The NRA is buying votes with blood money. They repeat the claim, denied by researchers, that 12 children die from gun violence each day. Let's work to get guns registered. In 1997, the last year for which data are available, only 142 children under 15 years of age died in gun accidents, and the total number of gun-related deaths for this age group was 642.
More children die each year in accidents involving bikes, space heaters or drownings.
The members, whose organization is not connected to the National Rifle Association, insist that better parenting is the key to curbing violence. Thousands of children die annually in gun accidents. Gun accidents involving children are actually at record lows, although you wouldn't know it from listening to the mainstream media. In 1997, the last year for which data are available, only 142 children under 15 years of age died in gun accidents, and the total number of gun-related deaths for this age group was 642. More children die each year in accidents involving bikes, space heaters or drownings.