Another tragic example of the consequences of the spread of firearms in the United States. A 3-year-old girl accidentally shot and killed her one-year-old sister Sunday in Texas, U.S. police said. The 3-year-old escaped adult control and "had access to a loaded semi-automatic pistol. Family members heard a gunshot. They rushed into the room and found the 4-year-old girl on the floor, inert," Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez told reporters.
The young victim was pronounced dead at the scene. "This seems to be another tragic story where a child gained access to a gun and touched someone else," the police chief added. The United States has more individual guns than people, about 400 million: one in three adults owns at least one gun and nearly one in two adults lives in a household where there is a gun.
More than 40,000 gun deaths in one year
More than 44,000 gun deaths were recorded in the United States last year, half of them from suicide and the other half from murder, accidents or self-defense, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
And Texas (south), a huge state of 30 million inhabitants, is also one of those where it is easiest to get a gun. The carrying of weapons is permitted without restriction, in the name of the Second Amendment of the US Constitution.
- World
- Texas
- USA
- Arms