> In fact, children under 15 are about 40 times more likely to die by swimming pool than by an accidental firearms discharge [0].

You know, it's not really the accidental discharges I'm worried about. It's the mass shootings.

Also, you appear to be misquoting that article. The 40x number is scaled by the number of pools/firearms, and so is saying "an individual firearm is less likely to kill a child than an individual pool" (although firearms are vastly more common than pools).

And, finally, that article uses "86 children killed by accidental firearm discharge in 2000" as its primary metric. The top google hit [0] for "How many children are killed each year by guns?" gives a value of 1,500.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=How+many+children+are+killed...