People are getting shot by toddlers on a weekly basis this year

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Written by Christopher Ingraham.

of the Washington Post reports that roughly once a week this year, on average, a small child has found a gun, pointed it at himself or someone else, and pulled the trigger.

This week a 2-year-old in South Carolina found a gun in the back seat of the car he was riding in and accidentally shot his grandmother, who was sitting in the passenger seat. This type of thing happens from time to time: A little kid finds a gun, fires it, and hurts or kills himself or someone else. These cases rarely bubble up to the national level except when someone, like a parent, ends up dead.

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