Beware any statistic that defines children as 18 or less. I'm surprised they didn't use 21 or less. 90% of those "children" died in crime or gang related violence, not by innocently stumbling over a poorly stored firearm.
Sorry.
and most of those children were shot because of dumb parents who don’t know how to put a gun where children don’t just stumble upon them...
Typical. First start talking about the “innocent children” and then throw in a statistic about how many “children” were killed with guns. Don’t tell people that every year fewer children are accidentally killed with guns than die from bicycle accidents. Just make them afraid of guns.
If you want to read statistics of how kids are killed accidentally or intentionally you can purchase a soft cover book from the National Safety Council called “Injury Facts”. It’s about $35. It usually runs one year behind so they can gather the facts and publish them. When I was the safety officer for a large company I would purchase it every year. Here’s their website address www.nsc.org. Accidental gun deaths for kids runs behind swimming pools usually, bicycles, sometimes baseball bats and hotdogs. If you want the facts. Also doctor’s accidentally kill more people every year than guns do.