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To: epicure who wrote (9522)	1/23/2006 7:23:33 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541844

Child mortality dropped by approximately half between 1980 and 2002 among children ages 1–4 (from 64 to 31 deaths per 100,000 children) and among children ages 5–14 (from 31 to 17 deaths per 100,000 children) How much of that is do to better medical care? How much of that is do to lower crime rates in 2002 than in 1980? I'm far from sure that this is mostly do to a more busybody government. Deaths from firearm injuries among adolescents declined between 1995 and 2002 Supports my point. There were more firearms in 2002 than in 1995 and the level of control in 2002 was probably less than 1995, at least it was not noticeably greater. For example, from 1995 to 2002, the firearm homicide rate declined from 101 to 48 deaths per 100,000 Black males and from 47 to 22 deaths per 100,000 Hispanic males. More likely to be due to demographic changes, changes in the operation of drug markets (for example there used to be more "drug wars" in DC but things have since settled down), and changes in police methods. Also concealed carry laws may have detered some of this crime. Increases in suicide and gun deaths have somewhat diluted the gains from safety- Your specific data seems to contradict this claim.