A bit surprised to see this one got going again after such a long pause.
Plawsworth,
As you seem to be real interested in this topic I'll try to dig up the stats on the numbers of shootings involving young childeren in the US.
Note: I said young children, not minors in their teens involved in gangs or other planned criminal activitys. Outlaw street gangs often in the country use underage teens as "runners" for their illegal activitys. If caught they most often don't go to jail as a adult would for the same criminal activitys, and if they do the time handed down by the courts is a fraction of what a adult would get.
True accidants are extremely rare, such as a child shooting a playmate with daddys revolver that the child thought was a toy, or a wife shooting a child or husband thinking them to be a intruder. Far more people are killed by lightning than in those types of gun accidants. But as I said I'll see what real facts I can come up with.
This may take some time.
BE
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