Indiana has one of the nation’s highest per capita rates of accidental shootings involving children, ranking seventh behind states like Alaska and Louisiana. Over a recent 2½-year span, 40 children were killed and injured across the state. That’s among a set of data analyzed by The Associated Press and the USA TODAY Network in a nationwide report on accidental shootings involving children ages 17 and younger from Jan. 1, 2014, through June 30 of this year _ more than 1,000 incidents in all.
(story from the Associated Press)