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Originally posted by Rikki
And I have watched a documentary on CNN about the gun violence, this is where I got my information RMBolton.....
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Just letting you know that you misheard and are gravely misinformed. The average over the past 5-10 years is around 75 U.S. children (19 years and under) are shot with a gun each day, 15 of which die. A far cry from thousands a day...
Here's another one:
In a single year, 3,012 children and teens were killed by gunfire in the United States, according to the latest national data released in 2002. That is one child every three hours; eight children every day; and more than 50 children every week. And every year, at least 4 to 5 times as many kids and teens suffer from non-fatal firearm injuries.
-National Center for Health Statistics
These numbers are still incredibly high; anything above zero is high in my opinion, but thousands a day???
And, yes, quite the impressive display of marksmanship.
Ryan
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