Increase In Accidental Deaths Follows Spike In Gun Sales, Study Finds

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Thu, 12/07/2017 - 2:48pm

After 26 children and educators were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 and President Barack Obama talked about increasing gun control, Americans bought more guns. But instead of offering protection, at least in some cases, the sales increased the chances that people would be accidentally shot and killed, according to a study published Thursday in Science magazine.

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