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Related: About this forumAlmost Twice As Many Preschoolers Are Killed By Guns As Are Cops - graph
According to the Childrens Defense Fund, nearly twice as many preschoolers were killed by guns in 2008-2009 as there were law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty:
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/12/17/1343291/almost-twice-as-many-preschoolers-are-killed-by-guns-as-are-cops/
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)Little Star
(17,055 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)if we do not know how many pre-schoolers there are in the nation versus how many cops.
The number that would be informative is deaths per 100,000.
If there are 1 million policemen then their death rate would be 0.89 per 100,000
If there are 10 million preschoolers then their death rate would be 0.173, or about one quarter that of a policeman.
This number still might be too high but without more data the graph is useless.
Does anyone have a reliable count on these two groups?
thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)683,396 cops (.01% killed).........5 million preschoolers (.0000003% killed)
It doesn't make it any less sad though..............
Mika
(17,751 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,467 posts)It's our job to protect the smallest among us...