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Gun Control & RKBA

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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 [View all]

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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