Discussion: Report: 8-Year-Old Texas Boy Shot By 7-Year-Old Relative

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I smell a sequel: My Second-Grade Cousin Open Carries

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So sad as always to read reports like this. And then we can expect the usual drivel from the NRA about the need of looser gun laws.

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A squirt gun I hope.

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Hey, no one is calling it an “accident” and an adult could face criminal charges.

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Leaders in the Ranking of States on TPM and Raw Story with the most Careless Firearm incidents

Texas - 13
Florida - 11
Pennsylvania - 10
South Carolina - 7
Indiana - 6

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What’s wrong with parents nowadays? Leaving kids in hot cars, leaving weapons laying around unsupervised.

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Another point for Texas?

Sorry, but even in Texas you don’t earn your creds until he’s dead.

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It’s “lying around” but thanks for caring and sharing…

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But only ‘could’. This should not be in question at all.

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…and then you can get off if you can get the judge to believe that he needed killin’.

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It is well past time that we begin to vigorously prosecute and punish the idiot adults who have unsecured pistols and rifles left in easy reach of children. It’s not the kids’ faults, it’s their supposed adult supervisors. If the ammosexuals in the NRA would return to their original mission of promulgating gun safety, we’d have a better world. Naturally, that would require the immediate jailing/commitment of Wayne La Pierre. As that will never, ever happen, more children will be wounded and/or killed by the inaction of irresponsible adults.

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He was standing his ground.

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If a person lets the NRA know his address they will mail invitations forever. No need to reply or join; just let them spend their money on direct mail ads.

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Clearly the solution to incidents like this is MOAR GUNZ

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Imagine if the playing ground had been leveled.

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However, police did note that the adult who was supposed to be supervising the children could face criminal charges, according to the Daily News.

How about the gun owner, if it wasn’t the same person.

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The adult who was to have been supervising them and the person to whom the gun belonged need to go to jail for a good, long time.

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As every one of these incidents should be treated.

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I’m not in favor of jail; but a hefty fine and loss of gun “rights” would make me smile.