Mercnbeth
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Firearm deaths make news. Children, accidental or intentionally, injured or killed by firearms are evening news lead stories. Realty is if the causes of accidental childhood death were to be prioritized; going after the guns would only occur after bicycles, and swimming pools. Drowning is the second leading cause of death, yet no one is pushing for making it illegal to have a pool in your home if you have a child under 10.
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Injury is the leading cause of death in children over 1 year of age. In 2001, 5,526 children died from unintentional injuries.
Falls are the leading cause of unintentional injury for children. Children ages 14 and under account for one-third of all fall-related visits to hospital emergency rooms.
In 2002, nearly 300,000 children ages 14 and under were treated in the US for bicycle-related injuries. Nearly half (47 percent) of children ages 14 and under hospitalized for bicycle-related injuries are diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury.
Drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury-related death among children ages one to 14. The majority of drownings and near-drownings occur in residential swimming pools and in open water sites. However, children can drown in as little as one inch of water.
Airway obstruction injury is the leading cause of unintentional injury-related death among infants under age one.
Approximately 45 percent of unintentional injury deaths occurred in and around the home. Unintentional home injury deaths to children are caused primarily by fire and burns, suffocation, drowning, firearms, falls, choking and poisoning.
Source: http://www.chkd.org/Poisoning_and_Injuries/stats.asp
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My Father was a hunter and we saw from the time that we could walk just exactly what a gun was capable of. We learned to have a great respect for their power.
this slave speaks from her experiences of youth, with two siblings within 4 years of her age...at 6 we moved to a rural area, just over the hill from a National Forest that spans well over a million acres, complete with cougars, bears, boar, etc. it was also 40 minutes out from the nearest sheriff's substation and was NOT patrolled by any law enforcement. next to the front door, propped in the corner, sat a LOADED 410/22 rifle. not ONCE in the next 10 years of living there did this slave or either of her siblings NOT know what it was for, the damage it could do, how to handle it, clean it, use it or respect it. at 10 this slave shot a 12 gauge for the first time. Dad took us to the local firing range, we would practice shoot at home, we learned to shoot both pistols and rifles. there was no mysterious lockbox, no "wonder what this can do?" running around in this slave's mind. she knew from first hand experience, the only thing to point that thing at is the ground when you are carrying it around other living things you don't intend to shoot or at the predator that is threatening you or your loved one or livestock's life.
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Because there was this thing in homes of that time called discipline. There was respect for your parents and their teachings..."I will tan your hide in such a way that you will not be able to sit for a month".
as one who had her hide tanned as well, parents these days can't even make the threat...much less follow through, and that's a damn shame to have authority usurped like that...every time this slave's hide was tanned she deserved it, it was an extremely infrequent punishment, not some form of abuse, but that opinion isn't very PC...now even the threat is prosecutable. that extends out to the school as well~in this slave's elementary school which included K-8, there was a large wooden paddle hanging on the wall in the Principal's office and EVERYONE knew it was there and the principal wasn't afraid to use it. PUBLIC school. this slave remembers hearing about it's use twice, on an 8th grade boy both times, in the 5 years she attended, but you can bet it was in the back of the kids minds when the threat of going to the Principal's office
was made, and many a kid straightened up.
the only other point this slave would like to comment on is that MOM wasn't going to the job every day and neither was DAD until this slave was 12. having a parent at home during the day might seem a waste of income earning potential, but this slave doesn't think any amount of money can compensate for it.
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Thoughts inspired by another post regarding guns..... - 
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