How is gun violence in the U.S. "irrelevant?"?
- Every day, more than 80 Americans die from gun violence. (Coalition to Stop Gun Violence)
-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. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
-American kids are 16 times more likely to be murdered with a gun, 11 times more likely to commit suicide with a gun, and nine times more likely to die from a firearm accident than children in 25 other industrialized countries combined. (Centers for Disease Control)
How is this irrelevant? Where I live (Philadelphia) the murder rate, most of it caused by gun violence, have resulted in the deaths of over 206 people this year alone. This need to stop before it is too late. It is not controling people's lives but it is stoping violence and death. So are you still going to say that gun violence is "irrelevant?"
2007-07-05
06:23:09
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Lindsey G
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