8 January 2017

Mic: A toddler has shot and killed someone every week for the last two years

"Guns don't kill people. Toddlers kill people."

That's the bold — if satirical — message of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, which published a video in October warning Americans of the dangers of toddlers.

Toddlers have shot about one person a week for the past two years and by May, toddlers were behind more U.S. shootings in 2016 than Muslim terrorists were.

The problem speaks to the ubiquity and normalcy of guns in the U.S. and childrens' access to loaded guns, shooting — sometimes fatally — either themselves or others.

Guns can be found in one in three homes with children — around 1.7 million of those children have easy access to loaded guns, which owners failed to lock away. 

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