Child with Gun

Footage of child soldiers is always frightening.  Such barbarity.  Do a search in Google images, ‘arabic child with  gun’ and be appalled.

Now search  images of ‘american child with gun’. Be appalled. ‘But they’re not killing people’, you might say. Of course not, the US is not in a war zone, which makes some of these pictures even scarier.

The Washington Post reported  in relation to the  U.S.: “ At least 265 children under the age of 18 picked up a firearm and accidentally shot themselves or someone else with it in 2015, according to numbers compiled by the gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety……………………………That works out to about five accidental shootings by children each week this year. Of those, 83 ended in death…………..”