Reply #20: more data [View All]

[Withergyld]

The National Center for Health Statistics has released preliminary mortality data for 2001.

This is a large (2.1 MB) pdf file. The data I am quoting is on page 17 of this report (Table 2)

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr51/nvsr51_05.pdf

I find the following firearm related causes of death:
Accidental Discharge: 924
Suicide : 16,445
Homicide: 11,001
Undetermined intent 222 (from page 18)
total 28,592 (from adding above figures)

Assuming All the accidental discharge deaths were children and undetermined were also children the total is 1146. Divide this by 365 and there are on average 3.14 deaths per day due to firearms. This is not even close to 16 every two hours. Not even 16 every two DAYS.

I am not trying to minimize deaths caused by firearms. Every child that dies is a tragedy. I am trying to show valid data.