Posted on 01/09/2003 10:44:53 AM PST by Cuttnhorse
Edited on 05/07/2004 6:21:44 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Idaho again has received a failing grade from a national gun-control organization, which says the state is among the worst at protecting children from gunfire. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence awarded Idaho an
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Okay, I'll ask. How? Hopefully you won't say eating at Subway.
Hip, Hip, Horray!!!!!!!!!!
They (the liberals) don't like it that we TEACH our kids out here how to responsibly use guns. That drives them wild, because we are encouraging the kids to foster safe gun use.
What they want in terms of safety (which is actually the anti-thesis thereof) is NO guns in the hands of the kids or their parents.
Well ... too bad. I say to them ... MOLON LABE!
Idaho must be doing something right.
Go spuds!
Sounds like you have a 10 pound head start to me ;-)
I was told that when I was old enough to have a gun, they'd get me a real gun. Got a .22 rifle for my 12th birthday, followed by a lesson in gun safety and gun handling. I went through Jr. High and H.S. with a gun behind my door. I knew where the ammo was, as well as the location of several more serious guns in the house.
Somehow, I got through my childhood without killing myself or any other kids.
"You'll shoot your eye out, kid!"
Yeh, that caught my eye, but the second half was the best:
“On a positive note, Idaho does regulate possession of guns by kids.”
LOL!!! What State doesn't? I'm not sure what they are even trying to point out by saying that.
By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Writer
MONTPELIER -- Vermont can do more to protect children from gun violence, according to a national gun control advocacy group.
Vermont received a grade of D- for its laws shielding children from guns in the report card released by the Washington-based Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Million Mom March.
"The thing with Vermont is they have such a long way to go," said Chad Ramsey of the Brady Campaign. "Just requiring child safety locks sold with each gun is such a small step but it can help.
There's a laundry list of things that can be done." They include requiring background checks for gun buyers at gun shows and holding adults responsible for allowing children access to loaded guns, he said.
Twenty-eight other states received a grade of D or F in the group's sixth annual report card.
But this year the group noted a nationwide drop in the number of children killed by guns.
Still Vermont and other states can do more to protect children from gun violence, the organization said.
Vermont was criticized for failing to hold adults responsible for leaving loaded guns around children and not requiring criminal background checks for buyers at gun shows.
The report card also faulted Vermont for allowing 16-year-olds to carry concealed weapons in public and lacking safety design standards for handguns.
The only praise Vermont received was for limiting the sale or possession of handguns by children under 15.
Vermont has earned the same low grade for the six years that the organization has issued its state analyses. An activist for the National Rifle Association says Vermont's low crime rate is an indication that gun use need not be restricted. "Vermont is unique in the United State. We have no laws in this state prohibiting a person from carrying a loaded weapon. At the same time we have an extremely low crime rate. That tells you something," said Jim Peddon of Shoreham.
"We don't have street crime."
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