Posted by Phil Lee (216.250.238.162) on October 08, 2000 at 20:08:
Let's give a tip of the hat to historian Clayton E. Cramer (writing in the July 1 edition of Shotgun News) for going directly to the web site of the Centers for Disease Control
(www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/statab/unpubd/mortabs/gmwki.htm -- search under ICD 922.0)
and looking up the actual number of American children under the age of 15 who are killed in handgun accidents each year.
For 1997, that number was 21 -- down from a high of 55 in 1990.
No, that's not a typo. Twenty-one children dead in handgun accidents in the whole of America in the entire year 1997.