NYT on gun deaths
These are just two of several hundred such deaths that will almost certainly occur this year. Guns account for 10 percent of all injury-related deaths among children ages 5 to 14.
I guess they were called on it as they non-correct thusly:
The Personal Health column in Science Times yesterday, about gun safety, included an incorrect statistic from a medical journal on firearm deaths. They make up about 10 percent of deaths caused by injury among children aged 5 to 14, not 10 percent of all deaths in that age group.
According to the CDC’s WISQARS website, between 1999 and 2003 there were 14,242 “accidental injury” deaths among children between 5 and 14, and 297 (or 2.09%) were caused by firearms. And if you expand that artificial age range to include all children 14 and under, the percentage drops to 1.31%.
Still not right.
August 2nd, 2006 at 9:22 am
No kidding, what did they change?
August 2nd, 2006 at 12:50 pm
This quote from the article is illuminating:
If it were up to me, there would be no guns in any household with children under 18. Better yet, no guns in any household — children or no children. But with half of American homes now in possession of at least one gun, I know this is unlikely to happen. So the second-best measure is to make sure that guns are kept in a place and in a way that children can’t get to them.