The Undiscovered Country

Research by David Hemenway and Sara J. Solnick has shown that children under 14 in the United States have far higher rates of unintentional firearm death than children in other developed countries... [More]

Which countries would those be?  You guys didn't leave out Russia and Mexico again, did you?

And how come the linked "study" refers to "high income countries" in its citation?  Is that synonymous with "developed"?  Can't be too careful using precise terminology in studies, you know.

Because the source for the cite further qualifies things as "23 populous high-income Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development countries that provided data to the World Health Organization for 2003."

So we're not even current but we're still coming up with new conclusions? And it's only those that reported to WHO? This is starting to remind me of the "Mexican crime guns" scam-- first it was 95% came from U.S. gun shops and it whittled its way down to 70% of those recovered and reported, which ended up being something like 17% in one report I saw, which again had no correlation with the full auto stuff, grenades, etc. coming in from Guatemala and points unknown.

Then, of course, we need to break our own internal numbers down further and see how many domestic problems came from which population, and lo and behold- - I'll bet you could look at the stats for NRA members, arguably the most armed to the teeth civilian population on the planet, and our rates would approach statistical insignificance.

Meaning it's not the guns...?

But what do I know, not being "high income"or anything...?

[Via Michael G]