CDC: More Children Killed by Fire, Drowning Than by
Firearms
by AWR Hawkins 31 Jan 2014, 8:27
AM PDT
According to the 2010 Death and
Mortality numbers released by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more children under the age of
ten are unintentionally killed in fire or water-related incidents than are
killed in accidental gun deaths.
Gun scholar John Lott pulled
together various CDC tables showing that thirty-six children under the age of
ten were killed in firearm-related accidents in 2010.
The number of children under the
age of ten killed in "unintentional fire/burn deaths" was 262, and
the number killed in "unintentional drowning" incidents was 609.
This is viewed as a "death
rate per 100,000" and translates into "age-adjusted rates" of
.09 for unintentional gun-related deaths, .64 for unintentional fire/burn
deaths, and 1.4 for unintentional drowning deaths.
The number of children
unintentionally killed in fire-related deaths was over seven times higher than
the number of children killed in unintentional gun-related deaths, and the
number of children killed in unintentional drowning deaths was sixteen times
higher than the number of children killed in unintentional gun-related deaths.
CDC
Note: Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the CDC
Foundation.
Michael R.
Bloomberg is the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, a co-chair for Mayors
Against Illegal Guns, was a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, and a donor for the Robin Hood Foundation.
NRA-ILA (Mayors Against Illegal Guns, History)
George
Soros was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, a benefactor for the Human
Rights Watch, and the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, the Robin
Hood Foundation, the Human Rights
Watch, and the Millennium Promise.
Larry
Robbins is a director at the Robin
Hood Foundation, and was married to Amy
Robbins Towers.
Amy Robbins
Towers is a director at the Human
Rights Watch, a board member for the CDC
Foundation, was married to Larry
Robbins, and a director at the Millennium
Promise.
Jimmy
Carter was an honorary co-chairman for the Millennium Promise, and the president for the Jimmy Carter administration.
Jimmy Carter on Gun Control
President of the U.S., 1977-1981
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