The child escaped adult control and “gained access to a loaded semi-automatic pistol” in the suburbs of Houston, Texas.
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Drowing in the United States. 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 loaded, semi-automatic pistol. Family members heard a gunshot. They rushed into the room and found the 4-year-old girl lying on the floor, unresponsive,” Harris County Sheriff, in suburban Houston, Ed Gonzalez told reporters.
The death of the young victim was pronounced on the spot.
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More guns than people
“This appears to be a tragic new story where a child gained access to a gun and touched 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 home 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 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.