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Gun Control Reform Activism

lark

(24,650 posts)

8. Very sensible and restrained response to this epidemic.

Reply to billh58 (Original post)

Wed May 25, 2016, 12:37 PM

May 2016

Any adult who leaves a loaded gun(s) out, and a person under 18 gets it and shoots someone else will be tried for either assault or murder, depending on the injury. 258 lives would have possibly been saved last year if this was law, or conversely the adults involved would be severely punished.

Seems totally fair and should decrease this type of death. Also, no infringement of so called 2nd amendment rights.

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Their 6-year-old was killed with a neighbor’s gun. A court just decided how much his life was worth [View all] billh58 May 2016 OP

So much sorrow from guns left laying around. riversedge May 2016 #1

Requiring gun owners to secure their firearms does not infringe on any rights that I can see. Scuba May 2016 #2

Clearly Senatore has suffered enough. Jerry442 May 2016 #3

No , NO Cryptoad May 2016 #4

do we really know how many deaths there are because of these 'accidents?' NoMoreRepugs May 2016 #5

gun lovers: SCantiGOP May 2016 #6

gun humpers don't give a damn about these tragedies Skittles May 2016 #9

Leave No Child Unshot --- NRA scottie55 May 2016 #7

Very sensible and restrained response to this epidemic. lark May 2016 #8