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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 313 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
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onifre Member (Idle past 2979 days) Posts: 4854 From: Dark Side of the Moon Joined: |
Sad, I guess. But this isn't anything interesting really. Sounds like the two went postal.
- Oni
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 313 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
It's not clear yet:
The area where the rampage took place, known as Building 197, was part of the headquarters for Naval Sea Systems Command
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1433 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
as long as there is random (uncontrolled) access to guns there will be random (uncontrolled) use of guns on people.
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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member |
as long as there is random (uncontrolled) access to guns there will be random (uncontrolled) use of guns on people.
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1372 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined:
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RAZD writes: as long as there is random (uncontrolled) access to guns there will be random (uncontrolled) use of guns on people. australia banned assault and automatic weapons in like 1997, instituted buy-backs, and hasn't had a mass shooting since. fewer guns, fewer gun deaths. must be a coincidence.
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Tangle Member Posts: 9512 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
Just heard that there have been more Americans killed by toddlers than terrorists in the USA so far this year. 12 apparently.
One was a five year old that killed his two year old sister. He used a gun made for kids called 'My First Rifle.' That sort of thing has us Brits just plain bewildered.
11 Deaths in Five Months Where Shooter Was 3 to 6 Years Old Listed below are the 11 gun fatalities I found where a preschooler pulled the trigger (from Jan. 1 to June 9, 2013). Starting with a list of five toddler shooting deaths The Jewish Daily Forward published in early May, I unearthed six additional cases. This tragic, unthinkable event has happened every month, like clock-work. Jan. 10: 6-year-old playmate shoots and kills 4-year-old Trinity Ross, Kansas City, Kan. Feb. 11: 4-year-old Joshua Johnson shoots and kills himself, Memphis, Tenn. Feb. 24: 4-year-old Jaiden Pratt dies after shooting himself in the stomach while his father sleeps, Houston. March 30: 4-year-old Rahquel Carr shot and killed either by 6-year-old brother or another young playmate, Miami. April 6: Josephine Fanning, 48, shot and killed by 4-year-old boy at a barbecue, Wilson County, Tenn. April 8: 4-year-old shoots and kills 6-year-old friend Brandon Holt, Toms River, N.J. April 9: 3-year-old is killed after he finds a pink gun that he thinks is a toy, Greenville, S.C. April 30: 2-year-old Caroline Sparks killed by her 5-year-old brother with his Cricket My First Rifle marketed to kids, Cumberland County, Ky. May 1: 3-year-old Darrien Nez shoots himself in the face and dies after finding his grandmother’s gun, Yuma, Ariz. May 7: 3-year-old Jadarrius Speights fatally shoots himself with his uncle’s gun, Tampa, Fla. June 7: 4-year-old fatally shoots his father, Green Beret Justin Thomas, Prescott Valley, Ariz. At least 10 more toddlers have shot but not killed themselves or someone else this year (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here). In the first three cases, the shooter was only 2 years old. I also found nine instances where children and teens 7 to 19 years old accidentally killed themselves, a family member or friend since January (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here). Toddlers Killed More Americans Than Terrorists Did This Year - Opposing Views#Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
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frako Member (Idle past 334 days) Posts: 2932 From: slovenija Joined:
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well yea that's because they don't allow toddlers to have guns the only thing stopping a bad toddler with a gun is a good toddler with a gun. If the two sisters both had an uzi they could have given the five year old a bad case of led poisoning before he got his second shot out but noo the liberals and their crazy stomping of the 2nd amendment rights have it all figured out dont they.
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Straggler Member (Idle past 94 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: |
Toddlers kill people.....
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dronestar Member Posts: 1417 From: usa Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
Tang writes: Just heard that there have been more Americans killed by toddlers than terrorists in the USA so far this year. If true that more americans have been killed by toddlers in just ONE year than by terrorists in the last TWELVE years since 9/11, then there is only one logical action for politicians to take: INCREASE the already bloated military spending and NSA budget for spying on americans. Problem solved. (This message approved by the re-elect NY Congressman Brian Higgins and NY Senator Charles E. Schumer committee.)
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NoNukes Inactive Member |
April 30: 2-year-old Caroline Sparks killed by her 5-year-old brother with his Cricket My First Rifle marketed to kids, Cumberland County, Ky. This particular incident gives the whole game away. Nothing but evil is behind marketing guns to five year olds. These guys belong in the same circle of Dante's inferno as the guys who came up with Joe Camel. Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.Richard P. Feynman If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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ringo Member (Idle past 440 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
NoNukes writes:
I don't think anybody has to "market" guns to five-year-olds. There is plenty of demand. Nothing but evil is behind marketing guns to five year olds. A few years ago there was a segment on one of those American "news" shows, 60-40 or 20 Minutes or whatever, about a woman who goes around to daycare centers teaching gun awareness. She would tell the children, "If you see a gun, don't touch it. Go and tell an adult." They dutifully repeated the instructions. Then they were turned loose in a playroom with a real (non-functioning) gun. All of them, including the woman's own child, happily chose the gun out of the toybox, played with it, pointed it at each other and pulled the trigger. They knew how to load it; they knew how to fire it; they knew it was real. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. A little armament makes it even more dangerous.
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NoNukes Inactive Member |
I don't think anybody has to "market" guns to five-year-olds. There is plenty of demand. Apparently there is some impetus (like wanting to make even more money) to market guns to kids because they do exactly that. Despite not "having to" gun manufacturers do so anyway. Here’s How the Rifle That Just Killed a 2-Year-Old Girl Is Marketed for Kids – Mother Jones
quote: If the revolution comes, these guys ought to be first up against the wall.Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.Richard P. Feynman If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 313 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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If the revolution comes, these guys ought to be first up against the wall. But you'll be the first against the wall, being shot by kids with guns. (P.S. Are you another Douglas Adams fan?)
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Tangle Member Posts: 9512 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8
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Dr A writes:
(P.S. Are you another Douglas Adams fan?) Who the hell isn't?Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
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