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Please explain to me "My first gun."
So this company called Crickett makes guns specifically for small children 4-10.
That seems like a perfectly valid thing: a well regulated militia would certainly have toddlers...  So when the inevitable happens, no one should be shocked. On Tuesday, inside a rural Kentucky home, a five-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his two-year-old sister. The boy had been playing with a .22 caliber single-shot Crickett rifle made and marketed for kids. The children's mother was reportedly outside the house when the shooting took place, and apparently didn't know that the gun contained a shell. "Just one of those crazy accidents," said the Cumberland County coroner, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader. Some people...
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Relax...
About 10 kids a year are killed by lightning strikes every year. More than 100 are killed by parents backing up their cars in driveways. Accidents happen. It's the price of freedom. I got my first shotgun at 5. Started hunting alone by age 12. Guns are a part of American culture that you don't understand. Designing firearms for kids? Probably safer than the adult sized .410 I was lugging around at 5.
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Whether it s a gun marketed for 5 y/o's or adults it the parents' resonsibility to make sure guns are secured!
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Of course you can teach your kid how to shoot at a young age, and of course you'd do that on a rifle that's designed for it. Is that a toy that should be left laying around loaded? No! It is just negligence by the parent(s). There are a lot of other things in our lives that are deadly if not controlled properly. You are from L.A. - how many kids drown in the backyard swimming pool every year? Same root cause: Negligence.
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Yup, parenting issue here. Could have been a piece of cutlery, plastice bag, or looped cord in the corner and the 5 year old may not have understood the ramifications of using any of them on his sister.
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I started shooting a .22 at 6-7. I was a couple years older until I could pull the cocking knob by myself, but I carried it all over for years.
I got my boys a youth-sized .22 when the older boy was 7. Sold it to a friend after they outgrew it. I don't know anyone who has been injured by an accidental gunshot and I know lots of shooters. I know plenty of people who have been injured by cars. Those stories don't even make the paper in most cases. Selective reporting. |
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Moses: You haven't a clue about me, so don't be an a-hole and assume. I fired expert with every weapon I handled when I was in the Army and had a single shot .22 when I was 10. I sold my assault rifle a couple months ago after having it for 25+ years.
You can 'invent' a profile for people who don't like random innocents getting killed by guns, but I don't fit it, and most others don't. Might be better to talk with people than AT them. The issue is bigger than you want to admit. Know the number of people in the US killed by guns vs. lightning strikes and pool drownings? Or knives? Or...?
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In case anyone is interested, Slate has been keeping a tally since Sandy Hook...
Gun-death tally: Every American gun death since Newtown Sandy Hook shooting (INTERACTIVE). - Slate Magazine
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 Your first post regarding "toddlers" in a militia sounded like "a-hole" venting to me.
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neat. about the same time i began collecting stories of lives saved by the defensive use of firearms. 19 pages so far. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-politics-religion/728290-self-defense.html see you all when this gets to parf.
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Lets not forget teh "my first toolbox" stuff from Lowes, Home Depot, etc. How many injuries occur every year with basic hand tools? How many people are killed with hammers?
What a "child appropriate" firearm is is something that is small enough for short people to handle well and safely. Low recoil (22lr), often single shot, often manually cocked.
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It's about gun control. It's also about what the mainstream media chooses to cover and what they don't. This should be in PARF....
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Perhaps when it makes it over there it will contain an article of relevance.
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