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Andrew W. Farago
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We're doomed, aren't we?
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Peter Martin
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Good grief. Two things that I would have thought we might easily be able to aim for. One, gun manufacturers volunteering not to make guns designed for children. Two, try to keep firearms out of the hands of young children.
I say 'young' children because I would think this is the least that we might expect.
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Joe Hollon
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Obviously we need to arm two year olds so they can defend themselves.
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Aaron Smith
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I'm in favor of much stricter gun control than we have now, but it boggles my mind even further to see things like this that demonstrate that people can't even do the minimum and, at the very LEAST, keep guns away from children! Isn't it obvious? Why not give a 5-year-old a driver's license too and let him got for a spin down a busy highway? Would the same parents that buy these kids' rifles, I wonder, hand their son a book of matches and a can of gasoline and say, "Here, Timmy, go have fun!"
How easy it is for adults to have access to guns is one debate, but the fact that people are making them, advertising them,and buying them for small children is so far beyond asinine that it makes my head hurt.
Everybody in that article sounds like an idiot. The parents "thought the gun was actually unloaded, and it wasn't."
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Ronald Joseph
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Everybody in that article sounds like an idiot. The parents "thought the gun was actually unloaded, and it wasn't."
As sad as this is, it also makes me wonder what kind of adult their son will grow up to be and what kind of adult their daughter would have grown up to be with the parental guidance they seem to have had.
Images of a toothless, racist hick with a sleeveless flannel shirt in a pickup truck and a teen mom/stripper/meth addict keep popping into my head.
Apologies to anyone from Kentucky who may feel that I'm being a tad stereotypical.
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Brian Peck
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"In a brief news release, state police said the shooting occurred when the boy
was "playing" with the rifle, but did not elaborate. It is not clear whether any
charges will be filed, said Kentucky State Police spokesman Trooper Billy
Gregory.
"I think it's too early to say whether there will or won't be," Gregory said."
Um.. ya charge the parents with Criminal Negligence.
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Stephen Churay
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Where the hell was Dad?! And why doesn't he have his guns locked
in a gun safe, knowing he has children in the house?!
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Brian Lewis
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Perhaps you should look up the word usage of the word "tad".
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Brian Peck
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They did gift the gun to the 5 year old. He should be smart enough to know
to lock the gun up from himself. If you have to be 21 to drink alcohol why is
there no age limit on guns?
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Anthony J Lombardi
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I'm waiting for someone from the nra to say this wouldn't have happen if the two year old had a gun as well.
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Thom Price
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Where the hell was Dad?! And why doesn't he have his guns locked
in a gun safe, knowing he has children in the house?!
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Did you read the article? The gun belonged to the 5 year old.
Edited by Thom Price on 01 May 2013 at 5:04pm
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Jason Stephens
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I got "my" first rifle at maybe age 10 I think. Younger than that seems more like the adults reacting more to their political opposition than anything else.
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