Gordon Clay here. Leave it to a California school to disprove the NRA's claim that guns don't kill people, people do.

It happened on Tuesday. A gun in a student's backpack went off accidentily, wounding two teenagers in a suburban Los Angeles high school of 3,100 students. It had perfect aim, shooting a girl in the head and a boy in the shoulder with one bullet. Both are said to be in critical condition.

According to the CDC, the rate of firearm deaths among children under age 15 is almost 12 times higher in the United States than in 25 other industrialized countries combined.

When researchers studied the 30,000 accidental gun deaths of Americans of all ages, they found that preschoolers aged 0-4 were 17 times more likely to die from a gun accident in the 4 states with the most guns versus the 4 states with the least guns. Likewise, school kids aged 5-14 were over 13 times more at risk of accidental firearm death in the states with high gun ownership rates.

More than 11 million homes with 22 million children ages 18 and under had at least one firearm. But only 39% of these families keep their firearms locked, unloaded, and separate from ammunition. 43% of these homes reported keeping one or more firearms in an unlocked place and without a trigger lock. Nine percent keep their guns loaded as well as unlocked.

Most guns involved in self-inflicted and unintentional firearm injuries (that is, in suicides and accidents) came either from the victim's home or the home of a friend or relative.

The simple fact is that nobody pointed the gun or pulled the trigger. The gun did it. Think about that, NRA.