It's not armed robbers or warring gangs who send the greatest percentage of gunshot survivors to Florida emergency rooms.
It's people who shoot someone, or themselves, accidentally.
Four out of every 10 people who are rushed to a Florida hospital or emergency room with a nonfatal wound were shot by accident, according to hospital data collected by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration and published by the Florida Department of Health.
It's a far bigger problem in Florida than elsewhere — double the national average the past three years — according to numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In Orange County, it's even worse: More than half of the people treated for nonfatal gunshot injuries last year were shot accidentally.
It's interesting to note that Florida lies in between California and Illinois for the percentage of gunshot injuries that are accidental. In other words, it doesn't look like gun laws have anything to do with it.
ReplyDeleteIt's also interesting to note that the article puts the percentage of homes with firearms under the national average, yet Baldr recently referred to it as the "gunshine state".
DeleteYour definition of "accidental" is a lie. Par for you.
DeleteI find it surprising that the percentage of gun homes would be below the national average.
DeleteAnonymous, I took the word, accidental, from the source article.
DeleteNot talking about this post. I find it interesting that your definition of "accidental" changes constantly. A trait of a liar.
DeleteYour trait of calling everything you disagree with a lie is simply tedious, especially since you never offer support for what you say.
DeleteIt's your words that promote criminality, not mine. You are the who has been asked many times to support your claims with facts, and you refuse. Look at all the "please present facts to support your statement" requests, and you refuse to respond to any of them. No surprise since you are the sites lying criminal coward, but those requests for facts from you are there for all to read. Now back to your approval of the antisemetic description of a Mayor.
DeleteSo there must be twice the idiots in FL.
ReplyDeleteThere are no ACCIDENTAL shootings, only negligent. And NDs should be punished by mandatory 3 years in lockup.
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ReplyDelete'He has treated gunshot victims with wounds to "their arms, legs, their head, their torso, I've seen it everywhere," said Promes, who urges gun owners to take a safety class. "It's no different than a seat belt. Your chance of injury goes down dramatically."
No public agency in Central Florida — not the Orange County Sheriff's Office, the Orlando Police Department, local branches of the state Health Department or the Florida Safety Council — routinely holds classes on gun safety.
"Might that be a gap?" asked Ralls, Orange County's medical director. "Maybe."
This would be a good area for both sides of the issue to work together. As was shown in the article in detail, while there is a need for gun safety classes to be offered to gun owners, there is also a need among those who would not normally be considered, namely children.
As in dealing with training in safe sex, just because someone thinks a kid is too young to have sex, they will think they are too young to possess a gun, but those thoughts have no effect on the consequences when the kid surprises you.
As happened during the push for education for safe sex, initially the parents will get the vapors and object on the basis their little darlins would never do that. Or they will say it isn't the school's place to do that.
But somehow for the most part, most everyone has survived the transition as would likely happen if we were to implement the same policy for gun safety training. And the end result would be fewer accidental shooting involving children. And the training would trickle upwards as the children become adults, decreasing accidental shootings among adults. Not seeing any negatives.
Sure, you know where we can work together? We an start taking gun negligence more seriously.
DeleteNot on your terms, Mikeb.
DeleteThat sounds like compromise from the site liar.
DeleteOh, but I'm sure it's only the "irresponsible" gun owners who are doing the shooting....
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