Toddlers Have Shot at Least 23 People This Year

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/36641-toddlers-have-shot-at-least-23-peothis-year

Last year, a Washington Post analysis found that toddlers were finding guns and shooting people at a rate of about one a week. This year, that pace has accelerated. There have been at least 23 toddler-involved shootings since Jan. 1, compared with 18 over the same period last year.

In the vast majority of cases, the children accidentally shoot themselves. That's happened 18 times this year, and in nine of those cases the children died of their wounds.

Toddlers have shot other people five times this year. Two of those cases were fatal: this week's incident in Milwaukee, and that of a 3-year-old Alabama boy who fatally shot his 9-year-old brother in February.

These numbers represent only a small fraction of gun violence involving children. For instance, the pro-gun-control group Everytown for Gun Safety has found at least 77 instances this year in which a child younger than 18 has accidentally shot someone. And there is a whole different universe of gun violence in which toddlers are shot, intentionally or not, by adults.

[stone space]

1. Ammosexuality and children don't mix. (nt)

[Initech]

2. Thanks NRA!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

3. Perhaps you could share something of your thoughts

You see SecMo has posted this earlier today (http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172191316) and unlike his I've read and enjoyed many of your posts and I'd like to participate here but I;m not looking to just talk to myself.

[Dr. Xavier]

4. Really sad stat...

too bad most politicians are too gutless to do anything about it...

[gejohnston]

5. heroin alone kills 14K people

each year alone. When are we going to ban that?

[Eleanors38]

6. "Pace has accelerated:" 18 to 23. In one year.