And there are 40 million plus households with firearms, and 300 plus million firearms in the country.

The tragedies are so rare, tens out of tens of -millions- of children, as to be notable by that rarity.  Firearms barely register on the list of accidental or deliberate causes of death and injury.

Obviously gun safety is a critical topic and, like sex ed, probably should be taught in a non-political way at age-appropriate levels in schools. That would buttress the existing and ongoing trend of decreasing rates of accidental death and injury.

Sadly, in many of these cases the firearm is not owned by a lawful possessor, like the cases involving a gun hidden at a mother's home by a non-resident criminal boyfriend, without her knowledge. There is little any education campaign or legislation can do in those situations.