Chuck DarwinEvery year, hundreds of children in the United States gain access to loaded guns that are unsecured in closets and nightstand drawers, in backpacks and purses, or just left out in the open.
With tragic regularity, children pick up these unsecured guns and unintentionally shoot themselves or someone else.
Everyone has a role to play in preventing these tragedies.
Although unintentional shootings by children are a heartbreaking part of America’s gun violence epidemic,
no centralized database tracks how many children gain access to loaded guns and harm themselves or someone else.
In 2015, Everytown started such a database, the #NotAnAccident Index, by carefully tracking media reports to explore this crisis in depth.
This report examines 10 years of data on unintentional shootings by children to uncover solutions to this persistent problem.
https://everytownresearch.org/maps/notanaccident/
With tragic regularity, children pick up these unsecured guns and unintentionally shoot themselves or someone else.
Everyone has a role to play in preventing these tragedies.
Although unintentional shootings by children are a heartbreaking part of America’s gun violence epidemic,
no centralized database tracks how many children gain access to loaded guns and harm themselves or someone else.
In 2015, Everytown started such a database, the #NotAnAccident Index, by carefully tracking media reports to explore this crisis in depth.
This report examines 10 years of data on unintentional shootings by children to uncover solutions to this persistent problem.
https://everytownresearch.org/maps/notanaccident/
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