Gun Control & RKBA

muriel_volestrangler

(102,740 posts) Mon Jul 9, 2018, 02:17 PM Jul 2018

4 toddlers in the USA shot themselves over the weekend. 3 dead, 1 critical

A two-year-old boy in Houston has died after shooting himself in the head with an unsecured gun that he found inside his home, according to Texas police.
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On Saturday, a two-year-old boy in Fresno, California was killed in a similar incident.
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The father of four-year-old Justin Foss Jr, who accidentally killed himself with a gun on Saturday, has been charged in Georgia.
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In Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, a four-year-old child is in critical condition after accidentally shooting himself in a resort hotel room on Saturday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44772682

Gun culture. If it's not the guns that kill people, it's the toddlers, presumably? Or is it those who perpetuate the culture?

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4 toddlers in the USA shot themselves over the weekend. 3 dead, 1 critical (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jul 2018 OP

Clearly there are not enough good toddlers with guns. redwitch Jul 2018 #1

The nutters will just tell you Ohiogal Jul 2018 #2

If you have kids, keep your guns locked the fuck up! Initech Jul 2018 #3

exactly right marshmallow_man Jul 2018 #5

I can't help thinking that some of these kids were unwanted. People are horrible sometimes. bettyellen Jul 2018 #4

Stupid to leave a round in the chamber with small kids in the house. EX500rider Jul 2018 #6

redwitch

(15,102 posts)

1. Clearly there are not enough good toddlers with guns.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Mon Jul 9, 2018, 02:21 PM

Jul 2018

Inexcusable, unfathomable, just sheer horror at this.

Ohiogal

(35,409 posts)

2. The nutters will just tell you

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Mon Jul 9, 2018, 02:22 PM

Jul 2018

That these childrens' lives are the price we have to pay for our freedom to unfettered gun ownership.

Initech

(102,779 posts)

3. If you have kids, keep your guns locked the fuck up!

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Mon Jul 9, 2018, 02:23 PM

Jul 2018

They are not play things!

marshmallow_man

(9 posts)

5. exactly right

Reply to Initech (Reply #3)

Mon Jul 9, 2018, 05:22 PM

Jul 2018

Very disappointed to see people in this thread talking about more toddlers with guns and unfettered access to firearms. There are a thousand ways a toddler can kill/injure themselves, parents must be held responsible.

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)

4. I can't help thinking that some of these kids were unwanted. People are horrible sometimes.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Mon Jul 9, 2018, 02:58 PM

Jul 2018

At best you can say these parents didn’t value human life enough.

EX500rider

(11,641 posts)

6. Stupid to leave a round in the chamber with small kids in the house.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Thu Jul 26, 2018, 02:17 PM

Jul 2018

My small built female roommate awhile back could barely rack the slide on my Glock-17 at the time, no way a toddler could.

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