Missed the point
Erik Streib, M.D. is unhappy that a recent John Stossel column said that exaggerated gun violence was a media fed myth. I think Stossel is pretty much right. Streib writes:
Commentator John Stossel made claims based on a misrepresentation of data and presented conclusions that cannot be supported by facts. Most disturbing was his implication that the risk of gun violence to children is exaggerated. In reporting that less than 100 children ages 15 and younger die annually due to gun accidents, he ignores the more than 500 deaths due to intentional injuries and the approximately 3,000 non-fatal firearm injuries in this group.
That’s because Stossel was addressing gun accidents with children, which always make the news and are quite rare.
January 21st, 2006 at 4:07 am
And most of those intentional injuries are probably caused by street gangs. Of course, they could just concentrate on destroying the gangs instead of their weapons, whether it be guns, knives, or chains.