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Toddlers Shooting Parents (surprisingly common)

This is the third toddler shooting that I've written about recently.

 

A three year old Albuquerque NM boy shot and wounded both his parents with his pregnant mothers loaded hand gun last Saturday.  His two year old sister was uninjured.  Below are recent articles concerning guns and American toddlers.

 

Three People Shot In One Week By Toddlers

 

More Americans Shot By Toddlers Than Terrorists

 

Two Year Old Shoots Florida Mother To Death (a state that fines doctors for telling mothers to lock up their guns).

 

100 Children Killed by Gunfire Since Newtown (June 2014)

 

America has about ten times the rate of gunfire death than the rest of the industrialized world.

 

Guns kill more infants & toddlers than police officers in the line of duty.

 

A gun in the home increases the risk of suicide by 3 to 5 times, homicide by 3 times, and accidental death by 400 percent.

 

Since 1963, three times as many American children and teens have been shot dead than soldiers killed abroad - in 2010, five times more children and teens were shot dead than soldiers killed in Iraq and Afgghanistan.

 

Gun violence kills more black youth (from one to nineteen years old) every year except for car accidents.  Below are stunning graphs that demonstrate these facts (courtesy of ScienceBlogs.com (the pump handle)

 

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