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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 07:11 AM Apr 2016

Report highlights increase in gun deaths involving children in Wisconsin

The number of children killed by guns in Wisconsin has risen in the past few years, prompting new calls for efforts to help limit access to firearms for some of the most vulnerable.

A report from the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families found a 31-percent increase in the rate of children killed by guns between 2008 and 2014. The group’s Tamarine Cornelius says that followed several years of declines in the state and nationally. “We’ve made some really great progress in reducing the number of children killed by guns, but that progress is being threatened,” she says.

The rate jumped from 1.3 deaths per 100,000 kids between 2008-10 to 1.7 by 2014. The numbers include any death involving someone under the age of 18 and a firearm, whether it be as the result of a suicide, accident, or criminal activity. Wisconsin’s rate is still below the national average, as it has been for about the past decade.

Cornelius notes the rate disproportionately affects children from African American communities, who are five times more likely as children of other races to be killed by a gun. She says they believe there are many factors that go into that, although major contributors are high poverty levels and less opportunities for children of color.

http://www.wrn.com/2016/04/report-highlights-increase-in-gun-deaths-involving-children-in-wisconsin/
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Report highlights increase in gun deaths involving children in Wisconsin (Original Post) SecularMotion Apr 2016 OP
Madison gang offenses increase dramatically over last decade hack89 Apr 2016 #1
Let's do the math... Eleanors38 Apr 2016 #2
suicide, accident, or criminal activity...it's needs broken down. ileus Apr 2016 #3

hack89

(39,179 posts)
1. Madison gang offenses increase dramatically over last decade
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 08:50 AM
Apr 2016
"The gang violence is here. We have gun violence here. And these gangs are committing horrific acts," said Madison police Sgt. Brian Chaney, who supervises the city’s gang unit.

Between 2012 and 2014, the number of known gang members charged with offenses, on average, grew 350 percent as compared to 2004. Of that, violent crimes involving a firearm, weapon or bodily harm on average surged 195 percent


http://www.channel3000.com/news/Madison-gang-offenses-increase-dramatically-over-last-decade/31060466

The word "children" in your OP is deceptive in that with an upper threshold of 18, it encompasses a lot of violent felons.

 

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
2. Let's do the math...
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 03:17 PM
Apr 2016

Wisc. Pop est. in 2016: 5.78 Million

The 1.3 deaths/100k (2008-10) comes to 74.2 a year.

The 1.7 deaths/100k (2014) comes to 97.2 a year.

Both these yearly totals are below the childhood (under 15 yoa) death-by-gun accident figure FOR THE ENTIRE NATION. So how do we get the larger figures in Wisc.?

The OP suggests from where when it reports that "children" (18 or under, for some peculiar reason) are five times more likely to die in African-American communities. Since overall blacks are significantly less likely to own guns when compared with the general population, this would suggest a concentration of gun ownership within AA communities is accounting for these deaths, and it is very likely that most of these are homicides.

I don't really like studies which bushel basket suicides, homicides, accidents into one category, then juke them around to fit some "gun violence" narrative. Social policy takes a back seat to prohibition politics.

ileus

(15,396 posts)
3. suicide, accident, or criminal activity...it's needs broken down.
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 03:27 PM
Apr 2016

but somehow I'd bet the "report" isn't meant for the thinking individual

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