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Many accidental child gun deaths not classified as accidents
Topic: Miscellaneous 5:19 pm EDT, Sep 29, 2013

More than half of 259 accidental firearm deaths of children aged 14 and younger reviewed by the Times were not recorded as accidents, the paper said, mostly because of inconsistencies in way such deaths are classified by authorities.

In nearly all of the child shooting deaths reviewed by the paper, the shooter was male, as were more than 80 percent of the victims — highlighting an "almost magnetic attraction of firearms among boys," the Times said. "Time and again, boys could not resist handling a gun, disregarding repeated warnings by adults and, sometimes, their own sense that they were doing something wrong."

I am going to put this out there. I do NOT want my child in a house with guns

Many accidental child gun deaths not classified as accidents



 
 
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