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Firearms - Injury Statistics and Incidence Rates

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KerFuFFler6/07/2014 12:38:44 pm PDT

Why are intentional shootings left out of the picture? It seems disingenuous to label the report as describing “Firearms - Injury Statistics and Incidence Rates” and then leave out an entire category of firearm injuries and deaths. I imagine intentional shootings are a much smaller percentage of incidences, but still, it seems like a glaring omission.

It is true that there is really nothing that can be done prevention-wise by family members to avoid random shooting rampages in public, but there are also plenty of abusive family members that intentionally kill kids. It would be good to not hide the stats on those so more people would recognize the danger of keeping weapons in households with violent dynamics.