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Gun News Daily Mandating Gun Safety William Lolli CalNRA Contributing Editor October 8, 1999 Editors Note: The below is contributed by permission of Joseph G. Lolli. Mr. Lolli is a certified commercial real estate appraiser and investment broker in Charleston, South Carolina. He is active in the state promoting conservative and libertarian issues that stress civil rights preservation and freedom from the burdens imposed by an over-regulating government. Oh, and I almost forgot, he is my brother.
Mandating Gun Safety © by Joseph G. Lolli, 1999 According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), there have been a total of 81 children killed by firearms in public schools between 1982 and 1999... including all those killed at Columbine High School. 81 deaths over the past 17 years or less than 4.8 kids per year. By comparison, National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration reports * that since 1993 there have been 97 children killed by government mandated air bags in our automobiles! NHTSA says; "The annual number of confirmed fatally-injured children increased significantly from 1993 through 1996 (1 in 1993, 5 in 1994, 8 in 1995 and 22 in 1996)." If we include the deaths under investigation (17), this is an average of 29 children killed each year by government mandated air bags! That's almost six times the number of children that died from "gun violence in our schools. If there were as many passenger side air-bag equipped cars on the road as there are guns in our homes, that ratio would climb to more than 362 children killed each year by the government's mandated safety device... compared to the less than five children killed by firearms. This is the same government that now wants to mandate safety devices on our guns. Free Minds, Free Markets. Joe Lolli Edisto Island, SC * http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/airbags/rule/section02
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