"KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A teenage boy has died from an apparently accidental shooting in the Northland. Police sources tell FOX 4 the shooting happened on Monday night inside a home near North Flora and Northeast 80th Street."
Time to Celebrate, Celebrate. Another gun kills another kid.
And a little perspective...
In a country of over 320,000,000 million people......with over 357,000,000 million guns in private hands......
How many accidental deaths by gun were there in 2013.....when there were 320,000,000 million guns in private hands....
505
And the rest of the accidental deaths in this country....
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf
Here are the stats on some common types of death....it would be better to start a crusade to teach people how to walk upright...and save them from falling deaths...you would save more lives.....
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf
guns, drowning and poisoning....
If you cared about people....you would push to ban the following...
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf
Cars, Accidental deaths 2013......
35,369
Poisons...accidental deaths 2013...
.38,851
Alcohol...accidental deaths 2013..
.29,001
gravity....accidental falling deaths 2013...
30,208
Accidental drowning
.....3,391
Accidental exposure to smoke, fire and flames
.....2,760
Accidental gun deaths 2013......505
Accidental gun deaths of children under 14 in 2013....
Under 1 year old: 3
1-4 years old: 27
5-14 years old: 39
Total: 69 ( in a country of 320 million people)
Gun Suicide: 21,175
Non gun suicide: 19,974
2012...
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr63/nvsr63_09.pdf
Then by year accidental gun deaths going down according to CDC final statistics table 10 from 2010-2013...
2010...606
2011...591
2012...548
2013...505
So...accidental gun deaths have been coming down as more people own and carry guns for self defense....now 12.8 million people actually carry guns for self defense......on their person, and the accidental gun death rate is going down, not up....