Where do statistics come from?

WFAA in Dallas reports

<blockquote>"DALLAS - A 14-year-old girl died Friday afternoon after she was shot at a home in the 2400 block of Britton Drive in Dallas.

After receiving a 911 call, authorities said they arrived at the residence to find five siblings - ages eight, 10, 13, and 15 - at the location. The victim was found shot in the back room of the house. The boy claimed a rifle hanging on the wall in the room fell to the ground, fatally shooting the teen.

The victim was taken to Methodist Hospital, where she later was pronounced dead.

Police said the 15-year-old boy was the only other sibling in the room at the time of the shooting. While the details of what exactly happened are still unclear, police said the shooting appears to have been accidental but are further investigating."

http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/Brother-may-have-been-shooter-in-accident...

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Ultimately this single incident will join the hundreds or thousands of others that will be quoted by anti-gun, anti-rights organizations, and perhaps they will try to claim that guns just "go off" on their own.

But a reasonable person would probably ask: REALLY?