Me And A Gun

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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
American children are more at risk from firearms than the children of any other industrialized nation. In one year, firearms killed no children in Japan, 19 in Great Britain, 57 in Germany, 109 in France, 153 in Canada, and 5,285 in the United States

Now let's break this down:

That statistic came from a discredited report commissioned by Handgun Control Inc. No bias there right? The 3,012 figure was based on the FBI UCR however:

The initial figure includes "children" up to 25 years of age.

Of the 3,012 "children" killed in that study, 2,303 were convicted felons killing other convicted felons.

In addition, you state the latest figures are 3,012 children are killed every year, but one paragraph later the figure jumps by over 2,000. Which number is correct? I think the HCI website needs some proofreading.

Again I would refer you to your local police department and ask them to see the 2006 FBI Uniform Crime Report and Annexes. I can't quite remember which Annex deals with firearm deaths by age / type of weapon but I am sure you can find it by yourself.

Then again why confuse the issue with facts?