That was a great site and utterly proved my point. People misuse the statistics to serve a purpose (nothing new there!). the term 'child' is used subjectively and often dishonestly. Bottom line is tho that X number of people are killed by firearms and if you dismiss the disingenuous and emotive term 'child' and start focusing on 'people' the facts look stark and unacceptable.
Except of course to the NRA and people who staunchly believe that guns don't kill. -----Original Message----- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Pete Theisen Sent: Wednesday, 28 January 2009 3:56 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [OT] Stupid law of the year goes to congressman Peter King (R) New York Geoff Flight wrote: > Link doesn't work http://tinyurl.com/d6gfms but at risk of being repetitive, using the NRA sit hardly > gives the figures independent support. > > -----Original Message----- > From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf > Of Pete Theisen > Sent: Wednesday, 28 January 2009 3:37 PM > To: ProFox Email List > Subject: Re: [OT] Stupid law of the year goes to congressman Peter King (R) > New York > > Geoff Flight wrote: >> These table for all of USA tells me there were 30,364 firearm deaths, > 32,637 >> suicides PLUS 18,124 homicides. It doesn't seem to give a breakdown of gun >> related deaths into accident homicide and suicide. > > Hi Geoff! > > How about this? > > http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?id=21&issue=009 > >>>> When pete quoted the NRA as the 'gold-standard' in >>>> statistics regarding gun deaths you know that his credibility >>> Hi Geoff! >>> >>> NRA IS the gold standard, if you don't recognize that then you have the >>> problem, not anyone else. >> Here you go! More data than you want. >> >> http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?ID=127 >> > > -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/016901c9810c$0d1b3f90$2751be...@com.au ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.