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The most recent round of ricin letters has pushed gun control back into the national news, but the past month has offered ample gun news that the national media has ignored. May was the deadliest month for children since Newtown, and in a continuation of a horrific trend, there were shootings by children as young as two years old, of children as young as two. Despite the mounting body count, no one has asked the National Rifle Association why they tell parents not to lock up their guns, or even reported that the NRA tells parents not to lock up their guns.

In its advice to parents, the NRA acknowledges the existence of gun safes, but vaguely recommends they “Store guns so that they are inaccessible to children and other unauthorized users.”

However, in multiple press releases opposing bills that would have required adults with children to lock up their guns, the NRA has taken the official position that locking up guns “render(s) homeowners defenseless and given criminals a clear advantage in home invasions,” and that locking up guns “render(s) firearms useless in self-defense situations.”

You can lock up your guns, then, but only if you want your whole family to be murdered.

Here’s how the NRA’s advice worked out this past month:

"Arizona 3 Year-Old Shoots Self With Gun He Found In Grandmother's Backpack. The court records also claimed that a methamphetamine pipe was found in the same backpack as the gun, and that she had admitted to using the drug the evening before the shooting occurred." http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/03/arizona-3-year-old-fatally-shoot
s-himself-in-face-with-meth-grandmas-gun/

"Florida 6 Year-Old Angela Divin Accidentally Shot By 13 Year-Old Brother; The siblings had been home alone when the teen found the handgun", http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/oakland-park/fl-home-alone-sh
ooting-20130504,0,2869793.story

"3 Year-Old Florida Boy Shoots And Kills Himself With Concealed Carry-Permitted Uncle’s Gun; The uncle, Jeffrey D. Walker, 29, had bought the 9mm gun at a gun shop and had left it in a backpack in a bedroom he shared with the boy", http://www.mediaite.com/online/3-year-old-boy-shoots-and-kills-himself
-with-concealed-carry-permitted-uncles-gun/

"Texas Two Year-Old Shoots Self Dead With Father Just Feet Away; Police said Kinsler Davis found his father's handgun and fired it while his father was looking in a closet in the same bedroom. ...Davis’ next-door neighbor tells NBC 5 that Kinsler’s dad used to be a store firearms manager ", http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Corsicana-Two-Year-Old-Dies-After-Acc
identally-Shooting-Self-in-Head-206733171.html

"Camden, NJ Eleven Year-Old Accidentally Shoots Twelve Year-Old; Police are still trying to figure out whose gun was used in the shooting, and how the boys got access to it.", http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=9097535

"Texas 5 Year-Old Jason Hayley Shot In Head By 8 Year-Old Friend; Officers said two adults and one teenager were also inside the house when the shooting happened at about 11:30 a.m. Saturday.", http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/5-Year-Old-Shot-Saturday-by-Friend-Di
es-207264551.html

"Texas 6 Year-Old Shoots Self In Stomach With 'Hidden' Handgun; According to police the boy found the pistol that was "hidden" by the homeowner and shot himself*", http://www.connectamarillo.com/weather/story.aspx?id=897173#.UazLNonn_
ct.

"Florida 4 Year-Old Accidentally Shoots And Kills 11 Year-Old Jarvan Jackson; 4 year-old Florida boy and his 2 year-old sister were playing with a gun, the older boy was shot in the neck when he tried to take the gun away from the child", http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/article/313246/3/4-year-old-acciden
tally-shoots-11-year-old-

"Tennessee Man Accidentally Shoots 13 Month-Old Daughter In Chest While Stripping Guns; Sayre was allegedly field stripping two Glock pistols at his apartment and showing how their parts are interchangeable when the gun went off, seriously wounding the baby who reportedly was standing with her hands on a coffee table nearby", http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/man-shoots-daughter-stripping-gl
ock-pistols-article-1.1345104#ixzz2VApa7XPS

"Texas boy, 5, shoots his brother, 7, with rusty rifle as they play in the bath; the youngster accidentally fired the .22 caliber weapon into his 7-year-old sibling's lower back", http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/boy-5-shoots-brother-7-bath-a
rticle-1.1339064#ixzz2VApn4MFz

"North Carolina Two Year-Old Shoots Self In Mouth; The boy was alone in his parents' bedroom when picked up an improperly locked .45-caliber pistol, deputies said. The boy put the gun in his mouth while playing with it and pulled the trigger. The boy's parents and siblings were home at the time of the shooting", http://www.wxii12.com/news/local-news/piedmont/2yearold-accidentally-s
hoots-self-in-mouth-in-randolph-county/-/10703612/20211804/-/6qeelf/-/index.html#ixzz2VAqPefM8

"Nevada 12 Year-Old Gage Wilkinson Accidentally Shot And Killed By Friend; Gage and two friends were hanging out at a friend’s house when one of the boys went to retrieve something from another room. Somehow, a gun was fired from that room, hitting Gage in the hallway", http://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/local/6639123-113/gage-dayton-mike-wi
lkinson

"Ten Year-Old Pastor's Daughter Accidentally Shot And Killed By 14 Year-Old; On the day it happened they said that “a male juvenile” had fired the gun. The next day the police department’s crime mapping website referred to the incident as a case of “negligent manslaughter.” The building houses an after school program for about 20 children who attend Crozet and Brownsville Elementary schools", http://www.crozetgazette.com/2013/05/death-of-10-year-old-crozet-girl-
ruled-accidental/

"Florida 12 Year-Old D'Angelo Marte Shot By Accidental Gun Discharge From 11 Year-Old's Backpack; Police said the gun was in a classmate's backpack. When the bag was dropped to the floor, the gun fired", http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Boy-Accidentally-Shot-at-Redland-Mi
ddle-School-in-Homestead-Is-Out-of-Hospital-209069791.html

"Texas 12 Year-Old Keshawn Carter Davis Accidentally Shot And Killed; 'By all accounts, there were no adults present when the shooting occurred. Five children, ages 4, 9 and three 12-year olds, were the only people in the home at the time of the shooting', http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Child-Accidentally-Shot-Killed-in-Gre
enville-Home-Police-208883671.html

"Gun In 3rd Grader’s Backpack Goes Off Outside Elementary School; a Minneapolis third-grader somehow obtained a handgun, carried it to school in his backpack, and accidentally discharged the weapon as classes were letting out", http://www.mediaite.com/online/gun-in-3rd-graders-backpack-goes-off-ou
tside-elementary-school/

"Texas Two Year-Old Trenton Mathis Accidentally Shoots And Kills Himself; two year old Trenton Mathis went into his great-grandfather's room looking for a piece of gum, and instead found a 9mm semiautomatic handgun on the nightstand. He shot himself in the face, fatally", http://www.kltv.com/story/22457699/cps-fought-to-keep-child-who-shot-h
imself-out-of-cherokee-county-home

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