Posted on 08/04/2006 8:10:39 AM PDT by 2banana
ping to myself for later read.
Don't you know that Eddie the Eagle turns kids into gun toting thugs and causes all sorts of accidents and shootings? But teaching the fundamentals of condom use prevents pregnancies while (barely) teaching kids how to drive a car and sending them onto American highway carnage is just fine.
Correct you are. And THAT is the REAL crux of the problem. If the kid's parents or the kid's school had actually taught the rudiments of GUN SAFETY, then there would more than likely have been no problem, and the kid would be alive today.
Why should gun owners be responsible for the failures of others???
Philly had fewer murders last year than it did in '94 before shall issue CC permit requirements were extended to the city by Harrisburg.
Yup! ;0)
Indeed. All kids need to go through the Eddie Eagle program.
Down here in Alabama last spring, we had a middle school boy who was shot and killed with a pellet rifle; he and some friends found his father's pellet rifle in the garage and were fooling around with it. He was shot in the chest at close range. Very sad.
Seems like a lot of children fall out of windows these days. Evil Gravity?
"I figured there would be photographers and I wanted to get there before all the good backdrops were too crowded."
Outside, the undertaker paced, waiting for the family to arrive, and a priest smoked a cigarette, ready to pray.
"I waited inside where the lighting favored my complexion. I had to turn off a couple of the overheads, because they were throwing unflattering shadows."
Inside, I stood alone beside a small casket holding an 8-year-old boy, shot through the forehead by his best friend.
"I think it made for a dramatic pose, even though the family wouldn't let me take the body out of the casket and carry it around with me. But I think I come off looking pretty sympathetic. In one shot, the light hits my eyes and it looks like I'm crying. I've still got the pictures, wanna see?"
Yes.
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Should have brought up the higher numbers with autos.
And just why was this trusted 14 YO rumaging and ransaking the house?
"Unsecured" is meant to imply laying on the kitchen table, next to the can opener used to open the dog food.
More likely, it was in either a desk or bedside drawer; perhaps even in a box on a closet shelf.
or
Time to unload on people lacking common sense
Apparently there is a Gary Mauser too. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Mauser
Makes one hell of a rifle, also.
"I guess that will be the last book of his I'll buy. (Marley and Me)"
Have you ever read such a more narcissistic and pedantic book?
Not to mention the laughable inconsistencies from page one:
St. Shaun was a) from a puppy mill b) an unwanted (read "rescue") dog.
Sheesh.
That IS a great book!
Until he recognizes the REAL root cause of the problems in Philly ... it will never be fixed
Guns have been around for thousands of years .. but many parts of Philly haven't always been the hell hole it is today
I guess I'm not that deep.
"“You know,” she said, looking up. “I tried so hard and look what happened. I can’t even keep a stupid houseplant alive. I mean, how hard is that? All you need to do is water the damn thing. ”
Then she got to the real issue: “If I can’t even keep a plant alive, how am I ever going to keep a baby alive?” She looked like she might start crying.
The Baby Thing, as I called it, had become a constant in Jenny’s life and was getting bigger by the day..."
Yep. That's deep all right.
Chacune son goo, I guess.
If this simple jimgle were allowed to replace the "guns bad, no guns good" mantra, how many lives could be saved every year?
Rudimentary firearms safety education at the elementary level is readily available from the NRA.
These people don't care about safety, they only care about eliminating guns, so they'd be damned first before they would actually teach anyone how to be safe around firearms.
Now, didn't anyone tell that boy not to go messing with other people's stuff? A smidgin of 'home training' might have saved his life, too.
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