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In reply to the discussion: Linkin Leatham, 'Miracle' Baby, Dies After Accidentally Shooting Himself With Father's Gun [View all]slackmaster
(60,567 posts)80. Local law enforcement agencies, shooting ranges, gun clubs, colleges, retired military people
There are plenty of good people out there, Hoyt.
Some day we will quit glamorizing guns in our society.
If you think that teaching young people how to avoid getting injured or killed is glamorizing something, I submit that you have a very badly distorted view of life.
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Linkin Leatham, 'Miracle' Baby, Dies After Accidentally Shooting Himself With Father's Gun [View all]
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