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Such laws are based on the notion that young children often "find daddy's gun" and accidentally shoot each other.
But in fact only five American children under the age of 10 died of accidents involving handguns in 1997, Lott reports. "People get the impression that kids under 10 are killing each other. In fact this is very rare: three to four per year."
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How many times have guns been used to stop criminals in any given year? Most go unreported. Of those that are reported to the news very few end up in the news. Two weeks ago a friend of mine used her handgun to chase two people out of her house without firing a shot. Had it been "properly stored" she might not be here today. Her story never ended up in print. Defensive use of handguns happens a lot more than you hear about.
Every single shooting of a child ends up in the news. That last child death due to an unsecured gun that I saw in the news was where a toddler shot himself with his drug dealer dad's STOLEN gun while he was passed out on the couch with the gun on the coffee table.
How many are killed by pitchfork welding lunitics, very few. Open that up to lunitics and I bet the number jumps to way above the few that get killed playing with daddy's gun.
Know your kids. Store accordingly.
Jim