This is Hear Me Out, I'm your host Celeste Headley. July is the month where the most children

per day are accidentally injured or killed by firearms in this country. But there's not

really a month where these tragedies don't happen. It is all too common that children from

toddlers to adolescents happen upon a gun in their homes and don't fully understand what

they're looking at. Just under half of Americans live in a home with a gun, so put aside your

feelings about gun control for just a moment and let's consider if guns are an inevitability

in our society. How can we keep kids safer in their own homes? Don't you want your child

to know what to do if they find a firearm somewhere it's not supposed to be? That's not

political. It has nothing to do with politics.

Writer and gun rights activist Yehuda Reemer joins us on Hear Me Out in just a moment. Stay

with us.

Welcome back to Hear Me Out, I'm Celeste Headley. Last month 31-year-old Laura Ilg was shot

and killed in her Ohio home. She was 8 months pregnant and the best efforts of doctors

could not save her or her unborn child. The shooter who ended those two lives was Laura's

2-year-old son. He probably did not understand that the thing he was playing with was dangerous.

One can hope that for a few more years at least he won't fully understand what happened

as a result. Firearms are the leading cause of death for American children now. By far.

And last year there were at least 355 unintentional shootings in which a kid pulled trigger without

meaning to. According to data from the nonprofit Every Town For Gun Safety, the month of July

has the highest number of unintentional shootings of or by children per day. Many people think

very young kids are not strong enough to pull a trigger but kids have shot themselves

and others. The best-selling firearms in the US are handguns like Glocks and SIGS HOURS

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