backwoods


Even though I keep my snot up my nose I wasn't aware it had a fragrance- so my snot personally does not stink (to me, in my opinion)

sharke

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.

To be fair, I thought you were talking about cases of kids getting hold of guns and accidentally shooting someone. But on a wider note, yes guns are dangerous and people have accidents with them. The same could be said of cars, fire etc. In 2010 there were over 33,000 unintentional poisoning deaths, over 26,000 unintentional fall deaths, over 400 boating deaths etc etc.....not to mention the over 80,000 deaths attributed to alcohol each year.   

Mosvalve


God Guts and Guns made America. Lets keep all three.

backwoods


Freewill stevestrummer. 

Why didn't an atheist stop it from happening :)