“Twenty young people a day hospitalized for gun injuries” screams the USA Today headline, right under it we see: ”
“Six percent of 7,391 hospitalizations for firearm-related injuries to children and teens in 2009 proved fatal. Most of the hospitalizations resulted from assaults; the fewest from suicide attempts.”
Yet when you read the article you find this little tidbit.
Researchers analyzed a nationally representative sample of discharge data collected on children and adolescents (up to age 20) in 2009. The data, released in 2011, are the most recent available, Sege says.
Up to age 20? Are you freaking kidding me? At 20 you’re not even a teen, at 18 you’re no longer a child. Do an experiment, ask a 13-17 year old if he considers himself a child, guess what? They don’t. At that age some teenagers can be charged as adults if they commit certain crimes.
The study detailed a significant racial gap: Black children and adolescents comprised 47% of all hospitalizations, 54% of hospitalizations resulting from assaults, 36% from unintentional injuries and 54% from undetermined causes.
Oh how terrible, but then again, that’s part of the gang lifestyle Hip Hop loves to promote. The Bloods and the Cribs like them young, and the kids aren’t learning gun safety from the NRA, or going to the gun range. The streets are their gun range! This is why they hold their guns sideways which is a no-no among real gun owners as opposed to worthless punks.
The findings emphasize “the need for funding for public health research to find the best way to reduce children’s access to firearms,” he says.
Just like global warming, hungry liberals need Uncle Sugar to pay them for their “research.”
In the absence of such research, Sege says, the best advice is to follow the American Academy of Pediatrics’ recommendation that “the safest home for children and teens is one without guns,” and if there are guns in the home, they should be “stored unloaded and locked, with the ammunition locked away in a separate place.”
Of course, a bunch of lousy doctors that don’t know squat about self-defense has the gall to tell parents that their children should die during a home invasion because Daddy kept his guns away from them. Besides, good luck getting bangers to keep their guns away from their young recruits.
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I can paraphrase this pretty easily…”Gangbangers in Utopia kill each other with illegal guns.” Do their twisted numbers even matter?
Shhh, don’t tell the gang bangers how to hold their guns, they might start hitting more often. That whole gravity thing and the gun being up and down, sheesh, get picky eh?
But maybe it will save lives as they’ll shoot better and won’t need to spray fire all over the place anymore.