A new study by Everytown For Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America says 79 children have unintentionally shot someone with a handgun during the first four months of 2015. The shootings have resulted in 24 deaths. In this photo, a Montgomery County Police vehicle drives past a sign of the For Kids We Care day care center, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2006 in Germantown, Maryland, where a 7-year-girl was shot in the arm by a gun that was brought to the day care center by an 8-year-old boy. The boy had the gun in the backpack and was playing with it when it accidentally went off at the For Kids We Care center, police spokesman Derek Baliles said. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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