Posted on 09/08/2014 3:43:57 AM PDT by rellimpank
Seven accidental child shootings in one month. On two occasions, two per day.
May days • May 3: A 3-year-old Wisconsin boy shoots himself in the head after finding a loaded handgun in the glove box of his mother’s car.
• May 12: A South Carolina 3-year-old finds a gun under a mattress and shoots himself in the leg.
• May 12: A 4-year-old shoots himself in the head while visiting his grandmother’s house in South Carolina. He dies four days later.
• May 17: An Indiana 4-year-old fatally shoots himself in the head with his parents’ gun after managing to get it down from a high shelf in a closet.
• May 17: A 5-year-old North Carolina boy, the son of a deputy, shoots himself in the ear with his father’s service revolver.
• May 25: A Florida 6-year-old shoots and kills his grandfather with an assault rifle left unattended on a table at a family barbecue. The gun belongs to the child’s uncle.
• May 27: A 3-year-old Arizona boy shoots and kills his 1 1/2-year-old brother after the boys find a handgun in a neighbor’s apartment.
This is the norm in America.
An average of two children a week, more than 100 a year, are killed in unintentional shootings by their peers, according to a study by two gun-safety groups, Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action. Another 660 children are hospitalized annually.
The United States has one of the highest rates of accidental shootings by children in the world, and experts say the tally is likely even higher. Police and medical examiners misclassify as many as half as homicides, suicides or cause unknown, researchers say.
The statistics also reflect only incidents in which children ages 14 and younger were shot. Dozens more cases
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
You train your children on how to handle guns safely, and you enforce absolute discipline in the matter. That’s how.
Accidental poisonings usually affect children. From 1972-1976, there were 1-2 million cases of accidental poisonings per year in the United States. Since 1976, the number of accidental poisonings has dropped to about 500,000 cases per year. This decrease is attributed to the Poison Prevention Packaging Act and to poison prevention publicity.
The most common sources of accidental poisoning were plants, various types of cleaners (soaps, detergents, and household cleaners), vitamins and minerals, and aspirin. Aspirin is no longer the most common cause of accidental poisoning. This is probably because of child-resistant packaging.
Inappropriate dosing in children and elderly people: Hundreds of medications available both over-the-counter and by prescription contain aspirin or aspirin-like substances. Unintentional aspirin poisoning can result if these medications are taken in combination, in inappropriate doses, or over a long time period. This is especially likely to occur in older people with chronic health problems.
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Which is the larger problem; aspirin of guns?
1,500 children drown in the U.S. every year because of our damned swimming pool and bathtub culture.
Google ‘holodomor’. Then click images. Look at all of the children that lived in gun free homes.
There’s your alternative.
How do we keep children educated and secure in a culture of guns?
The “safe” part would be to actually teach them NOT TO TOUCH, a phrase unheard in today’s society. We simply put things out of reach of little Johnny so he can’t get to them rather than discipline him for breaking rules...including safety rules.
Put the guns out of reach of both mommy, daddy and little johnny or better yet turn them into the government and they will be safe. Later in life they will be “educated” in public indoctrination centers that all guns are bad and must be removed from the general public.
Keep them away from leftycommiescum, public scrools and TV.
Home School them and have them go to an Eddie Eagle Program at a young age and after that, Train them properly in the Safe use of Firearms both Defensive and Offensive.
Do not let them go near leftycommiescum or the offspring of such.
Why guns, of course. I would have thought that was obvious to everybody.
They are EEVVVIIILLLLLL!
“How do we keep children educated and secure in a culture of guns?”.....
For those who already attend school, TEACH GUN SAFETY IN SCHOOL. EVERY child should be taught gun safety if there are guns in their homes or not. No exceptions.
For those parents who are not educated on gun safety, make them attend the same school.
This may not solve all the unnecessary deaths but would certainly be a good effort.
Same way we have for the past 500 years or so...
Look up the story list on Domanicj and Valley and it’s apparent. They love queers and Muslims and hate guns. Need I say more?
If you do some checking on the net it’s pretty obvious Domanick and Valley prefer Islam over Christianity as well. Both attended universities / indoctrination centers and fit right into the liberal mold.
THAT'S certainly a couple of objective sources the writer cited! I realize that newspapers are ALL teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, but this stuff takes maybe a minute or two to check via the internet.
Statistically, a random swimming pool is MUCH more dangerous than a random firearm:
Why no movement to outlaw swimming pools, and boats?
Let’s not forget the many who are killed or maimed as a result of our automobile culture!
Can we list the many THOUSANDS of children who where NOT killed by thugs because they know that people have guns in their homes and will not hesitate to shoot a criminal that breaks in their home and is about to harm or kill their child?
Waiting until the kids are in school is a bit late. Best time is when they first have sufficient coordination to pick up and manipulate devices of a size/weight of a handgun, and have "some" reasoning capability.
Here is how it was done with me (and my younger brother). Around age four, dad took me and his .22 semiauto handgun out in the backyard (we lived on a farm) and set up a target. He popped off a few shots, then sat down on the ground with me standing in front of him, and put the gun in my dominant hand. He kept HIS hand over mine, but I pulled the trigger (I forget how many times). After that, I got the standard gun safety lecture:
1) Guns can be dangerous if misused.
2) NEVER touch a gun if I was not given permission.
3) Guns are assumed to be ALWAYS loaded (and around our house, they darn well were.
4) Never point a gun at another person.
Once through this "inoculation" I well knew the difference between my toy guns and the real thing.
My brother got the same treatment at the same age. I suspect other children in the area got similar. In the entire time I lived in that community, I NEVER heard of a gun accident with a very young child. Hunting accidents, yes.......those "did" happen. But "stored gun kills child"....NEVER.
Buckets seem so innocent — how can a bucket kill a child? Unfortunately, about 20 children die in the U.S. every year because they drown in buckets.
Lets not forget 5 gallon buckets
Exactly right. The harshest gun rule I grew up with, one that applied to my kids too, was "any gun safety violation is an automatic ban from shooting activities for a minimum of one year". With the certainty of such a stiff penalty, no one touched a gun without permission or mishandled one when they had permission. I would have been very strict with that penalty if the situation had come up, but I never had to follow through. My kids knew how to handle guns, knew they could handle guns just by asking, and knew they could not handle guns - EVER - without asking and then following all rules perfectly.
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