Dry humor.
Sorry,getting numb.

If we all weren't numb by now, we'd never stop crying.

No kid's every going to find it there.

I do hope the woman who was shot is perfectly okay with her injury, because after all, the gun is more important than she is.

Anyone who thinks I'm serious need to see all the times I've posted I'm in favor of complete confiscation of guns.

In fact a very small percentage of Americans will hear this. If not posted, we may not have been aware of it.

Every single day several dozen people die from guns. Lots of suicides, alas, but plenty of "accidents", as this incident would be classified, and 30 or more outright murder by gun. Every single day.

I wish each and every gun death (other than perhaps the suicides) would be front page news for 24 hours, and would lead off the nightly news broadcasts. There are so many that a lot of other news would be not reported, but maybe people would eventually catch on to just how devastating the toll is.

Oh. And print actual photos of what people look like after they're shot.

And the deaths are just the tip of the iceberg. Although in this case the woman was merely wounded, which happens to a couple hundred people a day.

Even tho fewer and fewer Americans own guns, the number guns owned by Americans is going up... meaning that those who do have guns are more likely to have overspill problems, leading to more guns lying around the homes (and I guess cars) of those fewer Americans who still do own guns. Statistically, the rise in ironic gunshot incidents makes a lot of sense.

But the kid got to it first.

her own gun to be safe. Hopefully she has learned that lesson now the hard way!

Grandma needed her own gun for the kid to use.

I don't expect it to happen any time in the foreseeable future.

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1. The fact that gun-advocate Dems offer no sensible response to gun violence, other than to pretend that CCL civilians routinely stop mass shooting, shows that they don't take gun violence seriously. Further, they dismiss ANY proposed legislation that they imagine might infringe upon their gun-hoarding. In addition, they value their own imagined privacy more highly than the lives of innocent people slaughtered in the name of Gun Freedom. This likewise shows that they don't take gun violence seriously.

2, "Usless feel-good legislation" is an NRA talking point, routinely parroted by gun-advocating Dems who offer no real legislative alternatives and who clearly wish only to scold about the petty minutiae of technical specifications, thereby showing that they don't take gun violence seriously.

3. If you ask three gun-advocating Dems to define "assault weapon" in their own terms, you'll get four different answers that are only semi-compatible. All while scolding other Dems for, in their view, getting it wrong. This additionally shows that they don't take gun violence seriously.

Let's set some ground rules. If you're going to use "The Controllers" to refer to people who hope to reduce the number of gun deaths, can I refer to gun-advocates as "The Zealots?"

In any case, I've had this discussion with The Zealots many times over, and I know what you're going to say even better than you do. Therefore I have no interest in pursuing it, since the likelihood that you will offer something new or interesting is pretty close to zero.


Let me know about that "Zealot" thing.

well played!

no es nada

Every damn day something like this....

pure redneck, gun toting country. Even Grandma needs a gun while she chews her tabackky.

I kid you not - I've been through there many times.

As in, does having a gun in the house make people on average more likely to have exorbitant medical costs in the family?

Your gun finds its way into a 2-year-old's hands and it goes off, you get charged with a felony for negligent gun ownership. Same goes for the inattentive morons who "forgot" they left their shootin' arn in their carry-on luggage.

Six months in the Graybar Hotel and a $5,000 fine might make some gun owners a little more responsible.

The poor boy'll have to grow up knowing he put a big bullet in his dear ole' Grandma, hopefully she'll recover from the gunshot. On the bright side, Paramedics were immediately on scene. The gun is in safe hands and on its way to the hospital for immediate treatment.
But seriously, does anyone know if the Grandma is alright?

gun should not have been in the pouch in the car. Second, what kind of trigger pull was modified so that a two year old could activate it? The kid may have used his thumbs.

as these stories of toddlers shooting guns are in the news on an almost weekly basis.

East Gunistan.

. . . comes from a long family tradition of making hasty decisions.

I'm 46, and I know a lot of grandparents who are younger than me. Scary.

Naaaa! That would be crazy.

So, yes, we could do stuff. If the gun wasn't there, this wouldn't have happened. Why should you expect safe storage from the owner? They weren't asked to take a course, pass a test to get a license, or anything.

There will always be people who do stupid things with cars, but we at least try to train them and require licensing and some skill before being allowed to drive them. I don't see why it's such a stretch to do this with guns.

Under your philosophy you could say, "people will always violate traffic laws, so why bother having driver's licenses?".

Blame the child, grandmaw, car, traffic light...anything but the actual cause of the problem! Sometime you folks are so funny, it hurts to laugh this hard!

I'm sad they allowed him to get off that one shot. Surely there were enough of them to get together instead of just sitting there waiting to be shot.

good thing they corrected it - the kid may have been charged as an adult

Even in a Camaro though we don't know the year, 2 year old with stubby arms should be able to touch the front seat when strapped in...

Jail the ladies!

Irresponsible person leaves loaded gun around, predictability kid finds gun and shoots family member.

At least it was not an innocent bystander that was shot.

I think the sentiment that two innocent lives, regardless of your own higher educational climb, being lost reflects more on your own character than it does anything else.

Though I'm certain you'll rationalize it as something other than a weakness on your part.

A child that should have known better per the NRA. Respect the firearm! You are old enough to walk - so that means open carry!

Hope he does life for not obeying the National 'Rifle' Assholes claims to glory.