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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Three.

Greetings, welcome.

It is Eric Erickson here.

The phone number is 8779773-7-4-25, should you wish to be on the program.

I want to revisit something I talked about yesterday and add a little more depth to the depth I already gave you.

But first, I want to weave it into this story.

This is from the New York Times today.

Gun deaths rising sharply among children study fines.

Firearm injuries are a leading cause of death among young children and teenagers in the United States.

Let's get into this.

Jovonia McDowell was making dinner one evening when she got a call saying her 14-year-old son,

Joanne, a gentle boy who loved animals, who was so generous that he gave a pair of shoes

to a classmate who was being teased, had been shot. He was visiting a relative's home when another teenager pulled out a gun from a drawer,

where the firearm had been stashed under a t-shirt.

Joanne told him to put it away, but the other teenagers said it wasn't loaded,

not realizing that it was loaded.

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