MASS SHOOTING ( Archived) (253)

I have a disrespect ?

No, not you! I'm saying that when kids are brought up without morals, they don't fully understand the value of a human life.

Statistics: Gun Violence in Our Communities

School Safety
Less than 1% of all homicides among school-aged children (5-19 years of age) occur in or around school grounds or on the way to and from school. (Centers for Disease Control, 1997)

Children and Gun Violence
In a single year, 3,012 children and teens were killed by gunfire in the United States, according to the latest national data released in 2002. That is one child every three hours; eight children every day; and more than 50 children every week. And every year, at least 4 to 5 times as many kids and teens suffer from non-fatal firearm injuries. (Children's Defense Fund and National Center for Health Statistics)

America and Gun Violence
American children are more at risk from firearms than the children of any other industrialized nation. In one year, firearms killed no children in Japan, 19 in Great Britain, 57 in Germany, 109 in France, 153 in Canada, and 5,285 in the United States. (Centers for Disease Control)

Guns in the Wrong Hands
Faulty records enable terrorists, illegal aliens and criminals to purchase guns. Over a two and a half-year period, at least 9,976 convicted felons and other illegal buyers in 46 states obtained guns because of inadequate records. (Broken Records, Americans for Gun Safety Foundation)

School Safety

* Between 1994 and 1999, there were 220 school associated violent events resulting in 253 deaths - - 74.5% of these involved firearms. Handguns caused almost 60% of these deaths. (Journal of American Medical Association, December 2001)
* In 1998-99 academic year, 3,523 students were expelled for bringing a firearm to school. This is a decrease from the 5,724 students expelled in 1996-97 for bringing a firearm to school. (U.S. Department of Education, October 2000)
* Nearly 8% of adolescents in urban junior and senior high schools miss at least one day of school each month because they are afraid to attend. (National Mental Health & Education Center for Children & Families, National Association of School Psychologists 1998)
* The National School Boards Association estimates that more than 135,000 guns are brought into U.S. schools each day. (NSBA, 1993)

Children and Gun Violence

* America is losing too many children to gun violence. Between 1979 and 2001, gunfire killed 90,000 children and teens in America. (Children's Defense Fund and National Center for Health Statistics)
* In one year, more children and teens died from gunfire than from cancer, pneumonia, influenza, asthma, and HIV/AIDS combined. (Children's Defense Fund)
* The rate of firearm deaths among kids under age 15 is almost 12 times higher in the United States than in 25 other industrialized countries combined. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

America and Gun Violence

* Every day, more than 80 Americans die from gun violence. (Coalition to Stop Gun Violence)
* The rate of firearm deaths among kids under age 15 is almost 12 times higher in the United States than in 25 other industrialized countries combined. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
* American kids are 16 times more likely to be murdered with a gun, 11 times more likely to commit suicide with a gun, and nine times more likely to die from a firearm accident than children in 25 other industrialized countries combined. (Centers for Disease Control)

Taken from.......http://www.neahin.org/programs/schoolsafety/gunsafety/statistics.htm........



I just thought it would be worth posting this again......

I do agree that there are other factors that would also help, like education.

However I originally answered the OP by saying that banning guns would help and I still think it would.

It might help a little, but you cant just say that since there has been a few school shootings in the country that 300 million people cant have guns. That would be like saying that since 19 muslim hijackers killed 3000 people on 9/11 we are now banning Islam. Just doesn't make sense.

Plus I hear that Britain has a youth stabbing epidemic quite like Americas gun violence. So even if we took away all the guns, people will do what people do.

Far less? Did you know there are a 10,000 times more stabbings in schools than shootings?

If you get your facts strictly from the US media you are no better than a tabloid journalist.

zee

Banning guns would not get guns off the street. Are there not still shootings in the UK since the gun ban? Can you explain that? How can there be shootings when there are no guns? Makes no sense to me.

It is the choice of Americans to keep guns legal. Simple fact. When the Majority of Americans feel it is time to ban guns it will be banned. This is the beauty of having freedoms.

Americans also have the right NOT to own a gun.... thank god for the victims.

zee