Two year old shot mother dead
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Could the kid not have shot to wound rather than kill?
End result: three kids now grow up without a mother, and that child has to live with the knowledge in later life that, even if by accident, he killed his own mother.
I have no idea how people can still stand behind America's liberal gun laws when things like this continue to happen.
Think that is bad? Couple months ago, a 9 year old girl accidentally killed her gun instructor while teaching her how to fire a full automatic uzi. I can't imagine her trauma since at that age she can fully comprehend what she did.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/26/us/arizona-girl-fatal-shooting-accident/
Poor kid. He'll be scarred for life when he finds out what he did.
He will be America's top army crackshot.
Imagine the army banter - when did you score your first kill?
"Popped this Arab dude last week, it was me or him."
"Oh yeah? Well I scored my first kill when I was 2 years old."
Yeah, of course I read that too, was hard to miss as it was plastered all over the news... but as tragic as that also was, it was in a (supposedly) controlled area, as opposed to a puiblic supermarket. The outcome is of course still awful, but imo less negligent and potentially dangerous than this circumstance.
EDIT - Not to mention that it is obviously far more traumatic accidentally shooting your own mother than a stranger...
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It's not even your country. How about we deal with our problems and the yanks can deal with theirs. Last people they would want the opinion of is us Brits.
Switzerland has the 4th highest number of guns per capita yet one of the lowest homicide rates in the world, maybe the problem isn't just the gun.
I would say the obvious but it has been said many times. Other than that I genuinely feel sorry for the family and this kid when he grows up is going to have some heavy burden to take through life.
I wonder how many incidents of assault are prevented by people using guns to defend themselves compared to how many accidents happen.
I wonder how many incidents of assault are prevented by people using guns to defend themselves compared to how many accidents happen.
I think most people suggest it's the gun manufacturers, advocates and users. However, without the guns ...
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No understand what you are saying here.
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Tragic waste of life due to pure stupidity.
What kind of a mother would have a loaded gun in her handbag within easy reach of her own child.
People should go through some sort of assessment before they are allowed guns. Safety should be above their own sense of personal protection.
What kind of a mother would have a loaded gun in her handbag within easy reach of her own child.
People should go through some sort of assessment before they are allowed guns. Safety should be above their own sense of personal protection.
Guns are a catalyst for existing social problems.
If you have high poverty, little social welfare, extreme income inequality & a lack of provision for mental health, easy access to firearms is akin to pouring petrol on a melting pot.
The USA is not a mature enough as a society for firearms.
The biggest irony is to achieve this they have to adopt some aspects of 'European capitalist socialism', something gun advocates hate as much as the idea as taking away their automatic weapons. Ergo there is no real solution, they get to live in a society with one of the highest murder & accidental death rates in the developed world.
Well done /golfclap
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Another example of how guns are completely out of control in the States. It's about time they really woke up to the idea that they really need to start reviewing their laws. We all frown upon the images we see in the middle east of children branding guns so how is the US any different really? Because the have an ancient constitution that permits them to do so? You'd like to think that things have changed since the middle ages yet their modern ideology is set in an age that long since past.
Indeed.
The constitution was written when a majority of the land was lawless - remote towns without any formal governance. It's a relic from a bygone age.
YEAH MANG, WHY CARE ABOUT INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS!
Oh, wait, because that's what normal intelligent people do.
The problem is social and cultural, and Switzerland is almost a model nation in that respect, but the overriding factor is that liberal gun laws in an inherently and historically violent country, especially in the modern day, is a recipe for disaster.
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There's no need to be a dick about it. How many times are we going to talk about America's gun laws and what they should and shouldn't do. Going in circles achieving nothing.
The second part i'm well aware of that's why i mentioned it. If you noticed i didn't put a question mark at the end of the sentence. The point was if other countries have high amount of guns with lower crimes rates the problem isn't the gun per se.
The second part i'm well aware of that's why i mentioned it. If you noticed i didn't put a question mark at the end of the sentence. The point was if other countries have high amount of guns with lower crimes rates the problem isn't the gun per se.
You can say it, I am listening
I agree with this. Having lived in California, and Japan and having gone to Italy, UK, China, Hong Kong, Canada, Mexico, Americans probably have the least sense of "togetherness" as a whole and are the most paranoid and defensive.
A lot of people are paranoid of each other and think someone is going to cap them out of the blue and stockpiling weapons is the only way to protect themselves. That is also true of the US government and police as well.
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