The national Brady Campaign spokeswoman confirmed the figure. “It is correct to say that 8 children and teens die from gun violence every day,” Fuson said in an email. “It is also correct to say that 9 children and teens are shot unintentionally.”
We checked the nonfatal number as well and found that 8.86 children are unintentionally shot each day and survive, according to the CDC’s nonfatal injuries database.
But those two numbers — eight gun-related deaths and nine injuries per day — do not show the whole picture.
PolitiFact Oregon obtained a breakdown by age from the CDC’s online database and found that about half of all youth gun deaths — 7,223 of 14,258 — are 18- and 19-year-olds. The same goes for unintentional injuries, roughly 46 percent of which — 7,479 of 16,172 — are 18- and 19-year-olds.
Remove those two years from the calculation, and there are an average of 4.76 unintentional injuries each day and 3.85 deaths.
That is significant given the use of the word “children” in the Brady Campaign’s display, along with a chalkboard and shoes suited to children younger than 12. In addition, people 18 and older are legally considered adults. They are allowed to buy guns and ammunition without parental consent, and are solely responsible for crimes they commit using those weapons.
We asked Fuson, the Brady Campaign spokeswoman, to find out why the campaign includes 18- and 19-year-olds in its calculation. In an email, she said the campaign used the CDC’s own metrics for measuring unintentional injuries. She pointed us to a report published by the center examining childhood injuries from 2000-06.
via Do an average of nine children a day die in the United States of gunshot wounds? | PolitiFact Oregon.
“why the campaign includes 18 and 19-year-old in its calculation. In an email, she said the campaign used the CDC’s own metrics for measuring unintentional injuries.”
And maybe because it sells better to give such huge numbers accompanied by images of small kids than images of Late Teen gang-bangers? It is the usual: If they ever tell the truth they know they will lose so lies must be told and repeated.
I found funny that PolitiFact Oregon was the organization doing the checking. I will speculate wildly that God believes in balancing stuff out and got tired of our old friend Jason Kilgore (A.K.A. Baldr Odinson) spreading B.S. spreading BS all over the Beaver State.
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