*31* children have been killed by guns since Newtown, and since 1979 the number might make you cry

Child
Any Gender
Any Location
Any Date
Matched Deaths: 31 or more since Newtown (22 boys, 9 girls)
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2012/12/gun_death_tally_every_american_gun_death_since_newtown_sandy_hook_shooting.html

101 teens (86 boys, 15 girls). 1639 adults (1379 men, 259 women). 1775 total. 29.5 people A DAY.

JUST FROM TODAY-
http://www.wlox.com/story/21130521/police-child-10-killed-in-random-minn-shooting

3 in Utah drug house-http://news.hjnews.com/news/article_5a6bbc2a-7536-11e2-83ae-001a4bcf887a.html

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/02/12/Girl-4-shoots-self-with-familys-gun/UPI-16091360699618/

http://www.minotdailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/573189/Westhope-man-found-dead--another-charged-with-murder.html?nav=5010

http://www.kaplantoday.com/view/full_story/21695208/article-Two--Abbeville-brothers-killed-by-17-year-old-on-Mardi-Gras-morning?instance=home_news_lead

http://www.khou.com/news/local/Neighbor-killed-homeowner-shot-during-home-invasion-in-Alvin-190938971.html
When he drove up, he realized a home invasion was in progress and he took out his gun and started shooting while still behind the wheel, Albert’s sister told KHOU 11 News. The home invaders returned fire.
That is when she said she saw Garcia slump over the steering wheel. She said she and other family members ran to the car and pulled him out to perform CPR but it was too late.

http://www.ydr.com/ci_22576935/2-dead-apparent-murder-suicide-near-u-maryland

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/viewart/20130212/NEWS01/302120014/Autopsy-Officer-s-shot-killed-BB-gun-toting-man-Billings

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/1-dead-4-hurt-in-Vallejo-shooting-4271870.php

and more.

now for the awful part.

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20 Children in Newtown: 116,385 Kids Killed Since 1979
The human cost of our pervasive gun culture: how we have been brainwashed
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/whats-in-name/201212/20-children-in-newtown-116385-kids-killed-1979

When gun advocates tell you we need our guns, cite the number of American children dying every hour in the U.S., the more then 30,000 Americans killed every year, the more than 60,000 injured—the more than 100,000 victims of guns every year, not counting the hundreds of thousands of family members and relatives, whose lives are forever changed by these losses—death, injury, and psychic trauma. Tell gun advocates these losses are not acceptable. When gun advocates tell you gun deaths have decreased, repeat these numbers and tell them these losses are not acceptable. When gun advocates tell you your chance of being shot is about as great as being hit by lightning, tell them we can’t control lightning, but we can control guns, gun magazines, sales of ammunition, and hollow tipped bullets (designed to do the most physical damage—the bullets used to kill the kids in Newton). When gun control advocates tell you guns don’t kill people, people do, they’ve made your point for you. We need gun control for the people using the guns. When gun advocates tell you people are more at risk in gun free zones ask them why murder rates in Europe and Australia (which have strict gun control laws) are so small compared to ours. It’s not gun free zones that cause increased murder rates, it’s increased, easy access to guns. When gun advocates tell you, you are less likely to be shot if you carry a gun, tell them scientific studies prove just the opposite.5 When gun control advocates tell you we need guns to protect our freedom, tell them that guns are actually restricting our rights to life, liberty (freedom from fear), and happiness.

Most gun owners are decent people horrified by all of this. However, there are gun owners who carry a gun because they are terrified of their own projected fears. Despite their argument that you are more likely to be hit by lightening than shot, they are afraid to walk down the street without a gun hidden in their pocket—that’s how afraid they are. What kind of society do we live in that citizens believe that they have to have a gun concealed in their pocket in order to be safe? Perhaps it’s because they grew up in school having to practice lockdown in case a shooter breaks in and wants to shoot them—they grew up in fear of being shot. We are creating a vicious cycle of arming our citizenry that is not doing anything but making it easier for us to kill one another. We are creating a paranoid society that has been brainwashed by the NRA into believing we need to be armed to the teeth. The solution to all our problems is buy, buy, buy guns from them so they can make a billion dollars a year in profits. Gun companies provide 75% of the funding for the NRA. We have been brainwashed into buying the products and the story line of big business. Why have we fallen for this?

If things are going to change, you and I are going to have to do something. It can be something very simple. Adam Green suggests we call the White House and our representatives once a month and tell them we want them to enact common sense gun control legislation. I would add banning gun clips, regulating ammunition sales, and banning hollow tip bullets—like the ones the kids in Newtown were shot with. Whatever you decide to do, get your friends to help too, and keep up the pressure until something gets done. We can no longer think, “As long as it’s not me, I don’t care, I don’t have the time, I didn’t know, etc.” There are no more excuses left.