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DennisKy - Guns and Dogs

< By comparison, even though the numbers are declining over the last few years of reports, in 1995 there were almost twenty times that many child fatalities from accidental gun use. >

From the second link you posted:

"Gun control groups and pro-control medical researchers often include "children" up to the age of nineteen and in some cases twenty-four, to inflate the number of "child" gun accidents. (This is the only way it can be claimed a child is killed everyday in a gun accident. Compare fatal gun accidents to the number of kids killed while crossing the street.)

"...some fatal gun accidents may actually be the culmination of a history of child abuse, in other words intentional homicides. Dr. Kleck cites a national survey conducted in 1976 (Strauss, M., et. al., Behind Closed Doors: Violence in the American Family, Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, 1981), which found "3% of children had, in the previous year, had guns or knives (the two are combined in the source) actually used on them by their parents, according to the parents' own admissions. Since this translates into about 46,000 such incidents per year, it would not be surprising if a few dozen resulted in a gun death falsely reported as accidental."
http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcgvacci.html

Its more dangerous for a child if you have a bathtub or pool than it is to have a gun in the house.