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Yale Study On Firearms-Related Injuries And "Children"
« on: January 27, 2014, 11:07:56 AM »
Responding to this article:

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/01/27/20-children-hospitalized-for-gun-injuries-every-day-in-us/

This article omits a few tidbits that I heard on NPR this morning.  One, the study included victims up to the age of 19, and two, 71% of the injuries were from assaults.  While safety and proper storage are certainly important, one could easily whittle down the "20 children a day" figure to something less headline-ish.

For example, if you only include accidental fatalities, that number falls to 2.8.  I would also be interested to know how many of those number were in the 17-19 age group.
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