A 4-year-old girl was accidentally killed by her 3-year-old daughter who grabbed a semi-automatic pistol, thwarting the vigilance of her parents. The United States, where 44,000 firearm deaths were recorded in 2022, has more individual weapons than inhabitants, or about 400 million.
A 3-year-old girl accidentally killed her one-year-old sister in Texas with a semi-automatic pistol on Sunday, US police said, in the latest example of the tragic consequences of the spread of firearms to people. UNITED STATES. The 3-year-old escaped adult control and “gained access to a semi-automatic pistol, loaded. Family members heard a gunshot. They rushed into the room and found the girl 4 years old, on the ground, inert,” Harris County Sheriff, in the suburbs of Houston, Ed Gonzalez told reporters.
44,000 gun deaths in the United States in 2022
The death of the young victim was pronounced on the spot. “This appears to be a tragic new story where a child gained access to a gun and hit someone else,” the police chief added. The United States has more individual weapons than inhabitants, or approximately 400 million: one in three adults owns at least one weapon and almost one in two adults lives in a household where a weapon is found.
More than 44,000 gun deaths were recorded in the United States last year, half of them by suicide and the other half by murder, accident or self-defense, according to the website Gun Violence Archive. And Texas, an immense state of 30 million inhabitants, is also one of those where it is the easiest to obtain a weapon. The carrying of weapons is authorized there without restriction, in the name of the second amendment of the American Constitution.