More Great Second Amendment Moments from America
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Shopping with a loaded pistol in yer purse. Another great idea.
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Two-year-old accidentally shoots and kills woman in Wal-mart
Hayden, Idaho: A two-year-old child has accidentally shot and killed a 29-year-old woman in a US store after he reached into her bag accidentally firing her gun, authorities said.
The woman was shopping with a number of children and it is unclear how they are related, Kootenai County sheriff's spokesman Stu Miller said. Authorities originally said the boy was the woman's son.
The woman, whose identity was not released, had a concealed weapons permit.
Mr Miller said the shooting was accidental and occurred in a Wal-Mart in Hayden, Idaho, a town about 65 kilometres north-east of Spokane, Washington. Employees evacuated the store after the shooting.
The woman and the children were at the back of the store when the shooting occurred, authorities said.
KREM-TV reported that witnesses and video surveillance from the store helped deputies determine the shooting was accidental.
AP, DPA
http://www.theage.com.au/world/twoyearold-accidentally-shoots-and-kill
s-woman-in-walmart-20141230-12fu2z.html
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As of 2007 about 5.2% of Australian adults (765,000 people) own and use firearms for purposes such as hunting, controlling feral animals, collecting, security work, and target shooting.
37%, more than a third of Americans say they or someone in their household owns a gun.
Apparently this women had one in the chamber and the safety off. Not smart...
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I think most women who go into Wal-Mart have guns in their handbags...and tampons.
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Tragic accident, but that's all it was. More folks die of misusing their cars than their guns.
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Accident? More like gross negligence or depraved indifference or reckless disregard by the owner. Any of those would be an appropriate charge.
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A Brady Centre report published last month, called the Truth About Kids and Guns, showed that guns are the second-leading cause of death and injury to American children after car accidents. Gross said while the auto industry and government did all they could to reduce the incidence and impact of such accidents, the gun industry and NRA did all it could to prevent any action to reduce the impact of gun deaths. The report showed that in 2011, 19,403 children and teens were shot and 2703 were killed.
http://www.theage.com.au/world/the-uss-gun-laws-are-failing-its-childr
en-20141122-11r29n.html
Here is the report
http://www.bradycampaign.org/the-truth-about-kids-guns
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Mass Shootings More Lethal Than Homegrown Islamist Terrorism
—By Adam Serwer
The Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security released a study Friday (first reported on by Spencer Ackerman of Wired) that showed that terrorism perpetrated by Muslim Americans, already a very rare occurrence, declined for the third year in a row. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill professor Charles Kurzman, who authored the study, noted that mass shootings by non-Muslims in 2012 were considerably more lethal than homegrown terror attacks by Muslims. There were nine such terror plots last year, five of which involved confidential informants, compared to seven mass shootings.
For example, in 2012, the number of deaths resulting from acts of terror perpetrated by Muslim American suspects was zero. By comparison, there were 66 deaths from mass shootings in the United States in 2012.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/02/mass-shootings-terrorism-casua
lties-comparison-report
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A study published this week in the Annual Review of Public Health summarizes some basic, sobering stats about about gun violence in America. The author, University of California-Davis doctor and researcher Garen Wintemute, used statistics from the Centers for Disease Control to track mortality rates from firearm suicides and homicides in the United States over more than fifty years.
Here are some of the findings from Wintemute's study, in a handy—if grisly—Q&A format:
Which kills more Americans, guns or cars?
Answer: Car accidents, but firearms deaths are catching up. In some states, guns do kill more people than cars—check out this map.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/gun-violence-car-deaths-ch
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Yeah... safety off? Round chambered? REALLY???
Wow, I feel so sorry for the kid (the mom is beyond all that). Fortunately, he's small enough to not remember what happened very clearly. Unfortunately, he'll be without a mom for the rest of his life. What a pointless tragedy.
"Gun rights" advocates like to point to Germany as an example of a nation with high gun ownership and low gun death rates, but the reality is that their gun ownership laws are very restrictive. For example, in order to own a gun, you must take a course and pass a practical exam. Furthermore, it's impossible to get a concealed carry permit unless you have a job in security in some form. And finally, you have to keep your gun and ammo in separate locked safes at home. It's just common sense to require these things, but our gun lobby seems to be beyond common sense.
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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Tragic accident, but that's all it was. More folks die of misusing their cars than their guns.
Still no cites, huh?
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