The High Church of Redemptive Violence is considered by some a cruel and capricious religion. But we are assured daily by its fervent acolytes that the deaths are all worth it to stave off unrelenting Evil, which would be even worse, even more heinous, even more unspeakable an atrocity than a 4-year-old shooting and killing his 2-year-old brother.

All hail the Rifle, the Gun and the Holy Missile. They Keep Us Safe and Free. Kind of.

Seems I missed some knucklehead objecting to reality.

coming right up in 5.... 4.... 3....

and when someone just needs killing, nothing beats a gun to git er dun.

So ban cars!

Move along, now.

But don't you dare ever allow the government to take her guns away from her.

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And who was watching the children while mother slept during the middle of the day? Was she sleeping something off, like this babysitter who claims to have slept through the sound of a five-year-old killing himself with a gun she left on a table? And unless she rented to a tenant, how could she not know that there was a loaded gun on the premises within the reach of a two-year-old?

...(T)he victim was shot...when his brother accidentally fired the .380-caliber Ruger pistol.


Well, it's nowhere near as big as the 8-inch .357 that ANOTHER two-year-old fatally shot a sibling with...


rocktivity

When is it fucking going to be enough for some people?

all we need to do is charge the parent with tougher sentencing laws..

and the mother tossed in prison for a couple of decades.

What other reason is there to leave a weapon in reach of a 4-year-old, than your desire for the little tyke to off his kid brother?

We need to treat such crimes as the acts they are: Murder by proxy.

I thought this was the thread from yesterday.

Seriously, this is the time when America needs a defining moment.

We just need to shut up and be happy with kids being knocked off, knowing that it's the price for freedom.

having grade school aged grandchildren, that day was a kick in the gut.

There will always be one-at-a-time deaths from stupidity. Whether it be guns or something else. I had a neighbor who took his six-year-old daughter for a ride on the back of his little totegoat...down a county road, and she fell off and her head hit the pavement...her brain separated and she died the same day, in the hospital. I was in the first car on the scene and I'll never forget it. People will always do stupid things, and guns just make it a hell of a lot easier.

But...if Newtown did not shake up this country enough to do something about our absurd gun culture and laws, then nothing ever will.

We are doomed...until we do something to change the kind of government we have.

This is today's. near Pittsburgh Pa.
.the other one was in South Carolina ...

Where will tomorrows be??? ...or will it be the day after tomorrow..?

According to them, gun fanciers never screw up, and folks who can't leave home without one or two are rational.

different tactics for forums where they are outnumbered. fyi.

I hope the next jury would peek at their Journal before voting http://www.democraticunderground.com/~Nanjing%20to%20Seoul

Thanks.

It's never the access to these murder enablers.

I don't call gun rights people pro-gun. They are anti-life or pro-murder. And if they don't like it. . .I don't care.

Sniper strategy. Hide in the shadows until they can take someone out.

I've been seeing jury comments where people don't know how to navigate DU during jury session since they say "there's no evidence this user is PPR'ed" EVEN WHEN I PROVIDE THE FREAKING USER'S TRANSPARENCY PAGE! I think DU Juries are being infiltrated.

Everybody knows the solution to gun violence is more guns!

If we took them away, they might never have a chance to be used on one of those "inner-city" types.

...so they shoulda been safe.

Leave it up to some unruly kids to jeopardize the life of an innocent gun.

From taking care of three little kids?

Or, more likely, the same kind of people who leave a fucking gun anywhere a child could reach it.

accessible to them?

No, never mind. Pretty sure I've heard every possible syllable from those stubborn fools.

.... properly secured if a minor enters or lives in your home.

That would create the criminal liability in cases like this (and be an accessory crime that if their home is searched for other reasons and they're found in violation could be chargeable then) without creating a mandate to invade people's homes and confirm that their guns are locked up.

--hard to accomplish, except with an idiot parent's gun.

Why do we put up with this?

This shit is happening steadily and constantly. WTF?