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Thursday, October 22nd, 2015

Toddlers with Guns Shoot Someone About Once a Week in America: 6 Horrifying Recent Incidents

Author:     Janet Allon
Source:     Alternet (U.S.)
Publication Date:     October 19, 2015
 Link: Toddlers with Guns Shoot Someone About Once a Week in America: 6 Horrifying Recent Incidents
Stephan:   As of today in the U.S. 500 people, mostly black men, have been killed by police since the first of the year, and we are on track for approximately 33,000 Americans to kill other Americans with guns in 2015. But those are only two data points. Here's another that really stopped me in my tracks. How about this: this year, like last year, more toddlers will shoot and kill other Americans than will be killed by terrorists.
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You’d be surprised how often a toddler with a gun accidentally injures or kills someone.

This is flippant language to use about tragic situations, but the scenario of a small child finding a firearm, being curious about it and accidentally shooting someone, is staggeringly common—about once a week by the best count. It’s a scenario the pro-gun forces never talk about, perhaps because it can’t by any stretch be solved by still more guns. According to a recent report in the Washington Post, toddler gun accidents happen on at least a weekly basis, that we know of. Only the most tragic cases make the news, and otherwise, no one is really counting.

Sometimes the toddler is on the receiving end, as in Chicago this past weekend when a 6-year-old killed his 3-year-old brother while playing a game of cops and robbers. Other times, a curious wee tot is the one who fires what he (and it is usually a boy) presumes to be a toy. Two weeks ago, a 2-year-old in South Carolina found a gun […]

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