Comment: Had Rangel been judging, maybe Miss SC

In post: Charlie Rangel: 'Millions Of Kids' Being Gunned Down By 'Automatic Military Weapons'

Had Rangel been judging, maybe Miss SC

Submitted by mdefarge on Fri, 03/22/2013 - 11:37. Permalink

would have won. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

Murders by Type of Weapon Used [FBI Statistics 2011]
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/c...

"...the percentage of overall deaths that were the result of falling off things like rocks and ladders was 1 percent, or nearly three times the percentage of deaths that were gun-related [all guns]: 26,631 versus 8,583." http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/15/Percentag...

Child Mortality in U.S. [Nat'l Center for Health Statistics]
http://www.childdeathreview.org/nationalchildmortalitydata.htm
Given the number of children murdered/year by firearms (2,186) it would take almost A THOUSAND YEARS to reach two million ("millions"). But assault rifle murders are a miniscule amount of all murders; it would be more like TENS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS. How about we focus on the big numbers: congenital anomalies and childhood diseases.