R.I. Senate passes gun safe storage bill

About 4,000 children are shot and killed, and 15,000 children are shot and wounded every year, she said. Society has done all it can to try to prevent children from dying from cancer, and it has passed laws requiring seat belts and airbags to try to prevent children from dying in car crashes, she said. Senator Pamela J. Lauria, the Barrington Democrat who introduced the bill, emphasized that guns are the number one killer of children in the United States. “That bears repeating: not cancer, not motor vehicle accidents, but...