Kayla Rolland died at 10:29 a.m. of a single gunshot wound to the chest after being rushed to Hurley Medical Center by Emergency Medical Service workers, who said she was in cardiac arrest.

The suspected shooter was a 6-year-old boy who pulled a handgun from his pants pocket and fired one shot, Mount Morris Township Police Chief Eric King said.

The weapon, a .32-caliber handgun, was reported stolen in December, Genesee County Prosecutor Arthur A. Busch said, and it "somehow got in the boy's house," where he lived with his mother.

According to King, the boy was apprehended in a bathroom by the teacher and school principal after he had thrown the gun into a wastebasket.

These have been stories of innocent people who have been killed by a gun. One of the leading arguments in today’s society is the problem with guns. Why is gun-control such a hot-topic? Here are some startling statistics that will show you why this is looked at in such depth.

While the overall gun-related death rate in the United States has fallen in recent years, thereâ€

(The above quotations are compiled in The Economic Costs of Firearm Violence, prepared by Joy Blevins, M.S., M.F.C.C.)

· The average cost of hospitalization for a patient with a firearm injury was found to be $6915 in 1984 (Martin, Hunt and Hulley, 1988), which translates to $19,173 in 1993 dollars. Costs can range up to $500,000 per patient in some centers. (Wintemute and Wright, 1992)

• Holding adults, including parents, criminally liable for allowing minors access to firearms, with mandatory prison sentences of three to ten years and fines up to $10,000.

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