On 2019-06-25 12:36 p.m., U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 11:21:56 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
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>>>> It is typical of them to use false information to support
>>>> their emotional issues about guns. A while back the Coalition
>>>> for Gun Control had a page on their website about the firearms
>>>> incidents involving children. There were only about three
>>>> dozen incidents reported and they spanned a period of more than
>>>> 25 years in order to get enough incidents to make it look like
>>>> an issue. Some of those incidents involved replica guns,
>>>> BBguns and pellet guns, which are not firearms. Some of the
>>>> others were threats by kids that they were going to go home and
>>>> get gun and come back and shoot someone, though none of them
>>>> actually came back with a gun, and goodness knows if there was
>>>> even a gun at the house. They were non incidents.
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> This study shows over 1300 children under 17 a year killed by guns
> and many more injured.
> https://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...-finds-n774086
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That may be the case in the US, but this was a Canadian organization
dealing with Canadian data, or in this case,factoids.