Anonymous wrote:June 18, 2016 - So far this year, according to data compiled by Everytown for Gun Safety, at least 77 people under age 18 have unintentionally shot either themselves or another person.

http://www.centralctcommunications.com/bristolpress/article_25bc170a-35a3-11e6-85f9-d7a316a9d436.html

Kids used to learn to shoot at school. They were taught proper safety, cleaning, and marksmanship.

Bring back after school gun clubs and gun ranges.

Now only kids with parents who take the time to teach these things and have the land got a backyard range or the time/money to go to a range have access.

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June 11, 2022
8-year-old child shot in road rage incident

“I just really would like these gun laws to change too many innocent baby’s getting hurt or killed,” said the victim’s father.

https://www.newschannel10.com/2022/06/11/8-year-old-child-shot-possible-road-rage-incident/

Here is the guy who shot this child. Can we agree that a piece of shit like this has forfeited his right to have a gun?



AMARILLO, Texas (KWTX) - Police arrested Frankie Lee Haigood, 58, charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after an eight-year-old boy was shot during a road rage incident.

Nicco’s father, Eric, told KVII that he and his son had watched a baseball game and were heading home after watching fireworks when the other truck ran a red light and almost hit them. Fausto honked, and then Fausto told KVII that the other truck slowed down and fired shots at his truck, “hitting my son in the head.”

https://www.wftv.com/news/trending/police-man-shot-8-year-old-boy-head-texas-road-rage-incident/VVMPJBLWP5HR7OYG7G5GSQQBQ4/?outputType=amp

WINDSOR, Colo. (KDVR) — A child in Windsor was shot late Friday night after his father unintentionally discharged his firearm. The father, a 38-year-old man, had unintentionally discharged his gun that then struck his boy who was in the next room.
https://kdvr.com/news/local/windsor-father-discharges-gun-unintentionally-shoots-son/amp/

If you can’t handle your gun responsibly, you shouldn’t be allowed to have a gun. Seems simple.

Sadly Republicans could care less.

June 11, 2022
8-year-old child shot in road rage incident

“I just really would like these gun laws to change too many innocent baby’s getting hurt or killed,” said the victim’s father.

https://www.newschannel10.com/2022/06/11/8-year-old-child-shot-possible-road-rage-incident/

June 9, 2022
2-year-old accidentally shot himself in Dayton
https://www.whio.com/news/local/child-shot-dayton-police-investigating/Y7FBZVWANZH25JLT2VHIBYD3O4/?outputType=amp

Another day, another child sacrificed so right-wingers can play with guns.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WISTV) —
A pregnant woman was injured after her young son shot her while they were in line at a drive-thru, officials said. He did not release the exact age of the child but said the boy was younger than 10 years old.
https://www.wyff4.com/amp/article/pregnant-woman-shot-son-south-carolina-drive-thru/40254904

June 10, 2022
PHOENIX — Phoenix police are investigating after one child was shot by another in a Phoenix apartment Thursday night.

Police say two school-aged children reportedly found a gun inside their apartment. One of the children picked up the gun and unintentionally shot the other.

https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/child-shot-after-two-kids-find-gun-inside-phoenix-apartment?_amp=true

More children sacrificed.

Beaumont Police: 4-year-old boy dead after accidentally shooting himself in city's North End

https://www.12newsnow.com/amp/article/news/local/beaumont-police-investigating-death-of-boy/502-e203fdb5-73bc-4792-b3d1-a8fc8b9101a5

How many more have to die?

Look at this a**hole.

Police: Motorcyclist shoots at Jeep with child inside on Ronald Reagan Highway
Police say the motorcyclist shot a man and barely missed a young child.

A woman was driving a Jeep with her boyfriend in the passenger seat and the woman’s 11-year-old daughter in the backseat. She tried to pull over because the man was not feeling well, Schrand says.

In the process of pulling over, the woman allegedly cut off 31-year-old Grant Brown, who was riding a Kawasaki Ninja 1000 motorcycle. Brown then pulled a 9mm Glock gun from a bag and fired at the car, striking the man and barely missing the 11-year-old.

https://www.fox19.com/2022/06/08/police-motorcyclist-shoots-car-with-child-inside-ronald-reagan-highway/?outputType=amp

Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords commissioned a display of 45,222 flowers on the National Mall, memorializing the number of Americans who die annually from gun violence. The memorial is on view through Saturday, June 11.
https://bit.ly/3NzSl8e

Anonymous wrote:ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. —
Orange County Sheriff John Mina released details in a heartbreaking case on Monday afternoon.

Mina said that on May 26, a 2-year-old in East Orange County found a loaded gun and fatally shot his father in the back.

https://www.wesh.com/amp/article/orange-county-sheriff-press-conference/40207889

10-year-old Cleveland boy shot and killed by aunt in 'freak accident’

Cayden was in an upstairs bedroom yesterday afternoon at his family's East 77th Street home near Donald Avenue when an aunt downstairs accidentally fired the Glock into the living room ceiling. A cousin was apparently showing the family an extended clip that he recently purchased legally.

https://www.wkyc.com/amp/article/news/local/cleveland/uncle-says-10-year-old-cleveland-boy-shot-killed-aunt-freak-accident/95-39af0acf-edae-4b4f-8611-c1104bfda1ba

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Anonymous wrote:Americans aren’t bad people. We have our differences but love our children, right?

Why do we allow this?

It’s clear that in order to protect our kids and ourselves from gun violence, we have to vote for only Democrats. Republicans have made it clear they are not going to change anything.

We allow this because we no longer identify and contain evil. We blame social inequality for the symptoms of mental illness. We tell people with mental illness that they are fine, that society owes them. They are left to themselves, roaming aimlessly and suffering. This is done in the name of diversity and inclusion.

Wow you had to work so hard to blame this on liberals.

But, the PP is right. There is no sacrifice here. Sacrifice is voluntary. These are bad human beings harming other human beings. Liberals explain away and excuse their behavior and instead focus on the tool instead of focusing on the bad actor. Why is that? Why are liberals so ineffective in placing the blame where it clearly belongs. Guns don’t shoot themselves and kill people. People do. Address the people problem, not the tool problem.

Why are conservatives so bad at interpreting data. The US is a glaring outlier with regard to gun deaths. You don’t think other countries have bad people? You don’t think other countries have people with mental illness? You don’t think kids in other countries have access to social media and violent video games? You don’t think people in other countries have access to counseling and psychiatric care?
Conservatives would rather have children die than come to the obvious conclusion that we need to reduce the number of guns in our country.

Other countries don't have A) our culture and B) our demographics.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-gun-deaths-surged-35-2020-higher-black-people-cdc-2022-05-10/

"African Americans as a whole were at least four times more likely to be killed by a gun than the overall population, and 12 times more likely than a white person, the data showed."

"By raw numbers, there were 19,350 gun homicides in 2020, with African Americans accounting for 62% of the total and white people 21%."

It's a national shame that Black bodies are the overwhelming victims of gun violence.

Are you seriously arguing that AAs are the reason we have more mass shootings than anywhere else in the world. B/C the vast majority of mass shootings are committed by...wait for it...white men.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/

Mass shootings are generally defined as having 4 more victims. By that standard there were 12 mass shootings over last weekend alone.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/30/mass-shootings-memorial-day-weekend-taft-chattanooga-uvalde/

NPR says there have been 213 mass shootings this year alone with 27 school shootings. They also reported 693 the year before.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/15/1099008586/mass-shootings-us-2022-tally-number

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/24/1101050970/2022-school-shootings-so-far

https://www.thetrace.org/2020/09/mass-shootings-2020-gun-violence-black-neighborhoods/

People should be up in arms that these aren't reported more often.

Black Lives Matter.

I suggest we redefine mass shootings as more than 10 people killed in a single incident. That will reduce the number of mass shootings overnight.

I think it does make sense to redefine it as shootings not related to gang activity. These two have very different cures.

Why?

Gang killings are targeted retribution murders of other gang members and not mass murder of innocent civilians by a suicidal psychopath? But you already knew that.

What’s the difference between a “gang” and a “militia”?

I'm happy to count militias as gangs