Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:55:04 -0700
From: Tavares@ALUM.MIT.EDU ("C. D. Tavares")
Subject: Re: I need info
To: AZRKBA@asu.edu
At 6:13 PM -0700 3/11/01, you wrote:
> I am putting forth a gun-rights/gun-safety information packet.
>
> I need lots of correctly cited (publication, date, page number, etc)
> tidbits.
>
> The could be quotes from folks on either side of the debate, or
> criminology.
"Using a common-sense definition of "children" -- the age range commonly
treated by pediatricians, or birth to 14 -- the National Safety Council and
the Centers for Disease Control's data agree that there are approximately
80 deaths of children annually from handgun accidents. These numbers
support at most one and one-half accidental deaths per week in a country of
over 250 million -- nowhere near ten a day.
"Now, no one would argue that each of these deaths is any less a tragedy.
And no one will argue that responsible storage of firearms isn't a moral
duty...
"But let's put the risk in perspective: annually, according to trivia
columnist L. M. Boyd, over 100 people in the US choke themselves to death
on ball-point pens.
"More tellingly, every week 27 children in the under-15 age group are
killed using bicycles -- a commodity considered such a rite of childhood
that we actively provide them to our kids and encourage their (often
unsupervised) use."
C. D. Tavares, "Gun Facts vs. Anti-gun Emotions," The Middlesex News, 10/21/97.
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In our inner cities, where firearms are outlawed, only outlaws are armed. When our "philosopher kings" sit back and do nothing, this is the tyranny and terror of "gun control."
--CHARLTON HESTON