But the news from a Idaho is too much. It appears that a toddler shot his mother to death in a Wal-Mart. The mother, evidently an avid gun toting mother, decided to take her gun into the store in a special purse that had a gun compartment. The gun was loaded.
The baby was left unattended for a minute in the shopping basket, unzipped the purse and accidently shot his mother in the head. The baby is two years old!
The article quoted a friend who evidently was very upset that "anti-gun" types were "using" the incident to argue against gun violence.
Really, how crass of them.
Really, a two year old shoots his mother with a loaded gun in a Wal-Mart and it is wrong to use that in an argument against the insanity that is America's approach to deadly gun violence.
Really?
Kind of reminds you of the African American youth who was fooling around with a toy gun in a Wal-Mart and was shot by police. Or the Redding Police Officer, who left his service revolver in a closet without the trigger lock on and his three year old crawled up a ladder and shot himself to death.
All terrible. All accidents. All proof positive that America's obsession with firearms is dangerous and tragic. American shoot each other more than any other society on the planet. Many of the shootings are accidents. Statistics show that the person you are most likely to shoot if you own a gun is yourself or a family member.
We also have the easiest access to firearms than anywhere else.
Police shoot first and ask questions later because they have to assume that evey suspect is armed. And, coupled with racial profiling this provides a deadly atmosphere of deadly force being used with tragic results.
I happen to not blame the police at all in this. I know they are well trained. I know they take their jobs very seriously. And I know they have to protect themselves with deadly force because every suspect they must assume is "packing". And not just packing, but have no real idea how to handle and use a firearm, which is the most dangerous suspect.
Idaho, in a usual over reaction of the right, has legislated that practically anyone can get a concealed weapons permit, that guns can be carried onto school campuses; etc. They are making a statement that no damn federal government will tell them what to do, by GAWD!
Madness, sheer madness!
Look, guns are intended for one thing only, to kill things. They are not made to wound. Guns have no brains, no souls. They are tools, often fatal, to , if you watch most video games, solve social and political problems. They don't!
How on God's Green Earth, does a two year old shooting his mother solve ANYTHING?
Oh, I am sure I will get the crap that "we need our guns to defend our liberty". This comes from a population without mandatory military training, no draft, and the average military trained citizen from draft days is over 60 years old!
I served. I also was trained in the use of deadly force. I am over 60 years old, and I do not like guns. I have a couple guns, a starter pistol and a relic that might work. Both are locked up and not loaded. Both are only handled by me. And I am trained.
That two year was not. And the huge majority of gun owners today have NO military training at all. They don't know what a gun can do to the human body...They are ignorant, sometimes drunk, and very dangerous!
I don't care how many superficial trainings they take at the local gun range; like the instructor who was shot dead while trying to teach a frightened client to fire an assault rifle, that was on automatic and pivoted by force and blew him away.
We trained for weeks in firearm use and safety...weeks. We also were ordered to practice a certain amount every year to maintain our status; and I was a company clerk!
That deep resevoir of trained handlers of firearms are gone. We are left with a bunch of video gamers who thing bang, bang you're dead is fun. And everyday they kill, they maim, thinking it's all a game.
Any combat vet knows that is bullshit. Any trained soldier is told, even if they never see combat, what an M-16 can do. We had this simple lesson. A pumpkin was place 50 yards down range. It was explained how the bullet from an M-16 acted when it hit the human head. And then the instructor shot the pumpkin; and the entire back of it was vaporized!
And then he told us, with pictures, what the human head looked like when it was hit; same as the pumpkin.
I will never forget that lesson.
Here's a news flash for you, a bunch of untrained civilians have no chance against a trained military or police force. Americans, no matter how well armed, are not trained to fight the military. A squad of Marines could destroy virtually any citizen armed group, unless they were in their sixities. And most of us are in our late sixties!
In short, the argument that guns will preserve liberty in the face of a military force is crap. If we allow our government to get to that point we are doomed anyway. If we are invaded, we are so fat and out of shape we won't have a chance; they will take our guns from us and stick them where the sun don't shine so to speak!
What we really get are tragedies after tragedies. We get two year olds shooting themselves. We get kids killed in gang cross fires. We get children shot for playing with a toy. We get massacres. We get chaos.
I am looking for an argument. You bet I am. I am sick of this. I am sick of the whoop assed stupids ruling the argument. And the NRA is whoop assed stupid.
I am tired of the NRA throwing its money around and stopping gun control.
I am tired of crying.
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