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(CNN) -- It happened in just seconds, by all accounts.
A pistol in the hands of a 4-year-old boy went off Saturday, killing Josephine Fanning, the 48-year-old wife of Wilson County Sheriff's Deputy Daniel Fanning.
The tragedy has shaken the town of Lebanon, Tennessee, a community just east of Nashville beside itself with grief.
Days after the Tennessee shooting, the intersection between children and guns emerged again, this time in Toms River, New Jersey.
A 4-year-old boy shot another boy, age 6, in the head with a .22-caliber rifle Monday night. They were playing in a yard, police said. The boy is alive, in stable condition at a hospital.
As the gunplay persists, lawmakers in Washington wrestled this week with the divisive politics of firearms....
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