07-02-2015, 10:03 AM
It's fantastical to insist that back when you were a kid guns were everywhere and no kids unintentionally shot themselves or others, F.U.
It's like insisting that children were hardly ever abducted off the streets back then and it has become an epidemic when, in fact, statistics prove that more children were abducted back in the day.
Or, like insisting that incest is new because children back then didn't talk about it and the adults involved, of course, lied about what caused the child's resulting injury.
Or, like insisting that prison breaks used to be rare and have become a much bigger problem today, when the data proves that, in fact, they occur way less often than they did in the previous few decades.
It's a fact, not an opinion, that there is significantly more national news coverage of local stories by significantly more media sources which are accessible to significantly more people than when you were a kid. Just because you didn't hear about it then and it doesn't fit your ideal/agenda, doesn't mean it didn't happen. Likewise, just because you hear about something much more frequently these days doesn't mean it's happening much more frequently.
As I said, I don't know if unintentional child shootings are happening more or less frequently now than when you were a kid. But, I know they've been happening as long as millions of children have had intentional and unintentional access to guns.
However, it's an acknowledged problem that meaningful statistics for firearm related injuries and deaths are difficult to come by due to variances in reporting and other factors; hopefully it's a problem that is being addressed. So, I can't give you statistics.
I don't want to change your beliefs anyway F.U., you seem very emotionally invested in clinging desperately to them, though they conflict with common sense and all statistical probability.
It's like insisting that children were hardly ever abducted off the streets back then and it has become an epidemic when, in fact, statistics prove that more children were abducted back in the day.
Or, like insisting that incest is new because children back then didn't talk about it and the adults involved, of course, lied about what caused the child's resulting injury.
Or, like insisting that prison breaks used to be rare and have become a much bigger problem today, when the data proves that, in fact, they occur way less often than they did in the previous few decades.
It's a fact, not an opinion, that there is significantly more national news coverage of local stories by significantly more media sources which are accessible to significantly more people than when you were a kid. Just because you didn't hear about it then and it doesn't fit your ideal/agenda, doesn't mean it didn't happen. Likewise, just because you hear about something much more frequently these days doesn't mean it's happening much more frequently.
As I said, I don't know if unintentional child shootings are happening more or less frequently now than when you were a kid. But, I know they've been happening as long as millions of children have had intentional and unintentional access to guns.
However, it's an acknowledged problem that meaningful statistics for firearm related injuries and deaths are difficult to come by due to variances in reporting and other factors; hopefully it's a problem that is being addressed. So, I can't give you statistics.
I don't want to change your beliefs anyway F.U., you seem very emotionally invested in clinging desperately to them, though they conflict with common sense and all statistical probability.