Kids Killing Kids in Gun LovingTexas
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As the National Rifle Association (NRA) goes on tour to promote universal gun ownership in a country that doesn’t even have universal health care, kids are shooting each other. In Texas three shootings involving children under 10 years old, one of them fatal, took place in the space of just four days, Raw Story reports.
On Wednesday, a five-year-old shot his seven-year-old brother with an old rifle while the two played unsupervised in the bath. On Thursday, a two-year-old fatally shot himself in the head with his dad’s handgun, while his father was busy elsewhere in the room, says Raw Story. And yesterday, an eight-year-old shot his five-year-old friend in the head with a rifle, as the two played alone in a bedroom. The boy is in a critical condition in hospital, the Denton Record-Chronicle reports.
Two of the guns used were .22-caliber rifles, similar to the one with which a five-year-old accidentally killed his two-year-old sister in Kentucky earlier this month. The grandfather of the children spoke out this week, saying his grandson was too young to have a gun and that it was a cultural problem in rural Kentucky. “Too many people think it’s (guns) for target practice. Well, what comes after target practicing—killing. I know, I was in the Marine Corps,” he told the Star Democrat. “When you pick this (gun) up, you’re usually going to kill something.”
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I am going to just sit back and hope that the gun nuts will eventually kill each other off.
Is it true that the 5 year olds gun comes in pink for girls? That’s the rumour over here in Blighty.
Pleeeeease say it isn’t so!!!!!
It’s true Norman. It’s so very, very true.
Yeah, next year the NRA in cahoots with the gun manufacturers are planning on coming out with a powder blue mini-handgun for boys 5 and under and a purplish-pink one for girls 4 and under. (Girls are supposed to be more responsible.)
You Yanks are a queer lot with your bloody guns killing each other. Hardly ever happens in the UK because we have laws against such.
We do indeed lolly – shame The Yardies and other such scumbags ignore said laws babe.
Thank God (or the deity of your choice) we don’t have that ‘right to bare arms’ stuff eh? – I can think of several I’d shoot without a moments hesitation 😉
Brave man, this grandfather. Too bad there are not more like him and especially bad that no one wants to listen to them.
I agree James. As you said his words will be lost on the Kentucky gun nuts.