Boy shot, killed trick-or-treating; two injured **Update #62

[Edwina's Secretary]

What a pity I cannot be as calm and rational as you are.

Give me a break. You are near hysterical on the subject.

Blathering on with the same tired old rationales.

Interesting to note that I get LOTS of opportunities to "preach"!

Plenty of people...including plenty of kids getting killed -- by firearms.

So what about the kid at the gun show? What about kids playing with daddy's (or mommy's) gun? What about the kid playing in the front yard when hit by a drive by shooter -- who just stole the gun from someone's home.

Dead is dead. You can rationalize the death of children all you want. It doesn't bring them back.

[Lady's Human]

Plenty of kids and adults getting killed by lots of things, yet firearms deaths make national news.The kid drowining in the bathtub just isn't as juicy a topic for the media.

Take away the tool and the death is just another obit. If there's a gun invoved hysteria takes over., and it's on headline news/yahoo/cnn/breitbart in an instant.

If it bleeds, it leads.

[Edwina's Secretary]

If it bleeds, it leads.

If nothing else shoots, get a gun.

[blue]

If nothing else shots, get a gun.

Or go the route the thugs in England and Canada went, get a long bladed kitchen knife.

If you had your way ES, that woman in St Louis would have been attacked/raped a second time. I guess kids are more important, I hate to make that assumption but you leave me little choice.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Yesterday five homeless people were shot to death in a camp beside a busy highway. All traffic was shut down on another LA highway because a man was brandishing a gun on the overpass.

And that was just on my way to work!

Sad, sad, sad.

[Lady's Human]

And by the FBI stats, yesterday firearms were used a few thousand times in self defense.

Sad, sad,sad, that people can defend themselves. We should really all be relying on the police..... even though it takes upwards of an hours for a response out here.

[RICHARD]

Sad, sad,sad, that people can defend themselves. We should really all be relying on the police..... even though it takes upwards of an hours for a response out here.

Call the cops out here, I live about 7 blocks away from the station that gave you the Rodney King beating, and you can wait about 45 minutes.

Now, if you get a car chase going, you can have about 6 cars, a chopper and some jail time in minutes!

[blue]

Plenty of people...including plenty of kids getting killed -- by firearms.

Even more die in traffic accidents, like a firearm cars and trucks are tools and are driven everyday by people with revoked or suspended licenses. Its not the tools its the lack of enforcement.

So what about the kid at the gun show? What about kids playing with daddy's (or mommy's) gun? What about the kid playing in the front yard when hit by a drive by shooter -- who just stole the gun from someone's home.

The kid at the gun show should have been better supervised, that was a tragic example of why firearm safety is so important. If you are a parent with firearms in the house, firearm training needs to start as early as posible. Children need to learn if they come across an unsecured weapon not to touch it and to find the nearest adult to secure it. The wrong thing to do is to make it a thing of mystery, that will only make the child more interested and determined to investigate. What about the children hit by a stolen vehicle, or a drunk driver?

Dead is dead. You can rationalize the death of children all you want. It doesn't bring them back.

Yes dead is dead and you can rationalize your fear/hatred of firearms using the deaths of children, thats not going to stop them from dieing.

A question for you, how many children are still alive due to the responsible use of firearms?

[RICHARD]

Dead is dead.

Ergo cogito sum of a beech just shot me dead.

Ergo cogito, not any more.

[sparks19]

But that's OK... because cars are used to get people around... even if the drivers DO use them to get around... who CARES if they kill thousands upon thousands upon thousands... cars have other uses so let them kill people.

funny how no one has commented on my post in the firearms thread about a woman to saved herself from a repeat rapist by exercising her right to bare arms after she was raped the FIRST time and police didnt do anything to protect her. but who cares about the lives lost because they couldn't protect themselves. Lets concentrate on the lives taken by CRIMINALS becasue they use firearms that they shouldn't have had if the laws were enforced.