Guns now No. 2 cause of accidental child death in county

[SecularMotion]

A 4-year-old Harris County boy died after shooting himself in the head Tuesday, adding to a toll that's become the second leading cause of accidental death for children in Harris County.

Only motor vehicles account for a larger percentage of accidental deaths, according to Harris County Institute of Forensic Science statistics. Of the 1,074 minors who died in Harris County from 2011 to 2014, about 1 in 8 was killed by a gun, according to the data.

That's an average of 27 child fatalities by guns a year for that span.

Two minors have already died from accidental gunshots in 2016 - Bryson Hernandez, who shot himself in the head at his grandparents' Cypress-area home early Tuesday, and a 15-year-old who was shot by his older brother on Jan. 16 in southwest Houston.

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Guns-now-No-2-cause-of-accidental-child-death-in-6778657.php

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

1. I checked the 2014 info from the CDC

For ages 0 - 17 nationwide, 74 accidental deaths were firearm related, 763 were drownings, 72 were due to falls, 266 were due to fire, 22 were related to machinery, 89 were from natural or environmental causes, 81 were due being struck by or against something, 1,196 were from suffocation and 2,336 were related to motor vehicles.

Perhaps the unusual result in the linked article is unique to the Houston area. Perhaps this post belongs in the Texas group.

Perhaps it's also misleading to call 17 year olds "children".

[beevul]

2. Perhaps...

74 accidental deaths were firearm related, 763 were drownings, 72 were due to falls, 266 were due to fire, 22 were related to machinery, 89 were from natural or environmental causes, 81 were due being struck by or against something, 1,196 were from suffocation and 2,336 were related to motor vehicles.

According to those numbers, it sure doesn't look like guns come in second.

Perhaps it's also misleading to call 17 year olds "children".

Perhaps. Perhaps 'misleading' continues to be the entire point.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

4. re: "Perhaps 'misleading' continues to be the entire point."

I'm sure Miss Leading isn't the attention whore you take her for.

[DonP]

5. Like Brady calling 20+ year old gang members "children" misleading?

[Lizzie Poppet]

3. What I think happened was the incompetent author mashed-up stats...

...for accidental deaths and all firearms-related deaths of minors. Obviously Harris County didn't have 1/3 of all accidental firearms-related deaths of minors in the country.

If SecMo actually spent a few seconds actually vetting his spam, we'd have been spared this idiocy. But being correct or informative isn't the point, is it?

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

6. I hope you're not advocating...

...the need to license and qualify the press. That's just un-PRESS-idented.


Or as I've heard before, "I know you think you understand what you believe I said but I'm not sure what you realize that what you heard is not what I really meant."

These are big picture folks; details don't matter.

[beevul]

7. As we often hear, no right is absolute.

[Lizzie Poppet]

8. Okay, that's a truly odd response.

But what the heck...I live in Portland. I'm real used to odd.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

9. Hey their pics are in the book under...

...obfuscation. I'm just following suit.

[Lizzie Poppet]

10. Awesome double-down!

I haven't had less actual communication occur in a series of replies in a while. Not complaining or being insulting, mind...I like bizarrre, awkward shit like this.

Of course, I am a sociopath, so maybe take it with a grain of salt...

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

11. A grain??? Maybe the whole damn shaker.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

12. sociopath you say...

...me too, I'm a special variety, software engineer.

[Eleanors38]

13. Oh, baloney. Under 80 deaths in the U.S. an entire YEAR. Really. nt

[ileus]

14. goofy lies...shame on the hustontellalie.

http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa-cause-of-death-by-age-and-gender

[beevul]

15. A truthless driveby by an anti.

I'm detecting a trend here.

[ileus]

16. Why isn't this posted in the forum designed for the gullible?

[DonP]

17. Way too crowded and busy there

[beevul]

18. There was no room, because of all the boxes...

There was no room, because of all the boxes of garbage.

[Duckhunter935]

19. I see that

I do not know how that host can find the time to dump here. Moderating that group is a full time job.