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Eleanors38

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2. Let's do the math...
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 04:17 PM
Apr 2016

Wisc. Pop est. in 2016: 5.78 Million

The 1.3 deaths/100k (2008-10) comes to 74.2 a year.

The 1.7 deaths/100k (2014) comes to 97.2 a year.

Both these yearly totals are below the childhood (under 15 yoa) death-by-gun accident figure FOR THE ENTIRE NATION. So how do we get the larger figures in Wisc.?

The OP suggests from where when it reports that "children" (18 or under, for some peculiar reason) are five times more likely to die in African-American communities. Since overall blacks are significantly less likely to own guns when compared with the general population, this would suggest a concentration of gun ownership within AA communities is accounting for these deaths, and it is very likely that most of these are homicides.

I don't really like studies which bushel basket suicides, homicides, accidents into one category, then juke them around to fit some "gun violence" narrative. Social policy takes a back seat to prohibition politics.

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