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jmg257 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 05:30 PM
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7. How about the risks of using water, matches, and cars? We can certainly avoid all those deaths.
Edited on Tue May-05-09 05:33 PM by jmg257
And those objects cause FAR more accidental deaths then the 83* or so attributable annually to firearms.

Regrettable that such deaths are almost totally preventable, as they would not occur if people just avoid using those objects.


2006 kids ages 0-16 Unintentional injury deaths
WISQARS

MV Traffic: 2834
Drowning: 820
Fire: 411
Suffocation: 280
Poison: 200
...
Fall: 94
Firearms: 83


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