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Children Shooting Children: America's Preventable Tragedies
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"On Wednesday evening, July 29th, three-year-old Dalis Cox of Washington, D.C. died in emergency surgery, of a gunshot wound. The 'assailant' was her seven-year-old brother, who was playing with a loaded gun. Dalis is one of 48 children who have died so far this year from unintentional shootings. In a typical year, over 100 children die this way, and over three-thousand children and teens are shot unintentionally."
"Such stories rarely make national headlines. They are not as 'newsworthy' as mass shootings ... They seldom generate lots of energy for tighter gun control laws. Yet they leave in their wake not only lives barely lived before they are gone but the deep emotional scars on parents -- and other children ..." ... |
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| How many children lives were saved by guns? How many died in swimming pools, in cars? |
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