Accidental Youth Deaths

* Re “Accidents’ Toll on Children Decried,” June 9: That 250 children die an accidental death each week in the United States is a tragedy. Certainly many of those deaths could and should be prevented. Meanwhile, children across the country wait for organ donations that could save their lives--kidneys, hearts, lungs, livers. The real crime is when an accident happens and needlessly takes the life of a child, and another child dies waiting for an organ.

If we could only reduce the number of children who die in accidents and increase the number of parents who make the choice to donate their child’s organs. Imagine how many lives we’d save then.

KIMBERLY WILLOUGHBY

Fullerton

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The statistics in your article prove what the National Rifle Assn. and other pro-gun groups have been saying for some time; that firearms are not the major cause of death of children.

Children under 10 years of age are over 10 times more likely to drown than be killed by a firearm. Firearms were not even mentioned as a significant cause of accidental death for all children under 20 years of age.

So why the political fuss by the liberals to mandate trigger locks and licensing? Why don’t they admit their agenda is to cause all firearms to be banned?

BOB ROSENBERG

Calabasas