Here's some other interesting facts I got from someone's blog. A female posting about some stats she found interesting from her point of view. Of course Tracy never replied to me about this:


The number of children under the age of 17 shot by guns in America every year is greater than the gun-related deaths of children in all the industrialized nations of the world COMBINED.

Here is the population of Japan: 127,463,611.

Here is the number of children killed by guns in Japan every year: 0.

A 2001 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study found that in homicides among intimate partners, women are murdered more with guns than with all other means COMBINED.

In 2004, guns were most commonly used by males to murder their female partners.

A 2003 study found women living with a gun in the home were almost three times more likely to be murdered than women with no gun in the home.



>>>http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3083618&page=1
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>>People can talk about this issue from any angle and offer up "what if?" scenarios. The FACT remains that we have a gun fatality rate way higher than other developed countries. Here's an URL for the Earl Girl ---
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>>http://www.guncite.com/cnngunde.html
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>>It was interesting googling to find a site with direct statistics. Most of the hits I got were pro-gun attempts to spin the numbers away.
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>Just read yesterday (in may weekly news digest):
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>Since JFK was assassinated there have been more Americans killed by gun, by their fellow citizens, than in all the wars of the 20th century put together.
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>A comparison of similar cities: Seattle and Vancouver showed that whereas the number of people dying of violence in general was about the same, that of those dying of gunshots in the Canadian city was only a fraction of that in the American city. Can't remember what the study period was.
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>Nuff said