Beginning next year in California, gun shops will be required to keep logs of ammunition sales. Gun rights groups have long fought laws on ammunition saying it is a way around the second amendment. But as Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan reminded some 25 years ago, “guns don’t kill people, bullets do.” California already has more anti-gun laws than most states and now it is going after ammunition. For people like me who do believe guns need to be restricted in order to save lives and life altering injuries, such laws are welcomed. But what is even more welcome is the Continue reading “Guns, Ammo and 3D”
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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%