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  • Children and Guns

    Here are some statistics about children and guns

    • In a typical week in the US 25 children die from gunshot wounds
    • Between 2012 and 2014 1297 children under 18 died each year as a result of firearm injuries
    • In addition there were 5790 non-fatal injuries from gunshots
    • African American children are 10 times more likely to be killed by homicides than white children: 3.5 per 100,000
    • Suicide among white children is 4 times as high as it is for African American children
    • The rate of unintentional firearm deaths is twice as high for African American children than it is for white children
    • The District of Columbia and Louisiana had the highest firearm death, respectively 4.2 and 4.5 per 100,000
    • Child suicide by gun were highest in Montana, Idaho, Oklahoma, and Alaska
    • Most children who died of unintentional gun injury were shot by another child about the same age
    • Child gun homicide deaths have declined, but suicide have increased by 36% from 2007 to 2014
    • Gun suicide rates for that period increased 60%

  • 1400 Mayors and Climate Change

    1400 US mayors have passed an agreement to have their cities rely totally on renewable energies by 2035. While the pledge came as part of the United States Conference of Mayors meeting recently, it was not unanimous. Some mayors who do not believe in the issue of climate change abstained. Critics also say that this resolution doesn’t solve the climate change problem. That may be but when 1400 mayors from red states as well as blue states agree on something like that, it can have positive effects for the environment and that is important. A group within the US Conference, Mayors for (more…)

  • What We Can Do For Climate Change

    Climate change is better addressed as a matter of national and international policy. Yet without it we are not helpless. They are good examples of things we can do and come from an article in the NYT, which I hope you will read. They’re things we already know, based on our carbon footprint; still I found being reminded and having them in a list something which makes individual efforts matter more. If we all do this, or enough of us do enough of them, we can together make a difference regardless of whether or not our (more…)

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