A video that describes America's obsession

sandorski

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Elementary School shootings might be a regular News item soon. Just chain Guns to Light posts already, because why not?

OTOH, hopefully this is a one off extreme and not a sign of things to come. Kinda pessimistic though. Not that things are not crappy already, but....
 
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Moonbeam

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In California the parents of that toddler would be criminals subject to prosecution. We have laws that require guns to be locked up safe from children. Trigger locks and gun safes are required if children can be present.
 
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HomerJS

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this is what happens when you pass laws making It so much easier to carry and have handguns around with zero training or background checks. Way to go Indiana.

If cops treated him like Tamir Rice that kid would be dead. Remember Tamir had a toy
 

Moonbeam

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If cops treated him like Tamir Rice that kid would be dead. Remember Tamir had a toy
Racism is a means by which one can differentiate oneself from somebody else based on superficial identifiers like Jewish names or eye shape or skin color or a thousand other things. The important thing is that the difference is vital to separating ones self from anything that would identify the hatred of that different other thing from revealing the fact that the real thing that is hated is oneself. You can only project when you don't recognize yourself looking back at you.

Racists are horrible but even more importantly, they are deeply and needlessly sad.

Just imagine that the intensity of hatred we feels for evil is actually how much we hate ourselves.
 

trenchfoot

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What's the big deal here? The daddy obviously took the time to engage the safety on the piece before he threw it in the kid's crib to suck on. /s
 
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brycejones

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The only defense against a bad toddler with a gun is a good toddler with a gun. When will the gun industry stop being so woke and make guns that are easier for good toddlers to handle?

FOX refuses to cover this critical issue about freedom because they have totally caved to the woke Liberal Democrat media.
 

soundforbjt

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Feb 15, 2002
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The only defense against a bad toddler with a gun is a good toddler with a gun. When will the gun industry stop being so woke and make guns that are easier for good toddlers to handle?

FOX refuses to cover this critical issue about freedom because they have totally caved to the woke Liberal Democrat media.
Body armored diapers!
 

soundforbjt

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Elementary School shootings might be a regular News item soon. Just chain Guns to Light posts already, because why not?

OTOH, hopefully this is a one off extreme and not a sign of things to come. Kinda pessimistic though. Not that things are not crappy already, but....
Elementary schools? Try Pre-schools & Daycares at this rate.
 

woolfe9998

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About 110 children aged 0-14 die every year in the US from accidental firearm discharge. This is not including serious injuries. Also does not include intentional shootings.
 
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Body armored diapers!

*runs to patent/copyright/trademark "tactical diapers"*

I bet it'd be a lucrative industry. Well if you made sure to make the adult ones so all the pant-shitting scared out of their minds gun nuts could keep from ruining their pants.
 

woolfe9998

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Doesn't matter as long as the parents got their 2A rights

I actually know a woman whose 10 year old son died this way. They weren't quite as reckless as this asshole. The gun was in a locked drawer, and not loaded. But this kid was 10 and he figured out where the key was and he knew from watching the internet how to load the gun. He was shot by his friend while the two were horsing around with it, with the mother downstairs not realizing that they had gotten the gun.

Anyway, she now has a very different view of "2A rights" and supports strict gun control. It's too bad she had to find out the hard way.