Here's something from John's Hopkins:

http://www.jhsph.edu/gunpolicy/IPV_firearms2.pdf

If I were a female I would find these stats rather a little shocking. And give me cause for concern the next time my NRA membership was due.

>I have not responded because you did not post a reliable link so I could research the data. There is no way to prove/disprove what you posted. It could be valid or you could have made it up or your source could be unreliable. A blog is not a reliable source. If you could post her sources for her stats though that would at least give a place to start. I did find this though (from Yale and safe kids.org):
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>http://ymghealthinfo.org/content.asp?pageid=P02982
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>The following statistics were are the latest available from the National SAFE KIDS Campaign:
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>Injury and death rates:
>The number of unintentional deaths from firearms declined 80 percent from 1997 to 2002.
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>In 2002, 60 children ages 14 and under died from unintentional firearm-related injuries; more than half of those children were between the ages of 10 and 14.
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>Non-powder gun-related injuries (for example, BB guns or pellet guns) sent nearly 8,300 children to hospital emergency rooms for treatment in 2003.
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>Where and when:
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>Most unintentional firearm-related deaths among children occur in or around the home; 50 percent at the home of the victim, and 40 percent at the home of a friend or relative.
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>The presence of a firearm in the home increases the risk of unintentional firearm-related death among children (especially if the firearm is loaded and kept unlocked).
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>Most unintentional firearm-related child deaths involve guns that were loaded and accessible, and occur when children play with the gun.
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>More than one-half of firearm owners keep their firearms loaded and ready for use some of the time.
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>The sources for their stats are listed here:
>http://ymghealthinfo.org/content.asp?pageid=P02991
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>>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:
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>>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.
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>>Here is the population of Japan: 127,463,611.
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>>Here is the number of children killed by guns in Japan every year: 0.
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>>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.
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>>In 2004, guns were most commonly used by males to murder their female partners.
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>>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.
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>>>>>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