No excuses for kids with guns, period

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ^ | 16 Aug 06 | Eugene Kane

[rellimpank]

In the middle of August, 13-year-old children should be wringing the last bit of fun out of their summer vacation.

They should be splashing in the pool, catching insects in a jar, flipping somersaults on an old mattress or throwing a football through a tire hanging from a tree.

Nowhere on the list should be included: "Showing off your new gun to a friend."

But that's what police say happened in yet another senseless shooting that demonstrated how few truly innocent children are growing up in some parts of the central city.

[Puppage]

They should be splashing in the pool

Ah, yes...the safe pool. Where more children die each year than by guns.

[Terabitten]

Ah, yes...the safe pool. Where more children die each year than by guns.

They die for the same reason - lack of parental supervision.

[pageonetoo]

[xcamel]

Really?

"Kids who learn to hunt and fish don't stick up grandma with a saturday night special....."

[Jaxter]

You'll shoot your eye out.

[Pericles_Parnassus]

1993 CDC Study: Teen Gun Deaths Hit New High *S*

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Daily Report Card News Service
Thursday March 25, 1993 Vol. 2 No. 195

THE NATIONAL UPDATE ON AMERICA'S EDUCATION GOALS
An APN publication, supported by The Annie E. Casey Foundation
(c) 1993 by the American Political Network, Inc.

Center for Disease Control STUDY: TEEN GUN DEATHS HIT NEW HIGH
U.S. teens are killing each other with guns at the highest
rate since the government began recording the deaths 30 years
ago, a new study shows (multi.). Almost 4,200 youths ages 15 to
19 were killed by guns in 1990, or about 11 every day. Lois
Fingerhut, an epidemiologist for the National Center for Health
Statistics: "These are just the deaths. We're not talking about
the kids who are shot and don't die." (Scanlan, PHILA. INQUIRER)
The study, which was done by the federal Centers for Disease
Control, also shows that 25% of all deaths between ages 15 and 24
were the result of shootings. And 39% more teens die from
gunshots than from disease. And while the primary cause of death
for black males ages 10 to 34 was guns, the death rate among
white teens is increasing the most rapidly, according to USA
TODAY (Davis).
Paul Blackman, research coordinator for the National Rifle
Association said: "Those who do their homework, go to church on
Sunday, have proper family upbringing aren't being shot in any
particularly different numbers ... the rise is among those
involved in drug trafficking and other criminal activity."
(Scanlan, PHILA. INQUIRER)
But the newspaper adds: "That view contrasts sharply" with
a Va. woman's, whose 17-year-old son was shot and killed "after a
series of quarrels with an Eagle Scout." The woman, Byrl
Phillips-Taylor said: "There is a misconception by the general
population that murder happens to others, that the kind of
violence that turns into murder is only by people doing drugs or
one race against another ... The truth is ... it can happen to
your child as easily as it happened to mine." (all cites 3/24)

[Lurker]

Mr. Kane is an idiot.

Lurker Jr can't get show this off enough:

L

[pageonetoo]

You'll shoot your eye out.

Nah, my mom told me it was something else that would cause me to go blind (or was it grow hair in my palm?).

[AbeKrieger]

Liberals who have no control of their own offspring are in no position to dictate the rules of society. PERIOD.

[13Sisters76]

All three of my kids grew up with guns in our house. They were shown how to shoot at a young age and taught how to handle a gun and NEVER to touch a gun without an adult in attendence.

You can teach a kid not to play in traffic or with matches- you can teach them about guns. Unless you are high on crack much of the time...

[BadAndy]

A story of life and death on the Democrat plantation.

[NonValueAdded]

Romell was shot by a 12-year-old girl he was visiting overnight after running away from home.

He's lucky he wasn't shot by the father ... oh, wait. That's statistically less than his chance of winning the lottery or getting struck by lightning. No, make that a bullet.

Where were the parents?

• When he bought the gun?
• When he wasn't home in bed that night
• Of the 12 year old girl when she brought home a guest?
• When they were playing unsupervised?

Seems like the outcome was preordained - someone was going to get shot or pregnant. And its probably too soon to tell about the latter. Thank you, Great Society, for the death of the inner city family.

[LIConFem]

Growing hair on your palms makes you go blind????

;o)

[WV Mountain Mama]

My 5 year old can shoot his dad's .22 and get bullseyes 2 out of 5 times from 30 yeards. He does it with adult supervision, one round at a time. He is taught gun safety, and has been shown the damage guns can do, understands that damage, already respects it. My husband hands him the loaded gun with one round and the safety on. My son aims at the target, removes the safety, fires, puts the safety back on and hands the gun (using the proper gun safety technique) back to my husband.

Handling a gun safely and being ablt to use one accurately used to be a basic skill taught to just about every child at a young age. Like everything else, parents let everyone or video games raise their children, and then wonder why their kids are idiots. A fork in the hands of an idiot can be deadly, or how about the kid with the aluminum bat that killed a boy a couple of years ago, with lots of people around after a game...

[weegee]

No excuse for kids with crack, period

[weegee]

No excuse for pregnant 13-year olds, period

[weegee]

Saying these things solves nothing...

[longtermmemmory]

Newspapers serve no purpose.

Make your kids safer, set them up on FR.

[weegee]

Libs want kids to "just say no" to guns.
They figure it is a lost cause for everything else.