The New York Times article on children and gun accidents is amazing. They have several pages of anecdotal stories of kids shooting themselves or each other, and claim they have evidence that accidental shootings are underreported, but steadfastly refuse anyplace in the article to quote the actual statistics. The way the article is written, using deceptive statistical comparisons, it sounds like this is a serious epidemic.
Because the actual number is in the hundreds, regardless of whether the questionable hypothesis they have is true that accidental firearms homicides are underreported, the NYT article never quotes a real number, just says "it is the seventh leading cause of death in children", even though it is like 0.1% of the actual child deaths, which themselves are extremely rare (excluding gang warfare, if you count a 17 year old thug killing another one as a 'child')
It is seriously sick that the New York Times could publish such a twisted article.
National Child Mortality Data
36,272 44.1
Perinatal Conditions 14,570 17.7
Congenital Anomalies 6,896 8.4
Neoplasms 2,302 2.8
Respiratory Disease 1,442 1.8
Circulatory Disease 1,666 2.0
Nervous System Disease 1,609 2.0
SIDS 2,453 3.0
Unintentional Injury 11,560 14.0
Motor Vehicle 6,683 8.1
Drowning 1,056 1.3
Fire/Burn 544 0.7
Poisoning 972 1.2
Suffocation/Strangulation 1,263 1.5
Firearm 138 0.2