Dear NRA: Are you really going to tell me that ‘guns don’t kill children; children kill children’?
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/11/dear-nra-are-you-really-going-to-tell-me-that-guns-dont-kill-children-children-kill-children/
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The cover of the recent Childrens Defense Fund report (pdf) on gun violence in the United States carries a single statistic:
The number of children and teens killed by guns in one year would fill 134 classrooms of 20 students each.
Thats just a more dramatic way of stating an already staggering figure 2,694 in 2010. Most of the reports 73 following pages are devoted to restating it. Sometimes, this done to illustrate the chilling frequency of such deaths:
One child or teen died every 3 hours and 15 minutes Seven children and teens died every day, more than 20 every three days Fifty-one children and teens died every week
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The pdf report
http://www.childrensdefense.org/child-research-data-publications/data/protect-children-not-guns-2013.pdf