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Wednesday, May 11th, 2016

One Week in April, Four Toddlers Shot and Killed Themselves

Author:     JACK HEALY, JULIE BOSMAN, ALAN BLINDER and JULIE TURKEWITZ
Source:     The New York Times
Publication Date:     MAY 5, 2016
 Link: One Week in April, Four Toddlers Shot and Killed Themselves
Stephan:   There is no other developed nation on earth that has this domestic accidental death of children, by gun shot. It is extraordinary and very revealing of who we are as a people that this level of death is not only tolerated, but barely remarked upon. This story stands out as an outlier.
Zai Deshields, 4, at her home in Stone Mountain, Ga., this week. Last week she pulled a handgun out of a backpack at her grandmother’s home in Arlington, Tex., and shot her uncle in the leg. Credit Melissa Golden/ The New York Times

Zai Deshields, 4, at her home in Stone Mountain, Ga., this week. Last week she pulled a handgun out of a backpack at her grandmother’s home in Arlington, Tex., and shot her uncle in the leg.
Credit Melissa Golden/ The New York Times

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Sha’Quille Kornegay, 2 years old, was buried in a pink coffin, her favorite doll by her side and a tiara strategically placed to hide the self-inflicted gunshot wound to her forehead.

She had been napping in bed with her father, Courtenay Block, late last month when she discovered the 9-millimeter handgun he often kept under his pillow in his Kansas City, Mo., home. It was equipped with a laser sight that lit up like the red lights on […]

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