What scares me most about this are irresponsible gun owners who leave their loaded guns laying around where toddlers can get a hold of it and kill themselves or or their siblings or little friends.
It should scare you more that even more people don’t properly secure their scissors and kitchen knives, swimming pools, and stairways in the home. All of which kill as many, if not more, than carelessly store firearms...
What is it with the lib-tard/gun grabber talking points? Did someone hijack your account?
More kids die from eating their parents medication than from guns.
More kids die in car accidents because of poorly installed car seats.
Statistically insignificant. Of course, it is bad WHEN it happens (and it will ALWAYS happen at some very low level...see the story of the cop who took off his service weapon at home....kid/kids got it and one dead).
The news media blows these incidents WAY out of proportion BECAUSE they are rare. And then the GG's use the hoopla to push ever more onerous and draconian laws.
Personal note, I grew up in farm country. NOBODY had "gun cabinets/safes". There was almost always a loaded rifle stuck in the corner closest to the exit door both at my home and pretty much every other home I had occasion to visit. Number of kid-related incidents......ZERO over at least a forty year time span. On this topic, the NRA is once again correct.....TRAINING WORKS. ALL of us kids were taught from earliest understanding the difference between "toy" and "real" and NEVER to touch "real" unless an adult was present. If we could pick it up, we knew the differnce and how to handle it.
Of course, the anti-gun/scared of guns crowd DOESN'T train their children, so those poor kids are disproportionately likely to mis-handle one. But is that the fault of the gun owner, or the fault of the parent. IMO, the latter applies.