WASHINGTON — Between 2006 and 2010, 561 children age 12 and under were killed by firearms, according to the FBI’s most recent Uniform Crime Reports.
The numbers each year have been consistent: 120, 115, 116, 114, and 96 in 2010. The FBI’s count does not include gun-related child deaths that authorities have ruled accidental.
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It is a given that NO child should be murdered. However, this article focuses on death by firearm, at the very end it gives a cursory "nod" to the other forms of murder that are perpetrated on children. Nowhere does it state how many children under the age of 12 are murdered every year. This deprives the reader from getting any perspective of the situation.
So here is what you missed. By my tally from the same information used by the author, 627 children were murdered in 2010. The most common way for them to die was by "Personal Weapons" which the FBI defines as "hands, fists, feet, etc", not guns, 248 were killed that way.
Before someone posts that I am saying it is ok that children die from gunfire, no, I am not. But being beaten to death tells us all something about our violent culture and it does not always have to do with the availability of guns.