Did you know that there are more fatal accidents involving children and bicycles than there are involving children and guns?
It is documented in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) fatal injury database.
As you can see from the illustration, for the last 19 years, from 1999 to 2017, there were 2,467 children killed in fatal accidents involving bicycles, versus 1,994 children killed in fatal accidents involving a firearm.
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The total accidental deaths of children (unintended deaths) from 1999 to 2017 were 135,259. Fatal firearms accidents were 1.47 percent of the total. Many other circumstances accounted for much higher numbers of unintentional deaths than those occurring with firearms. Here are numbers from the CDC database for the same period, 1999-2017, for children aged 0 – 17.
Occupants of motor vehicles 27,189
Unknown situations, motor vehicles 24,201
Suffocation 21,008
Drowning 17,270
Pedestrians and motor vehicles 12,098
Fire/burning (non-residential) 7,982
Fire, residential 7,237
Poisoning 5,166
Other land transportation 3,489
Bicycles (pedal cycles) 2,467
Falls 2,118
Firearms 1,994
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Banning bicycles has not political advantage to the people who want to rule.
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