Another tragic example of the consequences of the spread of firearms to UNITED STATES. A 3-year-old girl accidentally shot and killed her one-year-old older sister in Texas on Sunday, US police said. The 3-year-old escaped adult control and “gained 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 ground, unresponsive,” the sheriff of Harris County, in the suburb of Harris, told reporters. HoustonEd Gonzalez.
The death of the young victim was pronounced on the spot. “This appears to be a tragic new story where a child gained access to a gun and touched someone else,” the police chief added. The United States has more individual weapons than inhabitants, or about 400 million: one in three adults owns at least one weapon and nearly one in two adults lives in a home where there is a weapon.
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 by suicide and the other half by murder, accident or self-defense, according to the site Gun Violence Archive.
And the Texas (south), a huge state of 30 million inhabitants, is also one of those where it is the easiest to obtain a weapon. The carrying of weapons is authorized there without restriction, in the name of the second amendment of the American Constitution.
