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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: peter michaelson who wrote (470866)	10/4/2003 10:14:25 AM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The 2.5M comes from a Univ of Florida study. The 10,000 which had suicides removed comes from Unified Crime Statistics, I believe FBI maintained. The 1500 number comes from the Centers for Disease control and probably includes suicides that were labeled accidents to spare some families extra grief. These aren't politically motivated numbers. Cars and incompetent doctors are a lot more dangerous than guns in the hand of a trained, non-felon individual. Doctors killed over 100,000 and cars kill nearly 50000 every year, yet the politicians aren't pushing for sweeping car and doctor regulations year in and year out. Take a look at the following numbers. Shouldn't Feinstein and Schumer be banning bicycles for childern or putting bicycle manufacturers out of business for selling a defective products that kills kids? CDC data for Causes and Numbers of Accidental Deaths of Children Under Age 10 (1997) 1 Motor vehicle 1,783 2 Traffic 1,626 3 Drowning 750 4 Suffocation 577 5 Residential fires 570 6 Struck by or on something 89 7 Falls 87 8 Cycling 78 9 Poisoning 58 10 Firearms 48