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Gun Control Reform Activism

Loudly

(2,436 posts) Tue Aug 20, 2013, 09:01 AM Aug 2013

"I have nothing wrong with guns it's with this country was built on."

This grieving father is a knucklehead.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/20/us/michigan-boy-accidental-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

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"I have nothing wrong with guns it's with this country was built on." (Original Post) Loudly Aug 2013 OP

But the good news in the article is that these kinds of deaths are "rare" CBGLuthier Aug 2013 #1

I clicked on that related "play date" article Robb Aug 2013 #2

Wait, what ? eppur_se_muova Aug 2013 #3

There is a lot wrong with parents who leave loaded guns where BainsBane Aug 2013 #4

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)

1. But the good news in the article is that these kinds of deaths are "rare"

Reply to Loudly (Original post)

Tue Aug 20, 2013, 09:14 AM

Aug 2013

So everyone can console themselves when their child gets his brains splattered on the wall that it isn't all that common.

USA loves guns more than their children.

Robb

(39,665 posts)

2. I clicked on that related "play date" article

Reply to CBGLuthier (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 20, 2013, 11:00 AM

Aug 2013

... And those same paragraphs were stuck in that one, too. Word for word, identical copy.

Apparently it's really, really, really important to get the message out that these events are super rare.