Reaching for trouble (Image: Gilbert Laurie/ Photographer’s Choice RF/Getty)
LOADED guns left where kids can reach them may be contributing to the high level of firearms injuries to children in the US. A study this week reveals the number of such injuries is 30 per cent higher than thought.
Figures gathered from emergency rooms across the US show that around 20,000 children are injured by firearms each year – higher than earlier estimates. A further 900 incidents are fatal, says Saranya Srinivasan, a paediatrician at the Children’s Hospital in Boston and co-author of the study.
The level of gun crime…
