Sarasota Mother Shot Her Daughter, 1, Then Turned Gun on Herself

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81. You've got quite a "problem," especially if you try dating one of those 17 year old "adults."

If you stop calling 15-18 yr olds kids, that will bring down the number of kids shot. But in the legal and real world, 15, 16 and 17 year olds are kids. And that age group of kids make up the majority of children shot. As your Michigan U article notes (and again, it is over 10 years old since the NRA killed research about gun violence in the late 1990s), in 1999, the stats for childhood gun deaths were as follows:

3,385 children and youth ages 0-19 years were killed with a gun. This includes homicides, suicides, and unintentional injuries.
This is equivalent to about 9 deaths per day, a figure commonly used by journalists.
The 3,385 firearms-related deaths for age group 0-19 years breaks down to:
214 unintentional
1,078 suicides
1,990 homicides
83 for which the intent could not be determined
20 due to legal intervention

Of the total firearms-related deaths:
73 were of children under five years old
416 were children 5-14 years old
2,896 were 15-19 years old
http://www.med.umich.edu/yourchild/topics/guns.htm

The child gun suicide statistic is very real to me. I knew a girl in back in high school who shot herself in her bedroom with her family's gun. High Schoolers often can't see past tomorrow, and a breakup with a boyfriend can be deadly when the means to act on a suicidal thought is readily available.

And yes, the NRA has killed CDC gun violence research. http://www.businessinsider.com/cdc-nra-kills-gun-violence-research-2013-1