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Thread #110179   Message #2314041
Posted By: Bill D
12-Apr-08 - 11:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: Debate: NRA good or Evil?
Subject: RE: BS: Debate: NRA good or Evil?
"...We don't let babies and kids play wiith them... We try to keep them outta schools and, for the most part, do that rather well..."

awww..Bobert, my friend..We only have a 'few' school shootings each year?

and is THIS 'doing pretty well'?: "Richard Aborn, a national gun control advocate and former homicide prosecutor, cited the following statistics: Across the U.S., 15 kids die every day from gunshot wounds. Injuries from firearms are the fourth leading cause of accidental death for children between the ages of 5 and 14. A youngster between the ages of 10 and 19 commits suicide with a handgun every six hours. Hospital emergency rooms treat four kids for gunshot wounds for every one that is killed by gunfire."

(that was from the N.Y. Times