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shipperxSeriously, dudes, what in the hell does it take to convince certain people that this has become insane and ENTIRELY out of hand?
From the LA Times:
Five-years-old, people.
FIVE!
I know that there are people who have taken to using 'guns' as both their woobie and their mou-mou, but I think it's now officially in the provence of pathologically motivated criminal negligence. Some 'freedumbz-loving' idiot gave a loaded gun to a five year old! The damn thing is even marketed by its manufacturer as "my first gun" (and I am so totally not kidding).
From the LA Times:
A 2-year-old Kentucky girl was accidentally killed by her 5-year-old brother who fired a rifle he had been given as a gift, officials said Wednesday. Cumberland County Coroner Gary L. White said an autopsy of Caroline Starks showed the toddler had died from a single shot from the .22-caliber rifle. The death has been ruled accidental and no charges will be filed, he said in a telephone interview with the Los Angeles Times.
“Most everybody in town is pretty devastated by this,” White said. “Nobody wants to take anyone’s guns away, but you’ve got to keep them out of harm’s way for the kids. It’s a safety issue.”
Five-years-old, people.
FIVE!
I know that there are people who have taken to using 'guns' as both their woobie and their mou-mou, but I think it's now officially in the provence of pathologically motivated criminal negligence. Some 'freedumbz-loving' idiot gave a loaded gun to a five year old! The damn thing is even marketed by its manufacturer as "my first gun" (and I am so totally not kidding).
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Date: 2013-05-02 02:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-02 02:27 pm (UTC)The kid was fucking FIVE!
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Date: 2013-05-02 11:09 pm (UTC)NY State just passed the strictest gun law in US history. Conneticutt recently followed suit.
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Date: 2013-05-02 02:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-02 02:56 pm (UTC)If that poor child had shot his parents rather than his poor baby sister, I'd say it was a Darwin Award.
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Date: 2013-05-02 03:41 pm (UTC)Definitely Criminal negligence. I feel for the 5 year old though....he has no idea really what's going on and this is something that will effect him for teh rest of his life.
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Date: 2013-05-02 05:30 pm (UTC)The child was just a child.
The parents, however, horrify me.
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Date: 2013-05-02 04:43 pm (UTC)You need a license to drive a car, but a five year old can get ahold of a gun.
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Date: 2013-05-02 04:48 pm (UTC)I can't believe no charges have been filed, or that the DCFS hasn't stepped in to remove the boy and any other children.
Oh! And at the risk of offending people, let me just say that anyone who thinks this was God's will and "she's in a better place" is a complete flaming asshole. This was human stupidity and negligence, and if I weren't an atheistic lapsed Jew I would say God has a special hell just waiting for those dumbfuck parents.
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Date: 2013-05-02 05:33 pm (UTC)Dumbfuck parents, indeed.
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Date: 2013-05-02 05:51 pm (UTC)How Bible-thumping and gun-worship got mixed together, I don't know. But they have become so far too commonly.
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Date: 2013-05-02 05:06 pm (UTC)My first thought this morning, when I heard it, was what are the chances that someone will now decide to market bullet proof baby-gros?
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Date: 2013-05-02 05:38 pm (UTC)In some corners it's truly crossed the border into sickness. Guns have become fetishized by a group of increasingly obsessed people. (And, of course, the billionairs who make money off of them...)
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Date: 2013-05-02 05:36 pm (UTC)I will NEVER understand the mentality that says everyone has to be armed. Never.
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Date: 2013-05-02 05:56 pm (UTC)Apparently the sheriff has dismissed it as, and I quote, "one of those crazy accidents." Because when you hand a loaded gun to a five-year-old, him firing it is apparently an accident. Well, at least he's right about the crazy bit. And about it being just one of many.
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Date: 2013-05-02 06:03 pm (UTC)That's no 'accident'. That's criminal negligence (at the very least). It's also unfit parents because, jesus. HE'S FIVE!
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