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To: nihil who wrote (15764)	3/19/2000 2:46:00 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Nihil, expanding a little on the "13 a day" claim. guntruths.com That claim is an outright fraud created by Handgun Control, Inc.ÿ According to HCI's own documents, the "13 kids a day" figure includes people "ages 19 and under."ÿ This means adults ages 18 and 19 are misleadingly counted as "kids." And, unfortunately, adults in the 18-19 year age range are unusually prone to violent behavior which significantly skews the numbers. In reality, among persons aged 0-17 ( the maximum age most would consider to be "children"), there were 2,284 firearms deaths (from all causes) in 1997. That works out to about 6 deaths per day.ÿ While that is still a very sobering number, it is far lower than the "13 kids per day "claimed by Pres. Clinton. What's more, if "children" are more realistically considered to be 15 and younger, there were 972 deaths (including suicide, murder and accidents), which is 2.66 per day.ÿ For that same age group, there were 172 accidental deaths, which is less than .5 per day. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, gun-related death among children 5 and young is extremely rare.ÿ Of the 32,436 firearms-related deaths in America in 1997 (a majority of which were suicides), there were 9 victims under one year of age, 75 victims between one and four years of age, and 546 victims between five and fourteen years of age. These figures correspond to 0.03%, 0.23%, and 1.6%, respectively. What these facts show is that as tragic as the death of any child is, the actual rate of firearms-related death among children is very low, and well below the 13 per day claimed by Pres. Clinton and Handgun Control, Inc.