Freedom!

[Lemon Drop]

13 year old shoots 6 year old sister in the chest with loaded gun parents left lying around.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward...9793.story


According to the Children's Defense Fund, one-third of all households with children younger than 18 have a gun, and more than 40 percent of gun-owning households with children store their guns unlocked.

The fund also reported that 22 percent of children with gun-owning parents handled guns in their homes without their parents' knowledge.

Guns and accidental shootings involving children were in the national news last week when a 5-year-old Kentucky boy shot and killed his 2-year-old sister with a special, child-sized rifle he got in November for his birthday.

How many more children have to pay for their parents' special "freedom" to be negligent morons?

The excuses for these people ring hollow.

[$tevie]

So far this year, more people in the United States have been killed by elementary school-aged children than by terrorists.

[beagledave]

The magical answer to all of this is Eddie Eagle.

And MORE guns.

[Lemon Drop]

$tevie wrote:
So far this year, more people in the United States have been killed by elementary school-aged children than by terrorists.

that's quite a statement.

[Manlove]

beagledave wrote:
The magical answer to all of this is Eddie Eagle.

And MORE guns.

I thought you meant Eddie THE Eagle Edwards!

[SteveG]

[August West]

Maybe the girl really doesn't like the rifle, but I'm going with "She wants to get her hands on the dynamite."

[Mac-A-Matic]

The "dynamite" in the photo are actually battery cells at power the airsoft rifle. And the canisters are butane that is used as a propellant in he airsoft handgun on the table.

[Lemon Drop]

that just reminded me that sometimes there are just more levels of stupidity than you can believe:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/father-christop...YgzEkq8K3Y

[samintx]

....and the gun law would prevent lack of judgement parents from leaving a gun around?

My question is: How do little kids fire a gun? It takes me two hands to pull the trigger and I don't know how a little kid has the strength to pull a trigger.