American is a violent nation. one of the most violent Western nations.
http://www.neahin.org/programs/schoolsafety/gunsafety/statistics.htm#america
Every day, more than 80 Americans die from gun violence. (Coalition to Stop Gun Violence)
American children are more at risk from firearms than the children of any other industrialized nation.
The problem with "Agenda" groups and their stats is that 1) they're usually very wrong, and 2) they never tell the whole story.
For starters, the 80 a day figure is totally bogus. The actual number for 2005 (according to the FBI) is actually 29 per day, and well over half of those were suicides, not homicides.
As for your claims about American children being more at risk from firearms than anywhere else is also a very misleading and subjective statement. You failed to qualify exactly what you consider to be an "industrialized nation", and you failed to qualify exactly what you consider "children" to be. Many African nations are "industrialized", yet far more children die from firearms related injuries than all firearms related deaths in the US.
According to the CDC, for 2006 there were a total of 642 fatalities due to the accidental discharge of a firearm, and of that number 54 were of children under the age of 14. Due to CDC data collection techniques (they include 15-24 year olds in the same age group) it is impossible to determine exactly how many 15 to 18 year olds were killed by the accidental dischage of a firearm, yet using simple mathematics, of the 193 accidental firearms related fatalities among 15-24 year olds and assuming 19.3 for each of the 10 ages represented, that gives us a total of 131 'children' (those 18 years of age or younger) killed by the accidental discharge of a firearm. Conversely, 6 times as many, specifically 781 children (those 18 years of age and under) died from drowning, and I don't hear anyone calling for banning swimming pools, and nearly 6,500 died in automobile collisions but I don't hear anyone calling for cars to be outlawed.
If we then consider intentional homicides of children (those under 18 years of age) where a firearm was used, we find 1,733 fatalities. As horrific as that number is, it must be pointed out that in the age group up to 14 years of age, only 285 homicides, which supports the FBI's data that the majority of juvenile firearms related fatalities are drug and/or gang related, and in the overwhelming majority of incidents the firearm used was stolen or otherwise illegally possessed. It is also prudent to point out that in the group up to 14 years of age, homicide by means other than firearm accounted for 807 fatalities, or more than 3 times as many deaths as by firearms.
Anyway, all of that to say that once one looks at the REAL data, it renders the entire argument about firearms related deaths among children as a reason to ban or control firearms to be intellectually bankrupt because there are a whole lot of factors that are responsible for a whole lot more deaths among children, and everyone else for that matter, than firearms!
