
Jimmy Carter on Gun Control
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