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In reply to the discussion: Linkin Leatham, 'Miracle' Baby, Dies After Accidentally Shooting Himself With Father's Gun [View all]Hoyt
(54,770 posts)79. And who will teach/certify the safety course, those approved by NRA leadership -- Norquist, Bolton,
Nugent, gun manufacturers, and worse?
Some day we will quit glamorizing guns in our society.
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onehandle
Sep 2012
OP
"...their son picked up a handgun left at his eye level and inadvertently fired it"
Flaxbee
Sep 2012
#6
"What kind of moron keeps a loaded gun within arms reach of unsupervised 2 year old"
cstanleytech
Sep 2012
#27
No responsible gun owner I know would leave a gun at eye level of a 2yr old.
Tigress DEM
Sep 2012
#31
The only way to prevent tragedies like this is to take guns out of the equation.
wickerwoman
Sep 2012
#36
How much safer would we be if so many folks weren't accumulating/carrying guns? A lot I think.
Hoyt
Sep 2012
#76
Guns have led to more deaths, tragedy than needed. To make gun crowd happy, we have to accept
Hoyt
Sep 2012
#78
Because guns -- and promotion of more and more guns in society -- are part of the problem.
Hoyt
Sep 2012
#84
They should not be allowed to keep them in their private residences loaded on a coffee table.
wickerwoman
Sep 2012
#62
Not just a gun - a loaded gun, with a round in the chamber, and the safety off,
mikeytherat
Sep 2012
#37
Something smells about this...can't put my finger on it just yet but i din't like the sound of it.
nanabugg
Sep 2012
#19
Well, toddlers are left alone while sleeping... and from there they can wander.
Tigress DEM
Sep 2012
#33
One of the reasons my kids all slept with me. I slept light "just in case." nt
Still Blue in PDX
Sep 2012
#90
Put the frickin' cretin parents in jail for negligent homicide, child abuse/neglect, whatever.
kath
Sep 2012
#24
A two-year-old who was sick at birth holds a gun so as to be able to pull the trigger and shoot his
JDPriestly
Sep 2012
#28
If that father needs a class to learn not to leave loaded sidearms around toddlers
Blue_Tires
Sep 2012
#49
And who will teach/certify the safety course, those approved by NRA leadership -- Norquist, Bolton,
Hoyt
Sep 2012
#79
Local law enforcement agencies, shooting ranges, gun clubs, colleges, retired military people
slackmaster
Sep 2012
#80
I think promotion of guns -- under guise of training, or whatever -- has no place in school.
Hoyt
Sep 2012
#82
Guns and sex are hardly in the same category, unless one is really into their guns.
Hoyt
Sep 2012
#87
Your logic is flawed, and I don't accept your claim of insight into millions of peoples' motivations
slackmaster
Sep 2012
#88
Mommy and daddy need to go to jail now for negligent homicide at a minimum. This was no accident
trouble.smith
Sep 2012
#73