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Gun Control & RKBA

Eleanors38

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11. Most figures put childhood death-by-gun accidents below 70/yr. "Daily?"

Reply to SoCalMusicLover (Reply #4)

Sat Jan 23, 2016, 02:43 PM

Jan 2016

Not unless you are employing a newly-discovered ancient calendar, or a just-created new math.

The NSF says that accidental gun deaths by kids under 15 yoa is falling dramatically over the last 20 years, and now ranks well below many other causes of death.

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