On 16 December 2015 the Facebook page "Go Left Forever" published the above-reproduced meme holding that in 2015, toddlers were responsible for the deaths of more Americans than "foreign terrorists." The claim appeared widely in various forms of media, and its primary source being a 14 October 2015 Washington Post "Wonkblog" article that culled statistics from a manual search of news reports.
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 ... But cases like this happen a lot more frequently than you might think. After spending a few hours sifting through news reports, I've found at least 43 instances this year of somebody being shot by a toddler 3 or younger. In 31 of those 43 cases, a toddler found a gun and shot himself or herself.
