Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives (45 page)

3
. Ibid.

4
. Malcolm W. Klein and Cheryl L. Maxson,
Street Gang Patterns and Policies
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 81.

5
. Amy Nilson, “Thanksgiving Marks Violent Crime on San Jose,” Crime Voice, December 3, 2013,
http://www.crimevoice.com/2013/12/03/thanksgiving-marks-violent-crime-on-san-jose/
.

6
. Rodriguez, “San Jose: Teen Slain on Streets Named for Kids’ Tales.”

7
. Robert Salonga, “San Jose: Police Seeking Tips in Deadly Weekend Shooting,”
San Jose Mercury News,
November 27, 2013,
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_24607174/san-jose-police-still-seeking-tips-deadly-weekend
.

8
. “Official Crime Statistics,” Table 3, San Jose Police Department website,
http://www.sjpd.org/CrimeStats/crimestats.html
(accessed April 4, 2016); Dan Ivers, “Newark Had Nation’s Third Highest Murder Rate in 2013, FBI Says,”
NJ.com
,
November 17, 2014,
http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2014/11/newark_had_nations_third_highest_murder_rate_in_2013_fbi_says.html
; “Crime in the United States, 2013,” Table 8 (Ohio), FBI website,
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-8/table-8-state-cuts/table_8_offenses_known_to_law_enforcement_ohio_by_city_2013.xls
(accessed April 4, 2016).

9
. “City of San Jose,” Bay Area Census,
http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/SanJose50.htm
(accessed March 11, 2016).

10
. “San Jose Named Safest Big City,”
Silicon Valley Business Journal,
January 30, 2002,
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2002/01/28/daily37.html
.

11
. “Official Crime Statistics,” San Jose Police Department website, Table 3 (property crime and violent crime combined),
http://www.sjpd.org/CrimeStats/crimestats.html
(accessed May 13, 2016). Compare to national statistics for 2012: “FBI Releases 2012 Crime Statistics,” FBI website, September 16, 2013,
https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-2012-crime-statistics
(accessed May 13, 2016). Mike Rosenberg, “San Jose Crime Rate Surpasses U.S. average,”
San Jose Mercury News,
December 16 2013,
http://www.mercurynews.com/pensions/ci_24737175/san-jose-crime-rate-surpasses-u-s-average-arrests-plummet
.

12
. Robert Salonga, “San Jose: Suspects Identified in City’s Latest Shooting Deaths,”
San Jose Mercury News,
December 4, 2013,
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_24648168/san-jose-suspects-identified-citys-latest-shooting-deaths
.

13
. See
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_29737765/san-jose-jailed-suspect-2013-killing-now-charged
.

CHAPTER FIVE

1
. There were 17.3 people per square kilometer in 2010:
Wikipedia,
s.v. “Sanilac County, Michigan,”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanilac_County,_Michigan
(accessed April 4, 2016). Compare to Finland, 17.98 per square kilometer in 2014: “Population Density (People per Sq Km) in Finland,” Trading Economics,
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/finland/population-density-people-per-sq-km-wb-data.html
(accessed April 4, 2016).

2
. “Quick Facts, Sanilac County, Michigan,” United States Census Bureau,
http://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/RHI105210/26151
(accessed April 4, 2016). Compare to demographics of Norway:
Wikipedia,
s.v. “Demographics of Norway,”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Norway#Total_population
(accessed April 13, 2016).

3
. Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, “Michigan Food and Agricultural Systems Profiles,” State of Michigan website,
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mda/County_Food_System_Profiles_292923_7.pdf
(accessed April 4, 2016), and
https://www.michigan.gov/documents/mda/Regional_Food_System_Profiles_292928_7.pdf
.

4
. Kate McGill,
The Beginnings of Marlette.

5
. Ibid.

6
. George Monbiot, “Rewilding Our Children,” website of George Monbiot, April 16, 2012,
http://www.monbiot.com/2012/04/16/2125/
.

7
. McGill,
The Beginnings of Marlette.

8
. “2 in Airboat Report Being Targeted by Duck Hunter,” WNEM, November 5, 2013,
http://www.wnem.com/story/23881130/2-in-airboat-report-being-targeted-by-duck-hunter
.

9
. The Associated Press, “Teen Shoots Self in Foot While Hunting in Michigan,”
Monroe News,
November 29, 2013,
http://www.monroenews.com/article/20131129/NEWS/311299907
.

10
. “Boy, 12, Accidentally Shot in Hand,”
Sanilac County News,
March 19, 2014,
http://sanilaccountynews.mihomepaper.com/news/2014–03–19/News/Boy_12_accidentally_shot_in_hand.html
.

11
. Brad Devereaux, “Update: Marlette Elementary Student Shot, Killed at Sleepover Identified,”
Michigan Live,
December 2, 2013,
http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2013/12/sheriff_12-year-old_shot_kille.html
.

12
. Devereaux, “Update.”

13
. G. A. Jackman et al., “Seeing Is Believing: What Do Boys Do When They Find a Real Gun?”
Pediatrics
107 (2001): 1247,
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/107/6/1247.abstract
.

14
. Michael Luo and Mike McIntire, “Children and Guns: The Hidden Toll,”
New York Times,
September 29, 2013,
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/us/children-and-guns-the-hidden-toll.html?pagewanted=all
.

15
. Luo and McIntire, “Children and Guns.”

16
. “Gun Homicides and Gun Ownership by Country,”
Washington Post,
December 17, 2012,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/nation/gun-homicides-ownership/table/
.

17
. Linda L. Dahlberg et al., “Guns in the Home and Risk of a Violent Death in the Home: Findings from a National Study,”
American Journal of Epidemiology
160, no. 10 (2004): 929–936,
https://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/160/10/929.full
; Andrew Seamen, “Gun Access Tied to Greater Suicide, Murder Risk: Study,” Reuters, January 20, 2014,
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-gun-suicide-idUSBREA0J1G920140120
.

18
. Michael Luo, “NRA Stymies Firearms Research, Scientists Say,”
New York Times,
January 26, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/us/26guns.html?_r=0
.

19
. Sam Stein, “The Congressman Who Restricted Gun Violence Research Has Regrets,”
Huffington Post,
October 6, 2015,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jay-dickey-gun-violence-research-amendment_us_561333d7e4b022a4ce5f45bf
.

20
. Ibid.

21
. Luo, “NRA Stymies Firearms Research.”

22
. Vivek Murthy, Twitter, October 16, 2012,
https://twitter.com/vivek_murthy/status/258393687871074304
.

23
. Zoë Carpenter, “Why the NRA Is Blocking Obama’s Surgeon General Nominee,”
The Nation,
March 18, 2014,
http://www.thenation.com/article/why-nra-blocking-obamas-surgeon-general-nominee/
.

24
. Mark A. Schuster et al., “Firearm Storage Patterns in US Homes with Children,”
American Journal of Public Health
90, no. 4 (2000): 589–594, reprinted on RAND Corporation website,
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/reprints/2005/RAND_RP890.pdf
.

25
. F. Baxley and M. Miller, “Parental Misperceptions About Children and Firearms,”
Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
160, no. 5 (May 2006): 542–547.

26
. Catherine A. Okoro et al., “Prevalence of Household Firearms and Firearm-Storage Practices in the 50 States and the District of Columbia: Findings from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2002,”
Pediatrics
116, no. 3 (September 2005),
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/116/3/e370
.

27
. U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Department of Education,
The Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative: Implications for the Prevention of School Attacks in the United States,
July 2004,
http://www2.ed.gov/admins/lead/safety/preventingattacksreport.pdf
, 27.

28
. Peter Cummings et al., “State Gun Safe Storage Laws and Child Mortality Due to Firearms,”
Journal of the American Medical Association
278: 1084–1086.

29
. David C. Grossman et al., “Gun Storage Practices and Risk of Youth Suicide and Unintentional Firearm Injuries,”
Journal of the American Medical Association
293 (2005): 707, 711–713.

30
. Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, “Innocents Lost: A Year of Unintentional Child Gun Deaths,” Everytown for Gun Safety website, June 2014,
http://everytownresearch.org/documents/2015/04/innocents-lost.pdf
, 12.

31
. A. L. Kellerman, “Injuries and Deaths Due to Firearms in the Home,”
Journal of Trauma, Injury, Infection and Critical Care
45, no. 2 (August 1998): 263–267.

32
. “‘Someone Has to Answer for It’: Sheriff Seeks Charges Against Resident Where Boy Was Killed,”
The County Press,
December 11, 2013,
http://thecountypress.mihomepaper.com/news/2013-12-11/News/Someone_has_to_answer_for_it_Sheriff_seeks_charges.html
.

33
. Eric Levine, “Dad, Son Charged in Fatal Shooting,”
Sanilac County News,
February 19, 2014,
http://sanilaccountynews.mihomepaper.com/news/2014-02-19/Front_Page/Dad_son_charged_in_fatal_shooting.html
.

34
. Brad Devereaux, “Michigan Boy, 12, Gets ‘Intensive’ Probation in Shooting Death of 11-Year-Old Friend at Sleepover,”
Michigan Live,
May 7, 2014,
http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2014/05/michigan_boy_placed_in_intensi.html
.

35
. Brad Devereaux, “Father of 12-Year-Old Michigan Boy Who Killed Friend at Sleepover Gets Year in Jail,”
Michigan Live,
June 20, 2014,
http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2014/06/father_of_boy_who_fatally_shot.html
.

36
. “Father, Son Sued in Fatal Shooting,”
Sanilac County News,
May 27, 2015,
http://sanilaccountynews.mihomepaper.com/news/2015-05-27/Front_Page/Father_son_sued_in_fatal_shooting.html
.

37
. Quoted in Stephen P. Teret and Patti L. Culross, “Product-Oriented Approaches to Reducing Youth Gun Violence,”
The Future of Children
12, no. 2 (2002): 119–131, quote on page 123,
http://www.kean.edu/~jkeil/Welcome_files/Youth%20Gun.pdf
.