This Is the Harsh Reality of Unintentional Shootings Involving Children

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https://archive.is/20250331205256/https://townhall.com/tipsheet/tomknighton/2025/03/31/this-is-the-harsh-reality-of-unintentional-shootings-involving-children-n2654749

 

[StevieP]

from:

Unintentional Firearm Injury Deaths Among Children and...

This report describes unintentional firearm injury deaths among children and adolescents.

www.cdc.gov

"Data recorded during 2003–2021 by the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) from 49 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico were used to characterize unintentional firearm injury deaths of U.S. infants, children, and adolescents aged 0–17 years (referred to as children in this report). NVDRS identified 1,262 unintentional firearm injury deaths among children aged 0–17 years: the largest percentage (33%) of these deaths were among children aged 11–15 years, followed by 29% among those aged 0–5 years, 24% among those aged 16–17 years, and 14% among persons aged 6–10 years. "

twelve hundred and sixty two. in eighteen years. in a country with three hundred fifty million people and just as many, if not more guns. That's as close to statistical zero as you could get.

 

[FPrice]

from:

Unintentional Firearm Injury Deaths Among Children and...

This report describes unintentional firearm injury deaths among children and adolescents.

www.cdc.gov

twelve hundred and sixty two. in eighteen years. in a country with three hundred fifty million people and just as many, if not more guns. That's as close to statistical zero as you could get.

It's impact is not supposed to be the statistical aspect, it's the emotional tug on the heart.

I wonder how many children in the same age group died from unintentional car crashes? Or other forms of murder by their parents?

 

[Admin]

They dont give a F about kids. This is yet another typical hit piece on the 2nd.

 

[StevieP]

They dont give a F about kids. This is yet another typical hit piece on the 2nd.

actually it's not.

"So we had parents leaving kids unattended while getting hammered – no, I have no idea why they were in a car drinking when there was a perfectly good apartment available for the purposes – and leaving a gun also unattended.
It's a recipe for disaster.


While many gun control advocate use these instances to justify various anti-gun measures, such as mandatory gun storage laws, the truth of the matter is that parents who would leave a gun just sitting in a purse with kids running around and no adult supervision just so they could drink is probably not a parent that is going to actually follow the relevant gun control laws in their state.
This case is rather extreme, admittedly, but I've seen far too many reports of these unintentional shootings involving children, and they almost universally include kids doing things they shouldn't be doing and a lack of adult supervision or responsibility.

And contrary to what many think, you just can't mandate that sort of thing.
Sure, you can dictate that guns must be locked up when not in use, but that sort of thing only comes into play following a tragedy like this one. What's more, you can prosecute people without it, as we've seen in this case and the prosecution of parents over mass shootings such as the Oxford shooting in Michigan or the Appalachee shooting in Georgia.
Instead, you need to teach responsibility and the ramifications of people's actions first and foremost.
Unfortunately, every effort made to educate people gets anti-gun commentary about how those pushing for that sort of thing just want to normalize guns and indoctrinate people into being gun owners, as if that's a terrible thing in and of itself.
Yet, until we do it, we'll keep seeing these sorts of things.
They're rare, but they're tragic, and they don't have to happen. You're just not going to stop them with a new law."

 

[Admin]

actually it's not.

"So we had parents leaving kids unattended while getting hammered – no, I have no idea why they were in a car drinking when there was a perfectly good apartment available for the purposes – and leaving a gun also unattended.
It's a recipe for disaster.

Yes, more education will fix this.

 

[namedpipes]

actually it's not.

"So we had parents leaving kids unattended while getting hammered – no, I have no idea why they were in a car drinking when there was a perfectly good apartment available for the purposes – and leaving a gun also unattended.
It's a recipe for disaster.


While many gun control advocate use these instances to justify various anti-gun measures, such as mandatory gun storage laws, the truth of the matter is that parents who would leave a gun just sitting in a purse with kids running around and no adult supervision just so they could drink is probably not a parent that is going to actually follow the relevant gun control laws in their state.
This case is rather extreme, admittedly, but I've seen far too many reports of these unintentional shootings involving children, and they almost universally include kids doing things they shouldn't be doing and a lack of adult supervision or responsibility.

And contrary to what many think, you just can't mandate that sort of thing.
Sure, you can dictate that guns must be locked up when not in use, but that sort of thing only comes into play following a tragedy like this one. What's more, you can prosecute people without it, as we've seen in this case and the prosecution of parents over mass shootings such as the Oxford shooting in Michigan or the Appalachee shooting in Georgia.
Instead, you need to teach responsibility and the ramifications of people's actions first and foremost.
Unfortunately, every effort made to educate people gets anti-gun commentary about how those pushing for that sort of thing just want to normalize guns and indoctrinate people into being gun owners, as if that's a terrible thing in and of itself.
Yet, until we do it, we'll keep seeing these sorts of things.
They're rare, but they're tragic, and they don't have to happen. You're just not going to stop them with a new law."

A protective law only translates into protection if the public is educated, able to comply and chooses to do so.

A drunken parent is making a conscious choice to endanger their child.

A negligent dad that leaves a loaded gat in the nursery because of COURSE the kid can't pull the 72 lbs trigger of a Mass compliance revolver is placing his child in mortal danger.

An overly trusting parent that knows HIS kid will never abuse that trust by sneaking out his dad's AR to shoot squirrels but "oops" kills his bud from down the block by accident. He's also setting the scene for a tragedy.

You cannot fix STUPID with legislation.

Drunken, negligent and trusting parents are problems that will never, and CAN never be solved by passing another law.

Try solving the problem by educating the public (parents, children, teachers, cops, everyone!) of safe and responsible handling and use of firearms.

And guess what. It STILL won't prevent tragedies from happening. Hopefully fewer, though.

Imagine that. Eddie Eagle might have been on to something.

 

[Dennis in MA]

from:

Unintentional Firearm Injury Deaths Among Children and...

This report describes unintentional firearm injury deaths among children and adolescents.

www.cdc.gov

twelve hundred and sixty two. in eighteen years. in a country with three hundred fifty million people and just as many, if not more guns. That's as close to statistical zero as you could get.

. . . .justonelife. . . .

 

[Davidk]

They want to protect kids and have abortions?????