Guns don't shoot people... toddlers with guns do

[Wage Slave]

America. A place where..

They debate the best way to address increasing numbers of toddler involved shootings
Climate change is denied and regarded as a commie conspiracy.
Evolution is denied and ditto.
There is legislation to control which toilet transgender people must use.
Being an active member of a bible believing independent church is seen as a virtue by many.
Making sure everyone has healthcare when they need it is seen by many as an injustice and affront to freedom.
It's OK to arm yourself, occupy public property, threaten government officers and even the police as long as you are wearing an expensive cowboy hat.

And

They really believe that the well being of the world depends on American leadership.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Yep, spaying/neutering all (potential) parents would elegantly solve the armed-toddler-problem without the need for additional gun control, or any vaccination for that matter

[Samurai_Jerk]

Y'all is just jealous of our freedom.

[Samurai_Jerk]

[kurogane]

DEA: Mom dies after random shooting on Wisconsin interstate
http://www.chroniclejournal.com/news/wo ... 6e0fe.html

MADISON, Wis. - An Illinois woman has died after being shot during a random drive-by shooting along a Wisconsin interstate while travelling home with her husband and children, federal officials said Tuesday. DEA Spokeswoman Lycky McNastie said that neither of the victim's children were armed at the time of the shooting and are no longer suspects in the case.

Perhaps the tide has turned and this toddler crime wave has finally crested? Anyways, RIP to the victim.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Unarmed toddlers? Highly suspicious...

[Coligny]

Unarmed toddlers? Highly suspicious...

It was a false flagg...

[legion]

Y'all is just jealous of our freedom.

I'm damn jealous of your expensive cowboy hats

[Grumpy Gramps]

Girl, 5, fatally shoots self with grandmother’s gun

Detroit — A 5-year-old girl is dead in Detroit after finding a gun under her grandmother’s pillow and shooting herself with it Wednesday morning, Detroit police said.

Mariah Davis shot herself with her grandmother’s .38 caliber handgun around midnight in a well-kept home in the 19700 block of Oakfield, east of the Southfield Freeway and south of Pembroke on Detroit’s west side. Two other children, a 3-year-old and a 1-year-old, were present at the time but were not harmed.

Mariah was the fourth child shot in her precinct since Easter Sunday, the second to shoot themselves, and the third to die from the injuries.

The grandmother, who was babysitting, was downstairs cooking, and her grandfather was in a third room upstairs watching TV, police said.

Police will submit an investigative report to Wayne County prosecutors, who will then determine whether to charge the grandparents, Assistant Police Chief Steve Dolunt said.

Dolunt added the case — the second in two weeks in which a child accidentally shot themselves — underscores the need to keep unloaded guns away from children.

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Motown is well and truyly fucked.

[kurogane]

That is well and truly sad.

[wagyl]

That is well and truly sad.

Are you referring to the fact that there is a "Buy photo" link on the photograph of the exterior of the "well-kept home?"

[kurogane]

Erp. So much for today's hearfelt moment

Back to the Detroit news:
In subsequent reports the police spokewoman has announced that no charges will be laid against either grandparent due to the difficulty of prosecuting juveniles.

[yanpa]

The blow-by-blow reporting of neighbourhood events and details is riveting.

A woman walked six children to the bus stop at about 7:30 a.m., while a neighbor across the street loaded children into an SUV about 15 minutes later.

There are a number of boarded-up homes on both sides of Oakfield, all the way up from Seven Mile to the south and Pembroke to the north. Across the street from the home, a silver Saturn Vue sat on a cinder block. The next house to the north, a basketball hoop was propped up on a wheel rim and tied to a tree with string.

[yanpa]

Louisiana: girl aged five shoots and kills herself with handgun at home

[Wage Slave]

Looking at that story this one popped up.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/16/us-man-shoots-himself-in-foot-while-adjusting-sock

[kurogane]

Here's an older story that seems to have new legs.

Oscar Pistorius removes prosthetic legs to walk at sentencing hearing
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... ng-hearing

"But he's no toddler!!", you might say....................I say watch the video and decide for yourself.

Personally, the emptiness of his defence only shows that Pistorius doesn't have a leg to stand on. Hopefully this mawkish, macabre display of pity fishing will convince those that still support him to stop stumping for leniency.

[Wage Slave]

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[Grumpy Gramps]

Accidental shootings kill one American child every 48 hours

A child is killed every other day as a direct result of an accidental shooting, whether self-inflicted or at the hands of another child or an adult, new research has found. The analysis supersedes federal statistics, relying on 1,500 news sources.

“October 13, 2016, Waukegan, Illinois, victim, age three, male, killed, accidental shooting, self-inflicted, child involved incident, child picked up and fired gun, child killed self, child shot self with 9mm from father’s room. Rifle in home also confiscated,” a typical entry reads in the raw data collected by Gun Violence Archive, a nonpartisan research group. Data was taken from news reports, using some 1,500 sources, and its third quarter data was released Friday.

For the first 10 months of this year, 804 children, aged 0-11 were killed or injured, as were 750 teenagers, aged 12-17, according to the data.

In all, more than 301 children under 11 were killed, and 503 were injured. A further 150 teens died and 600 were injured.

Findings revealed that deaths and injuries spiked for children under five, with three-year-olds being both the most common shooters and victims among children.

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Scary...

[matsuki]

Not that I'm in favor of everyone packing....but that says more about laziness/carelessness than anything else. It's not exactly a difficult concept to lockup your guns to prevent kids getting to them.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Not that I'm in favor of everyone packing....but that says more about laziness/carelessness than anything else. It's not exactly a difficult concept to lockup your guns to prevent kids getting to them.

You sound like an NRA spokesman.

[wagyl]

If you lock up your gun, how do you get to it in time to defend yourself? Or is the gun for a reason other than self defence?

[Samurai_Jerk]

If you lock up your gun, how do you get to it in time to defend yourself? Or is the gun for a reason other than self defence?

Don't ask logical questions when talking about gun control.

[Coligny]

Not that I'm in favor of everyone packing....but that says more about laziness/carelessness than anything else. It's not exactly a difficult concept to lockup your guns to prevent kids getting to them.

You sound like an NRA spokesman.

So, it's an improvement no ?

[Grumpy Gramps]

Video console death: US boy, 9, 'kills sister, 13, over controller'

A 13-year-old girl in Mississippi has died after allegedly being shot by her nine-year-old brother over a video game, police say.

They said the boy grabbed a gun on Saturday afternoon after his sister would not give up the controller.

He allegedly shot her from behind, and the bullet entered her brain.

A local sheriff announced on Sunday that the teen had died of her injuries in a Memphis hospital. It was unclear how the boy obtained the gun.

It is also unclear what consequences the nine-year-old will face.

"He's just nine," Monroe County Sheriff Cecil Cantrell told the Clarion Ledger.

"I assume he's seen this on video games or TV. I don't know if he knew exactly what this would do. I can't answer that. I do know it's a tragedy."

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When I was nine, our tv had no remocon or else I might have,,,, ahhh we had no guns either...

[wagyl]

When I was nine, our tv had no remocon or else I might have,,,, ahhh we had no guns either...

Maybe the system has changed over time, but one of the factoids trotted out in the gun control debate is that the Swiss have compulsory military reserve status and they all have their weapons (and previously, ammunition) at home, at the ready. Is/was the actual situation different to that?

[Grumpy Gramps]

I think, most Swiss will keep their rifles and ammo out of reach of kids. And definitely not loaded. And from what I know, in Switzerland these rifles are more popular to commit suicide with than to kill someone else.

I am no expert in these things, though.

[legion]

Not exactly country and western

[Grumpy Gramps]

Not exactly country and western

Haha, no matter how much out of tune these beasts are, as phallus symbols they never fail to impress

[Grumpy Gramps]

YouTube gun ban drives bloggers to PornHub

YouTube has banned videos that show people how to manufacture or modify guns and their accessories.

It had already banned videos linked to the sale of guns and accessories.

Many firearms enthusiasts noticed that some of their videos had been removed from the video-sharing website and some had their channels suspended.

Prominent gun video-bloggers said the move was an erosion of US citizens' rights, and some said they would move their content to PornHub instead.

YouTube's policies now prohibit videos that:

• show how to make a firearm, ammunition, high-capacity magazine or homemade silencers
• are designed to sell guns or specific accessories including high-capacity magazines and tools that convert a firearm to automatic fire
• show how to convert a firearm to automatic or simulated-automatic fire
• show how to install such accessories or modifications

The change was met with anger from some videomakers who modify guns and show off their creations as a hobby.

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Ahhhh, now we can go to PornHub legally, telling our wifes that it's just for the guns..

[legion]

Ahhhh, now we can go to PornHub legally, telling our wifes that it's just for the guns..

Like buying Playboy for the articles

natsukashiiiiiii!!!!!

(which reminds me, many years ago I knew a guy whose job it was to scratch out the pubes in foreign porn mags)