In the US, Every Week There was shooting Involving Children

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A report in The Washington Post calls every week there was a shooting carried the children in the United States.

Daily was recorded as many as 209 incidents of accidental penembatan by children aged 17 years and under so far this year.

The published data compiled by Everytown, an advocacy group that aims to reduce armed violence in the US.

According to the group, throughout 2015 as many as 43 cases of shootings in the US involve children aged three years or less.

And in 31 cases, a toddler find a gun and shoot themselves, as a result 13 children were killed.

In July, Dalis Cox (3) died after being shot another boy playing with a gun fire.

Seven-year-old child was believed shot Dalis twice. However, police determined the incident as an accident.

Latest tragedy occurred in August, when seoran 21 month old toddler in the city of St. Louis, USA found a pistol in his grandmother's residence.

When playing the pistol, the child accidentally shot his own chest. Although time was taken to hospital, the toddler died.

A week earlier, police in Alabama, said a two-year-old boy accidentally shot his father's head.

The incident occurred when the new boy's mother went to work. When I got home, she found her husband's lifeless at his residence.

Meanwhile, The Washington Post also found at least 12 cases of children shooting other children throughout the year. As a result, two children were killed.

In April, Cleveland police said a boy shot dead a three-year-old sister who was one year old.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 33 169 cases of fatal shootings of victims across the US.

Of the thousands of cases, as many as 505 cases of shootings defined as an accident or inadvertence.

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