Discussion: 3-Year-Old Cleveland Boy Shoots And Kills 1-Year-Old Brother

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And the beat goes on.

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Will congress ever stop kneeling before the altar of the NRA?

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At this point, I am at a loss for words. Sad … on so many levels.

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Gun owner needs to be charged with manslaughter or homicide.

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Questions:

  1. Is the gun OK?
  2. Where was the good 1 year old with a gun?
  3. A gun was involved; by definition, there is no crime, only FREEDOM™, so why should anyone be charged with a crime over this?
  4. Was the 3 year old standing his ground?
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“It’s a sad day for Cleveland,” [Police Chief] Williams told reporters outside the
home. “This fascination that we have with handguns, not just in this
city but in this country, has to stop. This is a senseless loss of
life.”

Wow… I don’t think I’ve ever heard that kind of blunt talk from a police chief in a major U.S. city. Sing it. From his lips to the ears of Congress.

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And cue lil Wayne LaPierre proclaiming loudly, this wouldn’t have happened if only the one-year old had been in a position to return fire.

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But to put this into context, Mr. Robinson is probably black, and these same sentiments were not spoken after a police officer gunned down a kid in a Cleveland park!

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In a more rational world, it would have taken only one incident like this for making a loaded gun accessible to a child to become a felony regardless of whether anyone actually gets killed.