Just sickening.

The man's a convicted felon. Why would you pick him as your President?

Only 21% were ?unintentional??  Does that mean 79% were deliberate assaults?  

I'm glad you brought up this issue.  Some how we imagine that injuries don't matter.  I don't know the figures but many of those must result in permanent disfigurement or disability.  Does the center for disease control or other organization have an estimate of the cost of accidental gun injuries to the nation?

The NRA knows how to pick 'em.  Why Ollie North never went to prison is beyond me.  His role in Iran Contra needs to be re-opened if he is going to lead a national organization.  Can he answer for instance why he shredded mountains of documents just ahead of investigators?  Can he explain why Fawn Hall hid documents in her underwear to smuggle them out of his office to be destroyed?  How, if he was obeying Pres. Reagan to defy the will of congress and play international gun runner, could the Pres. claim not to have known anything about it?  How did North keep VP Bush out of the loop?  And all this time North had an office in the basement of the White House.

Most felons are forbidden from being around guns at all.  Only powerful friends with $$ fixed the court to have his convictions dropped.

All of this should be re-litigated in the press.

thestep said:

Does that mean 79% were deliberate assaults?

I guess so.

thestep said:

Does the center for disease control or other organization have an estimate of the cost of accidental gun injuries to the nation?

PubMed Central (PMC)

Cost of hospitalization for firearm injuries by firearm type, intent, and payer in the United States

Firearm injuries disproportionately affect young, male, non-White populations, causing substantial individual and societal burden. Annual costs for hospitalized firearm injuries have not been widely described, as most previous cost studies have focused ...

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MarketWatch

This is how much gun injuries cost the U.S. every year

The government pays for 40% of firearm-injury hospitalizations.

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thestep said:

Why Ollie North never went to prison is beyond me. 

Me too.

A federal judge sentenced Oliver North to work in an inner-city anti-drug program and pay $150,150 in fines Wednesday but said it would do no good to send him to prison for his Iran-Contra felony convictions.

Instead, U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell gave the former White House aide a three-year suspended sentence and two years probation for his criminal role in the worst scandal of Ronald Reagan's presidency.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/07/05/No-jail-time-for-North-1200-hours-of-service/9993615614400/