Guns Don’t Kill People . . . Toddlers Kill People

by Stuart Shapiro

Alan has regularly posted stories about young children shooting each other over the past few months (for example here).  I hadn’t realized how many there were though until I saw this piece by Stacie Borello.

Listed [in that article] are the 11 gun fatalities I found where a preschooler pulled the trigger (from Jan. 1 to June 9, 2013). Starting with a list of five toddler shooting deaths The Jewish Daily Forward published in early May, I unearthed six additional cases. This tragic, unthinkable event has happened every month, like clock-work.

Eleven . . . that’s almost halfway to Newtown.

By: Stuart Shapiro

Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.