5-year-old shoots 2-year-old sister in Kentucky
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Yes and this was tragically true in this case. Name a single one of the rules that several of us have posted which this family paid heed to.
I can't really understand your question, but I do know the child's training, probably from a parent, was lacking somewhere because he pointed his gun at someone. I guess he didn't understand the most basic rule.
So basically we just say, ooops, shit happens, sorry pops, better luck next time. I wonder how the father feels about guns now.
Trying to teach a 5 year old responsible gun use is an oxymoron. 5 yr olds haven't developed enough yet to fully understand total responsibility.
Any family that has small children will always be exposed to this type of tragedy because adults tend to slip up every once and a while (ie. forget to lock up guns) and that's when curious kids get hurt(accidentally stumbles on a gun when the parent had a momentary lapse of responsibility)
Any family that has small children will always be exposed to this type of tragedy because adults tend to slip up every once and a while (ie. forget to lock up guns) and that's when curious kids get hurt(accidentally stumbles on a gun when the parent had a momentary lapse of responsibility)
That's the issue. For the most part most adults follow the rules, but it takes only one lapse in judgement and an innocent small child has a gun in his/her hands and accidentally shoots. It's the gun culture, it'll take centuries and many unfortunate incidents like this before anything gets done.
If the idea of installing an in ground pool is still socially acceptable, even though there's still a chance that it will result in children drowning and dying, then yes, there are such things as calculated risks and acceptable losses.
..... and the death total from drowning is about 1/10 that of guns death for children. It looks to be a lot safer to be near water than to be near guns. That may be why it's more acceptable.
It's really entertaining to see you dance around bringing in all sorts of other factors about unrelated things to deflect attention away from the point you running out of ammo..
"Running out of ammo" my ass. "Death by firearms" wasn't the 16K statistic displayed earlier, it was firearms related injuries (as in, not necessarily deaths, I'm convinced you failed basic English in grade school) compared against other rare diseases and ailments. The reality is, children are exposed to dangerous household items on a regular basis, yet most of them seem to get by. Nothing wrong with teaching kids how to safely handle, operate and respect these inanimate objects, something that clearly wasn't done in the original article. I see a significant amount of children at the ranges I frequent, all of which exhibit exemplary safety records. This isn't a gun issue, it's a shitty parenting issue.
Wanna guess why the liability insurance afforded by my range and the organization I belong to is a fraction of the cost of my car insurance? It's because shooting is a very safe sport.
Meanwhile a 17yo boy cannot decide for himself whether he consents to fucking a 25yo woman or not...
Land of the free!
Land of the free!
I didn't say the 16,000 represented guns deaths. All i said was the pool death were ~1/10 gun deaths. It's not me that need english lessons. So now we have disease stats and insurance rates being presented as arguments to defend gun death numbers and risk. acceptable or otherwise.
Having a gun in a house significantly increases the risk of death for you, your spouse or your kids, period.
http://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2012/12/health-risk-having-gun-home
lmao, that is such an old, irrelevant argument. A 5 yr old pulling a trigger is the same as a 5 yr putting a car in gear? Hardly, that's a stretch.
I suspect they are in they own private kind of jail with the death of their kid by their other kid.
