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One would have to think most of these are preventable if people followed safe handling and storage practices.
I guess it is just coincidence that most of these young shooters are male.
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This week a 2-year-old in South Carolina found a gun in the back seat of the car he was riding in and accidentally shot his grandmother, who was sitting in the passenger seat. This type of thing happens from time to time: a little kid finds a gun, fires it, and hurts or kills himself or someone else. These cases rarely bubble up to the national level except when someone, like a parent, ends up dead.
But cases like this happen a lot more frequently than you might think. After spending a few hours sifting through news reports, I've found at least 43 instances this year of somebody being shot by a toddler 3 or younger. In 31 of those 43 cases, a toddler found a gun and shot himself or herself.
So, help people secure them properly. Do we not put in sensors and alarms and so on to prevent idiot parents from backing up over their kids? Do we not now have a seat cushion type thing that alerts parents to the fact they as stupid and ignorant and self absorbed as they are, they left their child alone in a hot car?
Yes, coincidence they are male. The toddlers who are girls think not to play with guns? Think about what you are saying, just for a minute.
Most of these kids have seen their male role models lugging guns around, not their female role models.
Heck, its the New Redneck Pot Cupboard!
How do you know? You know for a fact none of the female parents used or owned guns?
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