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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAt Least 4 People Shot by Toddlers Since Last Weekend
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Think Progress / By Andrea Peterson
At Least 4 People Shot by Toddlers Since Last Weekend
Will the 14 senators whove promised to filibuster any gun safety legislation will succeed in their efforts to maintain the status quo.
April 10, 2013 |
All week, official Washington is fixated on the question of whether the 14 senators whove promised to filibuster any gun safety legislation will succeed in their efforts to maintain the status quo. Meanwhile, gun violence continues unabated in the rest of the nation. In a particularly tragic chapter in our nations struggle with such violence, at least four people including two children were seriously injured or killed since last weekend in accidental shootings where toddlers obtained loaded weapons:
* A Tennessee woman was shot in the stomach by her 2-year-old child on Sunday. Rekia Kid was sleeping with the toddler and her three-week-old baby when the toddler discovered a Glock 9 mm stored underneath her pillow and discharged the weapon. Kid managed to get out of the house and crawl to a neighbors porch where she was found by the neighbor, who told local news [s]he just kept screaming that she didnt think she was going to make it, she didnt think she was going to make it and to please please take care of my children.
* Josephine G. Fanning was shot and killed Saturday at a Tennessee barbecue when a 4-year-old boy discharged a handgun owned by Fannings husband, Sheriffs Deputy Daniel Fanning. Fanning had left the loaded gun for just a moment on the bed while he went to retrieve another weapon from a locked gun cabinet.
* A 6-year-old boy was accidentally shot by his 4-year-old playmate in a quiet residential New Jersey area yesterday. The victim later died of his wounds, with the victims uncle telling reporters covering the story This never should have happened. Its horrible.
* A 3-year-old died of an accidental self-inflicted gun wound in South Carolina on Tuesday according after finding a gun in an apartment and discharging the weapon. No further details have been released at this time.
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At Least 4 People Shot by Toddlers Since Last Weekend (Original Post)
marmar
Apr 2013
OP
I thought Eddie The Eagle was supposed to make toddlers responsible gun users...
tokenlib
Apr 2013
#6
Let's run around and panic over another manufactured crisis, when the real problem...
slackmaster
Apr 2013
#7
Well it started out as it seeming to be funny, but after I posted it really wasnt
Katashi_itto
Apr 2013
#14
Bennyboy
(10,440 posts)1. guns don't kill people, kids with guns kill people....(NT)
rucky
(35,211 posts)2. Watch the NRA start a pediatric division.
Rex
(65,616 posts)3. I'm sure the NRA would recommend sending those toddlers
to their new program, "Toddlers & Guns & Grover".
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)4. The NRA will just expand their school "safety" proganda garbage program to
Pre-school and perhaps in-vitro.
marmar
(77,102 posts)8. Life and gun lessons begin at conception.
The new mantra of right-wing whackjobs.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)5. Only a good toddler with a gun can stop a bad toddler with a gun
tokenlib
(4,186 posts)6. I thought Eddie The Eagle was supposed to make toddlers responsible gun users...
SORRY! I couldn't resist. Honestly, I find this terrible and tragic....
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)7. Let's run around and panic over another manufactured crisis, when the real problem...
...i.e. stupid people, has always been with us and will never go away.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)9. no shit. we just don't want them to have weapons as readily available.
randr
(12,417 posts)10. I am sick and tired of these crimes being called "accidents"
I a child gets their hands on a gun it is not an accident.
It is a crime and someone needs to pay the time for the crime!
Lock up the adults
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Earth_First
(14,910 posts)12. Is this somehow funny?
What did I miss here?
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)14. Well it started out as it seeming to be funny, but after I posted it really wasnt
After Obama's grand betrayal today, my humor is really off.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)15. Thank you.
I found it to greatly trivialize the gravity of the situation.