More Americans have been killed by toddlers this year than by terrorists. All hail the 2nd Amendment.

Courtesy of Opposing Views:  

Listed below are the 11 gun fatalities I found where a preschooler pulled the trigger (from Jan. 1 to June 9, 2013). 

Jan. 10: 6-year-old playmate shoots and kills 4-year-old Trinity Ross, Kansas City, Kan. 

Feb. 11: 4-year-old Joshua Johnson shot, killed self, Memphis, Tenn. 

Feb. 24: 4-year-old Jaiden Pratt died after shooting himself in the stomach while his father slept, Houston, Texas. 

March 30: 4-year-old Rahquel Carr shot and killed either by 6-year-old brother or another young playmate, Miami, Fla. 

April 6: Josephine Fanning, 48, shot and killed by 4-year-old boy at BBQ, Wilson County, Tenn. 

April 8: 4-year-old shot and killed 6-year-old friend Brandon Holt, Toms River, N.J. 

April 9: 3-year-old is killed after he finds a pink gun that he thinks is a toy, Greenville, S.C. 

April 30: 2-year-old Caroline Sparks killed by her 5-year-old brother with his Cricket “My First Rifle” marketed to kids, Cumberland County, Ky. 

May 1: 3-year-old Darrien Nez shot himself in the face and died after finding his grandmother’s gun, Yuma, Ariz. 

May 7: 3-year-old Jadarrius Speights fatally shot himself with his uncle’s gun, Tampa, Fla. 

June 7: 4-year-old fatally shot his father, Green Beret Justin Thomas, Prescott Valley, Ariz. 

At least 10 more tots have shot but not killed themselves or someone else this year. In the first three cases, the shooter was only two years old. 

While this analysis focuses on children, another, equally accurate, headline could read: “U.S. Gun Culture Kills More Americans Than Terrorists Worldwide.” In 2010, 13,186 people died in terrorist attacks worldwide, while 31,672 people were killed with firearms in America alone, reports CNN’s Samuel Burke. 

Of course as we know while this holocaust has been taking place at the hands of the pre-school set, the actual terrorists have only managed to take out five Americans this year.

Yet at virtually every airport in the country we are subjected to a humiliating search of our person for fear we are a terrorist, cameras track our every move to make sure we pose no danger, and at sporting events and celebrations all over the country we see a huge police presence put in place to address a potential terrorist attack, while the REAL threats to our safety are wheeled about in strollers, tended to like royalty by sycophantic adults, all while waiting for an opportunity to reign death and destruction on an unsuspecting populace.

That description may seem a little over the top, but imagine how we would be reacting if the Chinese had murdered 11 Americans this year, or the Iranians, or the Saudi Nationals. We would have introduced profiling and never thought twice about it.

Yet the toddlers of America walk freely among us as if they were....harmless.

You know I guess, if we really thought about it, there IS a way to actually render them harmless. Of course THAT would also save tens of thousands of American lives at the hands of adults as well, and we certainly can't have that.

Can we?

P.S. If you doubt any of these statistics, you can visit the link at the top and there you will find citations for all of them.