PTT - I suggest you read my post again as you appear to be under the mistaken belief that the 173 figure for children under five refers to UK figures - it in fact refers to US children under five years of age in 2008 and 2009. In the UK for the last 5 years at least I have not heard of a single shooting death of a child of under five. As far as the 120000 figure is concerned it is quite feasable as in an average year 23000 die from gunshot wounds in the USA.