Perhaps a few thousand children die and are injured each year by gun violence, but an estimated 3,154,000 children were reported to child protective service agencies as alleged victims of child abuse or neglect in 1998, and approximately one million of these reports were confirmed. Approximately three children died each day in the United States from abuse or neglect in 1997. While the nation s overall crime rate fell 22 percent from 1993 to 1997, reports of child abuse and neglect grew by 8 percent and confirmed cases increased 4 percent. During the period 1993-1997, Prevent Child Abuse America estimates that over 5,000 children died from abuse or neglect in the United States. Forty-five out of 1,000 children were reported as abused or neglected and 14 children out of 1,000 were confirmed as abused or neglected in 1998.
Children are more likely to be injured or killed by their parents.
Not by the needle-dick sex offender who didn't get sufficient treatment. Not by flying shards of glass. Not by the lunatic zipping along with a BAC three times the legal limit. Not by Dylan or Dillon or Dilon or Dyylaan and his semi-automatic weapon. These mothers crusading for safety for their children, and less freedom for the rest of us, aren't addressing the real problem.