This map tracks every publicly reported incident this year alone where a person aged 17 or under unintentionally killed or injured someone with a gun.
“HE WAS killed minutes after drop-off. He had been happy and excited. He was invited to a pool birthday party the following day, and he couldn’t wait for Saturday to arrive. Only he never lived another Saturday.
“The next time any of us saw him, he was lying in a casket at a funeral home, his face untouched, still perfect, as though he were sleeping. He looked like he might wake up. But of course he didn’t.”
Marie-Claude Duytschaever still remembers the day when her six-year-old grandson, Noah, was gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary school. This year’s anniversary, three years to the day, is particularly difficult, given the shocking figures coming out of the US.
A staggering 554 children under the age of 12 have died from a gun, both intentional and accidental, since a bloodthirsty Adam Lanza stormed the school at Sandy Hook and fired 154 shots from his Bushmaster .223-caliber rifle, killing 20 children and six staff members, according to an NBC News analysis,
At that rate, a child is shot dead every two days in the United States. And since Sandy Hook, little has changed.
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“Thirteen per cent of households with guns contain at least one firearm that is unlocked and loaded or stored with ammunition.
“In all, more than two million American children live in homes with unsecured guns — and 1.7 million live in homes with guns that are both loaded and unlocked.”
In the time since Sandy Hook, the National Rifle Association has successfully stalled numerous attempts to change America’s murky and muddled gun laws and, in some cases, even repealed existing laws.
Let’s not forget the shocking response by the NRA after the school massacre: “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” said Wayne LaPierre, NRA’s executive vice president
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