Dear NRA: Are you really going to tell me that ‘guns don’t kill children; children kill children’?

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/11/dear-nra-are-you-really-going-to-tell-me-that-guns-dont-kill-children-children-kill-children/
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The cover of the recent Children’s Defense Fund report (pdf) on gun violence in the United States carries a single statistic:

The number of children and teens killed by guns in one year would fill 134 classrooms of 20 students each.

That’s just a more dramatic way of stating an already staggering figure – 2,694 in 2010. Most of the report’s 73 following pages are devoted to restating it. Sometimes, this done to illustrate the chilling frequency of such deaths:

• One child or teen died every 3 hours and 15 minutes• Seven children and teens died every day, more than 20 every three days• Fifty-one children and teens died every week
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The pdf report
http://www.childrensdefense.org/child-research-data-publications/data/protect-children-not-guns-2013.pdf