25% of Shooting Victims in Louisville are Children

[donsu]

http://www.gunguys.com/#post-1445




University Hospital in Louisville, KY has released a frightening statistic: 25% of shooting victims delivered to their hospital are under the age of 21.

About a quarter of all gunshot victims in Louisville in the past decade have been under 21, according to a University Hospital database of all the people treated there for gunshot wounds, including fatalities.

While there is no comparable national data, Dr. Bill Smock, who leads a team of researchers preparing the statistics, believes the numbers are disturbing — and hopes they might provide a basis for programs to curb the violence.

“There’s an opportunity to intervene more than what the community’s already doing,” Smock said, adding that a gunshot wound “has a ripple effect across the community — the family is distraught, the drain on police resources, the drain on the hospital.”

The University Hospital database was started with a $118,000 grant from the U.S. attorney’s office, but that money ran out in July, and Smock is trying to find $60,000 to keep a full-time research nurse to maintain the database and work with community leaders interested in developing prevention strategies.

So far, University Hospital and the Metro Health Department have committed $20,000 each.

There’s no question that the monetary cost of gunshot wounds in America is staggering. An overflow of guns (literally manufactured by the gun industry) costs us millions if not billions of dollars in health care and resources. And it’s especially sickening that a full quarter of those costs are going specifically to children injured by gun violence.
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sickening

but all the manly gun nuts will try to explain this away. gotta have and carry their guns.

guess our kids are just collateral damange

[billbuckhead]

1. They'll focus on the age of study of children being up to 21yrs old

That makes it allright somehow.

[Wcross]

3. Nobody is going to say people getting shot is "allright"

On the other hand, bending the statistics to increase the number of victims is?

[Wcross]

2. I found this interesting.....

Quoted from the same link;

"Other hospitals don’t keep comprehensive databases on gunshot wounds — although Kosair reports that just since January, it’s seen 23 young people for gunshots, including 16 from BB or pellet guns."

So I can say "Over 2/3rds of all young people shot are victims of bb guns"?

Also, you are right people will focus on the term "children" because it is misused in this case.
Here is a definition of child;
child (chīld)
n., pl. chil·dren (chĭl'drən).

A person between birth and puberty.
A person who has not attained maturity or the age of legal majority.

The age of legal majority is 18 years old. Seeing as no hard statistics were provided with the story it is hard to get a REAL % of children who were gunshot victims in Louisville.