Today's Dead Americans

I haven't posted much lately on how stoopid we are about guns, so I'm playing a little catch-up here:

Lexington KY: 

Police in Cumberland County are investigating after a five-year-old boy playing with a rifle accidentally shot and killed his two-year-old sister.

The incident happened at about 1 p.m. CST at a home on Lawson's Bottom Road. Police say the five-year-old was playing with a .22 caliber rifle when it went off an hit his sister. The child was transported to the Cumberland County Hospital where she was later pronounced dead by the Cumberland County coroner.

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Nashville TN:

A 4-year-old boy grabbed a loaded gun at a family cookout and accidentally shot and killed the wife of a sheriff's deputy, authorities said on Monday.

The shooting Saturday evening was inside the Lebanon home of Wilson County Deputy Daniel Fanning.

Fanning was showing his weapons to a relative in a bedroom when the toddler came in and picked up a loaded gun on the bed, officials said. The weapon discharged as soon as the child picked it up, hitting 48-year-old Josephine Fanning, said Wilson County Sheriff Robert Bryan.

Josephine Fanning was pronounced dead at the scene. The child was not related to her or her husband.

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Oregon City OR:

A 9-year-old girl who was shot in the head around 5 p.m. Sunday afternoon in Oregon City died shortly after, according to Oregon City Police.

Police say the initial report was that the mother's boyfriend was cleaning a handgun inside the house when it accidentally discharged. The bullet shot through the wall of the house, located near 12th and Division streets.

Police found the girl in the backyard upon their arrival where she had been playing, reports said.

A LifeFlight helicopter transported the child to Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, where she was pronounced dead shortly after her arrival.

Fun With Numbers:
Per CDC, in 2011 there were 14,675 reported accidental shootings in the USA.

40 every day - and that's just the shit that happens by accident, and that's just the ones that require a visit to the hospital, and it's just the accidents that get reported as accidents.

Total Non-Fatal gunshot wounds of all kinds per year = 200,000 (more than 500 every day)

The Univ of Penn study from a few years back found that while the cost of Medical Care was around $17,000 per gunshot injury, the total lifetime cost beyond the medical expense (business productivity, personal income and earnings, etc) jumps up into the Billions - over $100 Billion every year, with about half of the tab being picked by taxpayers.

So here's the thing for you "conservatives":  if you just can't get with any kind of Gun Control because Freedom!!! - you get to shut the fuck up about what a clear-eyed-capitalist, taxation-is-theft, libertarian-super-genius you are.  You ain't shit.