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bitflipper


I'm no gun expert, but isn't that rifle a single-shot bolt-action? Meaning it's not likely you'd ever accidentally load a round without knowing it. Even if you're 5 years old. 
I don't care if it's Kentucky or California, that's a clear case of parental negligence.

joakes


Wow, unreal. Luckily, this could not happen in Europe.

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trimph1


Well, I'm not trying to enter into any hoohaw here but, just look around at some other countries. The US is not the only country that has issues with this sort of stuff.

Mystic38


Lets be honest here, things like this will be repeated many hundreds of times a year in the USA... its simply how it is and nobody really gives a crap... if they did, things would change.

The degree of civilised control, regulation and use of firearms is clearly listed here in the link...click on the "total firearm related death rate" to rank and see what countries are equivalent to the USA..


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate

Colombia, Mexico, Swaziland, South Africa..... yup..thats where The USA ranks.

Mesh

JClosed


I really cannot understand one single bit why people even want to have a murder machine like a gun. I am really glad living in the Netherlands, where giving a gun to someone is absolutely unthinkable, whatever the age a person has. Gun possession here strictly regulated, and you have to have to pass a formal exam (and have to possess a membership from a organization that has a safe room where you can shoot) to even touch a weapon. I guess 99.9% of the people here do not even want to touch a gun if they would get payed for it. They don't like it and they do not want it. Yeah -criminals and police have guns, but the "man in the street"? No way!

Although gun laws aren't what this post is about, your comment can be debated and possibly proven to be incorrect. In a simple Google search, I found the following:
 
Nations with stringent anti-gun laws generally have substantially higher murder rates than those that do not. The study found that the nine European nations with the lowest rates of gun ownership (5,000 or fewer guns per 100,000 population) have a combined murder rate three times higher than that of the nine nations with the highest rates of gun ownership (at least 15,000 guns per 100,000 population).
 
For example, Norway has the highest rate of gun ownership in Western Europe, yet possesses the lowest murder rate. In contrast, Holland's murder rate is nearly the worst, despite having the lowest gun ownership rate in Western Europe. Sweden and Denmark are two more examples of nations with high murder rates but few guns. 
 
Full article is found here: http://theacru.org/acru/harvard_study_gun_control_is_counterproductive/
 
 
 
The truly sad part is, too many irresponsible people have posession of guns.

Mystic38

sharke

Mystic38


Lets be honest here, things like this will be repeated many hundreds of times a year in the USA... its simply how it is and nobody really gives a crap... if they did, things would change.

The degree of civilised control, regulation and use of firearms is clearly listed here in the link...click on the "total firearm related death rate" to rank and see what countries are equivalent to the USA..


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate

Colombia, Mexico, Swaziland, South Africa..... yup..thats where The USA ranks.

"Let's be honest," this kind of thing (i.e. children getting a hold of guns and shooting someone accidentally" doesn't happen "many hundreds of times a year." It probably happens about once a week, if that. Drink driving/reckless driving worries me far more. Here in New York, you can fly around an intersection at great speed without bothering to check who's crossing, kill someone, and the most serious charge the NYPD will come up with is "failure to yield." 


As for the rate of firearm death in the US, the figures are greatly skewed by the number of gun deaths that happen in large inner cities (with the nation's strictest gun laws) among thugs in street gangs. That culture is a whole problem in itself. Guns aren't to blame for young men who would actually kill each other over a parking space. 

23,000 accidental shootings per year in the USA and over 600 accidental deaths is being honest. Thinking that these numbers dont exist, however, is not. It is simply a smoke and mirrors denial mentality that believes that the numbers are skewed any more than any other country's data. The facts are that. Facts.
 
 
 

tom1


That study concludes that violent societies are violent
 
　
I'm going to have to write that one down.
 
I wonder if the study also concludes that nonviolent societies are nonviolent