My hope for 2013: Escape the Average.

[Robb]

Average of 2 Children Shot to Death in U.S. Every Week (not including Accidents)

The public and political outrage that followed the Newtown school shooting has largely ignored the fact that children across the country have been victims of gun violence on a regular basis.

Between 2006 and 2010 an average of two children a week were killed by firearms, according to statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

During this period, 561 children under the age of 13 died as a result of gunfire. In almost each of the five years, more than 100 youths were killed: 120 in 2006; 115 in 2007; 116 in 2008; 114 in 2009; and 96 in 2010. Last year, 119 died, according to Janell Ross of the Huffington Post.

The FBI’s numbers do not include gun-related child deaths that were ruled as accidental....

Read More: http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/average-of-2-children-shot-to-death-in-us-every-week-not-including-accidents-121231?news=846627

[RKP5637]

1. This, is a nation of professional mourners. We have major catastrophes all of the time and not much

happens as people roam in their ruts of life. And, we have small incidents daily which when added up are major, but with not much attention paid, because they are diffused.

And much of it occurs because of the do-nothing critters elected to congress. Time will pass and so will this, until the next major catastrophe, and people will jump up and down, and flail their arms about, how could this happen, and politicians/businesses (often the same) will use it for their personal gain and those of their cronies.

[Robb]

2. Kick.