5-year-old shoots 2-year-old sister with gift rifle

[Tecumsehsbones]

How many monkeys have you raised and trained?

What were their scores on the 200yd benchrest?

Not as many as I've spanked, believe you me.

 

[petros]

How many bananas did it take to lure their mother into the sack?

 

[Christianna]

Oh really? Never? Never happened? Do you want to stick to that?

Did I use the word NEVER? Frankly I can not remember a time when a kid shot another kid, however there was a time when the gun laws were looser so likely it happened then with the same regularity that it does in the US.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

How many bananas did it take to lure their mother into the sack?

Don't talk about your mom that way! Ain't respectful.

 

[DaSleeper]

Good Gawd......Multi national Tag team trolling....................

 

[Colpy]

Did I use the word NEVER? Frankly I can not remember a time when a kid shot another kid, however there was a time when the gun laws were looser so likely it happened then with the same regularity that it does in the US.

Actually, I can remember two cases off the top of my head where young people shot other young people by accident here in NB/NS,

It happens, just like every other accidental death......and accidental death by firearm is a miniscule fraction of accidental deaths in society.....even in the USA.

In the USA, gun accidents count for 0.7% of accidental deaths, or one out of every 141.

You can not be perfectly safe and still free.

 

[EagleSmack]

Did I use the word NEVER? Frankly I can not remember a time when a kid shot another kid, however there was a time when the gun laws were looser so likely it happened then with the same regularity that it does in the US.

You said it doesn't happen in Canada...

While on occasion people are shot, we do not have children accidentally killing anyone.

And it does...

For example...

B.C. Boy Accidentally Shoots And Kills Cranbrook Teen

A 10 year old killing a 17 year old while fooling around with his Dad's shotgun.

 

[Colpy]

Ah yes but in the US pools have to be fenced off because they are a danger to children! Old refrigerators have to either have the doors removed or face a wall because a very few children have suffocated in abandoned fridges. Guns...... well that is a different story, they can be left loaded in a corner and nothing is ever said about that.

You do understand that the NRA has run an award winning program to teach gun safety to children??

Google Eddie Eagle.

And no, the NRA does NOT think it is OK to leave loaded guns standing in corners.....especially with kids around.

 

[Blackleaf]

Eddie Eagle? Wasn't he the famous British ski jumper who became the first ski jumper ever to represent Great Britain in an Olympics, in Seoul in 1988?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Eddie Eagle? Wasn't he the famous British ski jumper who became the first ski jumper ever to represent Great Britain in an Olympics, in Seoul in 1988?

No, it's the NRA youth education programme. Britain is not the world, no matter how much you want it to be.

Welcome to the 21st century.

 

[Fingertrouble]

Meanwhile, the anti-gun idiots demonstrate their stupidity as well.

While I agree that there may have been some poor judgement in cancelling these safety visits as they were already organised, what is worse though, is that the society of guns is so prevelant in the US, that they need to teach gun safety to Elementary school aged children!

Should we not hope that US would at least be smart enough to keep dangerous weapons away from children, who do not yet have a full understanding of "responsibility". Selling guns for kids is just ludicrous and just another moneymaker for the gun manufacturers.

You do understand that the NRA has run an award winning program to teach gun safety to children??

Google Eddie Eagle.

I did....who gave the NRA this award????

Also see this comment regarding a news report about what was found when the kids watched the course and had a police officer talk to the kids and were then left alone:!

"In 1999 the ABC News program 20/20 did a feature on Eddie Eagle which was highly critical of the program.[1] This feature stated that it did not work to simply "Tell [very young] kids what to do" and expect them to follow those instructions implicitly.
The producers had a group of schoolchildren (aged 3 to 10 years old) watch the Eddie Eagle video along with a presentation by a police officer on gun safety. While the children all appeared to understand the message that guns are not toys, when the children were left alone with prop guns (and a hidden camera capturing their reactions), they all proceeded to use them as if they were toys
(taken from wikipedia search of Eddie Eagle)

Doesn't sound like we can expect the kids to be Adult about things even after 'a course"....They are KIDS after all!