Priorities?

[billh58]

"Since January 1st, 2013 there have been 11 reported gun fatalities involving preschool children as the shooter. Ten more toddlers have accidentally shot themselves or somebody else this year. And this statistic represents only data for which a toddler is the shooter in a death (Mother Jones reports that 71 children have been killed by guns since Newtown)."

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"In April 1987 seven-year-old Michelle Snow was killed in Riverside, California by a stray lawn dart that was thrown by her brother’s playmate. These darts were part of a children’s game in the 70?s and 80?s involving large, weighted darts with sharp metal tips, designed to pierce a horizontal target on the ground.

Michelle’s father immediately began a campaign to ban the darts, arguing that anything less than a full-scale ban would be insufficient—after all, even if you were to ban lawn darts in your own home, nothing can stop a neighbor’s child from throwing one over the fence. The campaign led to an all-out ban in the US and Canada."

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"Now examine how differently our society treats guns in a similar context: On April 20th, 2013, a five-year-old Kentucky boy shot and killed his two-year-old sister with a gun that had been specifically manufactured for child use. The gun was called “My First Rifle”, a .22 caliber gun which marketed itself as “especially for youth shooters.” Instead of massive public backlash, the National Rifle Association (NRA) instead, days after the event, held its Annual Meeting where it explicitly marketed firearms and firearm paraphernalia to kids, including NRA bibs for children, ‘Youth Model’ firearms, and NRA publications focused on ‘Youth Shooters."

http://www.armedwithreason.com/debunking-the-guns-dont-kill-people-people-kill-people-myth/

The insidious influence of the ALEC and Koch Brothers backed NRA, and the American gun culture's blind obedience to their Second Amendment absolutism is the major contributor to the gun violence epidemic in our country.

Public opinion is slowly changing, and a new generation of sane and thinking Americans is beginning to see the American gun culture for what it is: obsolete and extremely dangerous.

[flamin lib]

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