@Pinochet73,
Pinochet73;49462 wrote:Yeah, but we don't kill our newly born daughters, or bind their feet such that they can't ever walk, when we decide to let them live. We don't starve unwanted kids in government orphanages, either. But hey.....if want to believe the US is demonic and China, angelic, go for it. Get that dang old thang dun now, ya hear?:giterdone:
Aye your right, hands up you got me, no point defending China, they have an appauling record on Human rights, you have no argument here.
Interesting information on the US though.
Gun Violence Statistics
In a single year, 3,012 children and teens were killed by gunfire in the United States, according to the latest national data released in 2002. That is one child every three hours; eight children every day; and more than 50 children every week. And every year, at least 4 to 5 times as many kids and teens suffer from non-fatal firearm injuries. (Children's Defense Fund and National Center for Health Statistics)
American children are more at risk from firearms than the children of any other industrialized nation. In one year, firearms killed no children in Japan, 19 in Great Britain, 57 in Germany, 109 in France, 153 in Canada, and 5,285 in the United States. (Centers for Disease Control)
America is losing too many children to gun violence. Between 1979 and 2001, gunfire killed 90,000 children and teens in America. (Children's Defense Fund and National Center for Health Statistics)
In one year, more children and teens died from gunfire than from cancer, pneumonia, influenza, asthma, and HIV/AIDS combined. (Children's Defense Fund)
The rate of firearm deaths among kids under age 15 is almost 12 times higher in the United States than in 25 other industrialized countries combined. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Anyone else see these figures as barbaric or 'just the way it is'?