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Weapons ain’t toys people… JFC.
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But a properly trained toddler with a gun could have prevented this.
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Or a properly trained mother without a loaded gun near a curious toddler. I think if more people understood the risks to their children and families by these death sticks, this wouldn’t happen every day.
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I’m not convinced “understanding” has anything to do with any of this. It’s ideology & tribalism.
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I think that every time I hear one of these people firmly state, as if it were self-evidently true, “Guns keep you safe.” It’s as though safety is emitted from the gun like radiation. Pure magical thinking.
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Only a good toddler with a gun…
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I would like to see one of the parents of a child shot w/ a gun that was not secured, in an interview. Now that their child is shot how does this affect their self-image? Do they think people who allow their children to be shot through their negligence be allowed to keep/have children? How will they chronicle this incident in their life - photos, keep newspaper articles, or will they try to forget about it and never mention it again? I just wonder what these creatures are like. They seem to garner an amount of sympathy. In fact they’re accomplices to manslaughter.
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“she’s still responsible for the child’s safety.”
Why should she be? If safety was a consideration, God would have mentioned it when He wrote the Second Amendment.
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That means that there are millions of toddlers that the NRA has yet to reach. They’re slacking.
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Folks go to great lengths to child proof their homes against every possible hazard. Except guns. Guns have no value in self defense scenarios unless they are loaded and readily available. Children are curious and see everything. They also have a lot of free time to go exploring. They will find the gun. Once they do the outcome will be a matter of chance vs. Smith & Wesson.
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Stayed in a hotel this weekend that protected guests from interlopers by rendering the elevator inoperable thereby blocking access to guest floors without a room card key that expired at checkout time. So the card keys became useless to unauthorized persons.
We have the same technology to render guns locked in the hand of an unauthorized user, a child, a thief, a trafficker, an Internet straw purchaser, and it would make these guns worthless and eviscerate the secondary gun market.
The late Bob Ricker, gun industry lawyer turned whistleblower revealed on NPR years ago that gun industry executives talked freely about the 25% of guns that they knew were being obtained by dangerous people from either corrupt licensed gun dealers or on the secondary market, and therefore that without this market share some gunmakers would go bankrupt. The NRA leadership and Congress as presently constituted want no part of such regulation because dollars trump lives, and NRA money trumps sound national gun policy.
It is unconscionable that the patented technology exists to save lives and Congress abdicates its responsibility to serve the public interest for private gain.
Only a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-like national gun regulatory agency can reduce the carnage while protecting real gun rights.
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FU NRA
Guns could be designed to be much more difficult for an unauthorized person to fire. Guns could be designed so that they don’t discharge when dropped. Guns could be designed so that it was much more difficult to mistake a loaded gun for an unloaded gun.
The NRA, on behalf of gun manufacturers, spends a lot of money from those companies to ensure that members of Congress oppose efforts to create safety standards for firearms or to expose gunmakers to liability for the harm caused by guns designed with little concern for accident prevention.
All that the gun manufacturers ask in return is that we blame everything but their products for the 30,000 annual firearm deaths in the US.
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Bad mother, bad decisions.
There is nothing else like this, not stupid hammers or swimming pools, not knives or other sharp objects, nothing.
Guns kill more people intentionally and accidentally than anything else on Earth and yet, they are barely regulated and barely have any laws concerning them.
This is all about the profit and that’s it. Common sense would’ve prevailed long ago if not for one hell of a lobbying group and tons of campaign cash. We are up against some sick puppies, that no matter the bloodshed and death, aren’t fazed in the least.
They have cash registers for brains and dollar signs for eyeballs.
The really sickening part is, that guns would be highly profitable anyways, even with some basic common sense attached to them. But the sleaziest bastards of them all won’t give an inch for fear of losing a nickel and could care less, obviously, about human lives.
The gun industry is truly a heartless group of people.
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Good one!
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The NRA asks: “Is the Gun OK?”
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Yet another installment of the NRA fairytale: How to Keep your Family Safe with Guns.
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