jim wrote:

Tom Gardner wrote:

* Twice as many children are killed playing football in school than
are murdered by guns. That's right. Despite what media coverage might
seem to indicate, there are more deaths related to high school
football than guns. In a recent three year period, twice as many
football players died from hits to the head, heat stroke, etc. (45),
as compared with students who were murdered by firearms (22) during
that same time period.


So what exactly is the point of presenting such statistics? I suspect if
you made football in high school illegal and made guns in high school
legal, the number of deaths due to guns would be far greater than the
number of deaths due to football. But what would that prove?

Guns in high school used to be legal and guess what, there were no high
school gunfights.