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Chronicle of agony: Gun accidents kill at least 1 kid every other day
Ryan Foley, Larry Fenn and Nick Penzenstadler, Associated Press and USA TODAY 8:30 a.m. EDT October 14, 2016
A new USA TODAY Network and Associated Press analysis shows children die in gun accidents more often than the government knows. AP, USA TODAY NETWORK
(Photo: Anna Sperber, AP)
Hours earlier, he was a happy 4-year-old who loved Ironman and the Hulk and all the Avengers. Now, as Bryson Mees-Hernandez approached death in a Houston hospital room, his brain swelling through the bullet hole in his face, his mother assured the boy it was OK to die.
“When you are on the other side,” his mother, Crystal Mees, recalls telling him, “you are going to see Mommy cry a lot. It’s not because she’s mad. It’s because she misses you.”
And this: “It’s not your fault.”
But whose fault was it?
We've seen that since Sandy Hook, a child has died from gun shot every other day. We also know the real number is much higher than that.
The nutters step over these dead bodies to opine that this is a small number of deaths compared to the total number of guns in the US.
Question: How many dead children will it take before their deaths matter to the nutters?
Ryan Foley, Larry Fenn and Nick Penzenstadler, Associated Press and USA TODAY 8:30 a.m. EDT October 14, 2016
A new USA TODAY Network and Associated Press analysis shows children die in gun accidents more often than the government knows. AP, USA TODAY NETWORK
(Photo: Anna Sperber, AP)
Hours earlier, he was a happy 4-year-old who loved Ironman and the Hulk and all the Avengers. Now, as Bryson Mees-Hernandez approached death in a Houston hospital room, his brain swelling through the bullet hole in his face, his mother assured the boy it was OK to die.
“When you are on the other side,” his mother, Crystal Mees, recalls telling him, “you are going to see Mommy cry a lot. It’s not because she’s mad. It’s because she misses you.”
And this: “It’s not your fault.”
But whose fault was it?
We've seen that since Sandy Hook, a child has died from gun shot every other day. We also know the real number is much higher than that.
The nutters step over these dead bodies to opine that this is a small number of deaths compared to the total number of guns in the US.
Question: How many dead children will it take before their deaths matter to the nutters?