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In reply to the discussion: 3-year-old boy fatally shot in the head after finding pink gun [View all]Arkansas Granny
(31,505 posts)3. Not just a pink handgun, but a *loaded* pink handgun which was accessible to children.
Irresponsible gun owners should be charged for the deaths or injuries caused by their negligence.
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If stupid people didn't reproduce, that would prevent their children from dying needlessly.
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#6
If stupid people didn't reproduce, that would prevent us from the plague of Wayne LaPierre.
blue neen
Feb 2013
#87
Maybe people who don't store guns safely should be held accountable for their crimes
BlueStreak
Feb 2013
#61
'deed they do. And don't we require every car owner to hold an active insurance policy?
BlueStreak
Feb 2013
#138
My suggestion was that the parents should have been taught basic gun safety
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#66
Once you start requiring a license in order to own something, owning it is no longer a right
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#86
"Your intent is pure evil" - There you have it, fellow DU'ers: sensible gun legislation is "pure
apocalypsehow
Feb 2013
#94
But there is no enumerated right in the constitution that guarantees you affordable food.
Ed Suspicious
Feb 2013
#106
Telling kids to stay away from guns they see in a friends house or a uncles house is not stupid....
Logical
Feb 2013
#133
anyone who needs to be taught in a class to know not to leave a gun with a 3 year old
JI7
Feb 2013
#113
If you need schooling to tell you not to leave a pink gun, that looks like a toy, in a place
Squinch
Feb 2013
#129
Not just a pink handgun, but a *loaded* pink handgun which was accessible to children.
Arkansas Granny
Feb 2013
#3
When their negligence results in the death or injury of a child, or anyone else for that matter,
Arkansas Granny
Feb 2013
#67
I don`t give a crap what anyone thinks,there is no reason to make a real gun to appear
libtodeath
Feb 2013
#4
Exactly,the same should apply in every incident like this when a gun is not locked up.
libtodeath
Feb 2013
#105
Sure expressed their individuality well - we all know it was THEIR kid that got shot.
jmg257
Feb 2013
#19
Yeah, I can hardly think of a better way to say "I'm a criminally negligent asshole." than owning
EOTE
Feb 2013
#69
And from a cigarette maker's standpoint, Joe Camel was great for selling smokes
DisgustipatedinCA
Feb 2013
#112
I don't care what it looks like. It's a deadly weapon and must be kept secured at all times.
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#22
I've seen dozens of posts on DU suggesting guns should be required to be pink
Recursion
Feb 2013
#23
Then get one of the organizations that allegedly cares about this to do something
Recursion
Feb 2013
#47
It's not that they WANT them to be shot: it's that they simply don't care if in ANY WAY
apocalypsehow
Feb 2013
#95
Troublingly, if the NRA didn't see to it that so many Americans were brainwashed into thinking
Chorophyll
Feb 2013
#60
Please see the chart below; accidents are not "the number one gun-related killer of children."
Robb
Feb 2013
#41
Thank you. I misremembered. *obviously* it's OK for only 3000 children to die by firearm accident
Recursion
Feb 2013
#46
I was under the impression Project ChildSafe is neither sponsored by, not affiliated with the NRA
LanternWaste
Feb 2013
#73
My only point being that the NRA is not indeed the only national education program for firearm safet
LanternWaste
Feb 2013
#98
NO CHARGES???? Didn't it belong to someone who made it available to kids???? nt
valerief
Feb 2013
#64
Yep. And the manufacturer needs to be sued for making a lethal weapon that looks like a toy.
Glimmer of Hope
Feb 2013
#124