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Old 10-20-2006, 05:33 PM   #73
MaggieL
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Originally Posted by Hippikos
The rate of firearm deaths among kids under age 15 is almost 12 times higher in the United States than in 25 other industrialized countries combined.

American kids are nine times more likely to die from a firearm accident than children in 25 other industrialized countries combined.
How exactly are you adding rates to get these "combined" numbers?

Please source your statistics (and "The Brady Campaign" isn't a source). I'd like to see percapita numbers, not relative rates. (Especially if you think they can be validly "combined".)

For example, in 2001 there were 21 accidental fireams deaths for US children under 15, compared with 2,100 drownings.

Go read the Gun Facts book; all their stats are sourced. Free download from http://www.gunfacts.info
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