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Gun Control Reform Activism

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Ed Suspicious

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Sun Mar 2, 2014, 10:01 AM Mar 2014

The reward doesn't match the risk. People make mistakes, and to me, the tradeoff of gun ownership [View all]

is just too much. The consequences are often just too tragic. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/02/ohio-boy-fatally-shoots-8-year-old-brother-after-thinking-handgun-wasnt-real/

“We walked in through the front door here that’s in to the kitchen area and the child was laying on his back with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was conscious and alert at that time,” Cincinnati police Sgt. Jim Perkins told WXIX.


Lt. Don Luck recalled that one sibling “kept telling the story of how it happened, over and over again.”
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When these things happen, the *irresponsible* gun owner needs to suffer tblue37 Mar 2014 #1
This is my thinking on this. drm604 Mar 2014 #2
I like your point. defacto7 Mar 2014 #4
Responsible American gun owners billh58 Mar 2014 #3
LoL! DRAEGER Mar 2014 #5
Blocking for the personal attack SecularMotion Mar 2014 #6
His stay with us billh58 Mar 2014 #11
Welcome to DU Flying Squirrel Mar 2014 #7
And LEO? rdharma Mar 2014 #9
Welcome to one of the members of the latest pro-gun crowd. Paladin Mar 2014 #8
Multiple personalities billh58 Mar 2014 #10
In case you are still billh58 Mar 2014 #12
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