Sunday, September 29, 2013

Children And Guns: Statistical Idiosyncrasies Hide True Toll

Children And Guns:  The Hidden Toll by Michael Luo and Mike McIntire.  The New York Times.  September 28, 2013.

(1)  The Times found that accidental shooting deaths of children occurred at roughly twice what official records indicate because of idiosyncrasies in how_______________________________.

(2)  The lower official numbers have been cited by the NRA opposing ____________________.

(3)  Firearms have been exempted from regulation by the ______________________ since its inception.

(4)  Even with a proper county of accidental deaths of children, intention shooting deaths of children far ___________________________.

(5)  According to the Times, a vast majority of cases of children shooting deaths revolved around children's _________________ with the shooting either _________________.

(6)  Boys often showed that they _____________ handling a gun disregarding _________________.
(7)  The undercount found by the Times stems from the peculiarities by which medical examiners and coroners make their "___________" rulings.  Most simply call any death in which one person shoots another a ____________.

(8)  To address the statistical undercount researchers have pushed for an expansion of the ___________________________ which at present is up and running in only _______ states.

(9)  Tracking ____________ might be a better way to track gun accidents than deaths.

(10)  The third most common age of gun deaths was ________.

(11)  About half of gun accidents took place ___________________ with a third occurring _______________.

(12)  ______________ were most often the shooters in gun accidental shootings.

(13)  Where criminals were involved they usually were not the ones___________________.

(14)  While the NRA claims that its educational efforts have created the steep decline in accidental gun deaths from the 80's, other explanations could be ________________.

(15)  What are some of the technological barriers to developing a "smart gun?"

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