2 Year Old Boy Shoots Himself With Gun From Parents Dresser...NC, Mitchell County.
wlos.com/news/local/2-year-old-child-accident...Posted Jan 6, 2022, 8:27 PM UTC
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If only a good guy with a gun had been there to shoot the dresser.
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Need to stop a dresser ?
Send in the bureau.
(The dresser will be shaking in his drawers.)
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Child was alive and in surgery at time of article's publishing.
No charges yet filed against negligent parents.
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A) hopefully the child survives.
B) everyone please store/carry your firearms safely, or just don't have a firearm.
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“More guns will solve this problem.”
- the Right probly.
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There was once a time when the NRA was the biggest firearm safety training organization. They worked hard to promote proper, responsible firearm ownership for sports and hunting. Now it's a foreign asset for Russia.
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gun control was a GOP thing.. because of Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
The NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers Had the Weapons
Back in the 1960s, even the NRA supported gun control to disarm the group.
https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-support-mulford-act
In 1967, 30 members of the Black Panthers protested on the steps of the California statehouse armed with .357 Magnums, 12-gauge shotguns and .45-caliber pistols and announced, “The time has come for black people to arm themselves.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford\_Act
The Mulford Act was a 1967 California bill that repealed a law allowing public carrying of loaded firearms. Named after Republican assemblyman Don Mulford, and signed into law by governor of California Ronald Reagan, the bill was crafted with the goal of disarming members of the Black Panther Party who were conducting armed patrols of Oakland neighborhoods, in what would later be termed copwatching
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And after the passage of the mulford act there was an internal revolution in the NRA that turned it into a gun rights organization that had Reagan saying "from my cold dead hands" just a few years later
I don't know why people always leave out the part where the NRA supporting the Mulford act cause an internal rebellion that turned the NRA of back then into the NRA we know today.
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All these crisis actor toddlers shooting themselves and their parents.
The left brainwash them so young.
/s
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Freaking antifa aligned toddlers, infiltrating our playgroups and brainwashing the other kids.
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Totally normal country!
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Also in the drawer: a pack of matches, a lighter, a steak knife, firecrackers, and a bag of cocaine. I'm kidding, but the parents seem stupid enough to leave those things in reach of children.
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Are we doing one toddler shooting per day now? There was one yesterday in Texas.
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Yeah-where the gun was in the center console of the car.
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I can’t keep up
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Accidents happen but charges need to be filed in these cases.
If the NRA gave a fuck about there actual mission of gun safety they would be huge in pushing for lock boxes and public safety campaigns but they're too busy supporting fascists.
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That is the thing people assume “well that’s too high for a kid to reach” from having a kid of my own, they will figure it out! Our basement has a lock on it, the key is on a hook 7 feet up, first week of December guess who we found in the basement? Yup lil man figured out how to build a tower and climb it and get the key open the door and get around the barricade inside the basement stairs and was playing with a fishing pole.
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There are two times in a person’s life where the learning centers of the brain are in absolute overdrive. Between 2 and 6 and between 20 and 26. There are always exceptions.
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What a new year, are we going for one toddler with a gun a day for 2022? Bold choice, but not surprising from the good ol U S of A
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daddy should know better than to leave his sex toys loaded
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This happens way too much.
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So you know how parents used to have to sit down their kids and talk to them about the birds and the bees in the before internet time. It seems America is going to have to start sitting down and telling their kids about who they shot as a child because they were awful dumbfuck parents. What a conversation that will be that I'm sure won't permanently fuck people's minds
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Children sacrificing their lives to protect our second amendment. If only something could be done.
Parents need to be charged criminally every time this kind of shit happens.
I so agree
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The 2A blood god is thirsty.
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Does it ever go longer than that?
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Article said he shot himself in the leg and is in surgery
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as if nothing can be done besides hand-wringing
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If they're putting their guns in a dresser I doubt they'd use a safe. Something something "need it as soon as possible"
Bet they keep saying that even after this negligence.
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Oh I totally know that. My point is if you're hiding your guns in the underwear drawer you aren't really worried about gun safety, youre living in some fantasy world where if you don't get your guns .00000001 seconds faster you are already dead.
They're more worried about some ninja dropping into their house and cutting their throats while theyre fiddling with a gun lock than their kid finding the gun and shooting themselves.
I keep mine in my nightstand.. in a biometric fingerprint safe. It's as responsible as you can be AND it's still quick access!
Lots of biometric safes are really shitty for securely storing a firearm from someone who wants to get in.. See: The Lock Picking Lawyer.
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Gun locks are free.
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Like people acting like responsible adults?
Nah.
There's no distinguishing between responsible and irresponsible adults at point of sale; you can buy a gun online or at a gun show even if you're a felon or have a domestic violence conviction and would otherwise be prohibited from owning one.
That's not even taking into consideration people with no disqualifying history who then act irresponsibly, as these parents did.
You most certainly cannot legally buy a gun online or at a gun show if you are a convicted felon or have a domestic conviction.
Yes you can. Technically you're not legally supposed to jaywalk, but who enforced that? Just like who's going to enforce private sales, when all you have to do is say "yeah I totally asked and they said they were good folks".
It's not legal, but it happens; gun show sellers and online sellers are not required to verify that the person they're selling to is not disqualified from owning a gun. So they don't.
Buy a gun online without going through a FFL? Nope
Edit: typo
You have to meet with the person to make the exchange, but 80% of all Armslist listings are not from licensed firearms dealers, for example.
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Right, there's an assumption that people will be responsible with their guns, and that leaves us in the situation where people are free to buy guns and act irresponsibly until something like this happens.
Same for alcohol. What's your point?
Where in the article does it say these parents had a disqualifying history?
They didn't have any disqualifying history. That's what I said.
My point is that we can't just rely on adults to be responsible with guns because we don't distinguish between responsible and irresponsible adults when selling them. People are free to buy guns and then act irresponsibly with them and there's no way of intervening until something like this happens.
Maybe their should be?
In Japan they do home inspections and you have to do a class every couple if years to get a permit. Stuff is very regulated. But don't mention that or it's tyranny. And before people say home inspections are invasive, people do home inspections for all types of stuff already. When we have toddlers killing themselves almost every week maybe we need to rethink stuff.