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Related: About this forumStudy Flags Seven States With High Rates of Accidental Gun Deaths
The study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that seven states — West Virginia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and Tennessee — all suffered from disproportionately high rates of unintentional firearm deaths.
The researchers noted that none of the states have laws requiring the safe storage of guns, have been shown to prevent accidental shootings, particularly among children.
"Restricting access for unauthorized individuals through safe storage of firearms might help to reduce the large disparity of unintentional firearm deaths occurring in these states," the Johns Hopkins researchers wrote.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/study-flags-seven-states-high-rates-accidental-gun-deaths-n525621
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CBGLuthier
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sarisataka
(21,340 posts)is that it was hidden.
A poster accidentally posted a truism while attempting to broadbrush gun owners-
DonP
(6,185 posts)I've come to the conclusion that the reason gun control is so pathetic as a movement, is because instead of actually ever doing anything legislatively, they spend all their time, effort and money on "studies" that say what they want them to say. Hoping against hope (and experience) that somehow just the right "study", or just the sheer cumulative mass of "studies", will finally make their case and Australian style gun control will magically happen some day.
Must be the case, since the OP and his ilk seem to average posting about 4+ "studies" a week without comment or other support.
But then again, posting somebody else "study" is a lot easier than actually doing anything I guess. Plus you don't have to get off the couch or write a check.
They balance it by posting a steady stream of crime stories, since the True Crime Group never seems to get any of the love. I guess they are supposed to make gun owners feel guilty?
But, for some odd reason they don't seem to ever post much about all those gun control "wins" in the legislatures, state or Federal?
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Shows a U.S. map of childhood gun-related deaths, but are these deaths accidental or do they include homicides? If the latter, the data of a little over SIXTY (60) deaths each YEAR of is spread pretty thin over fifty states. If the latter, then the researchers are mixing two data sets.
SoLeftIAmRight
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awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Since when are WV and KY the south?
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)But I have never cared about such labels.
Being from the north, I usually associate them with "the south", the eastern USA south of Ohio-Penn-NJ.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I never really considered them southern.
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)Kentucky was one of the four slave states that stayed in the Union, the other three were Missouri, Delaware, and Maryland. WV seceded from Virginia when Virginia seceded from the Union.