Responsible Gun Owners Continue Shooting Kids To Keep America Safe

[billh58]

Time once again to check in with America’s Responsible Gun Owners to find out how the Second Amendment has been keeping us all safe from government tyranny and rampant crime, though not necessarily from ourselves or people we live with. Hope you can hear the freedom ringing — or that may be your ears. Use proper protective equipment at the range, will ya?

Let’s All Go To The Lobby And Reload

In Salina, Kansas, a gentleman who had just gotten a brand-new concealed-carry permit took his pistol to the movies because, as everyone knows from reading internet comment threads, the one sure way to make sure you’re not a victim of an Aurora-style massacre is to carry a concealed weapon. And happily, in July, a new Kansas law took effect allowing concealed carry just about anywhere without a permit or any mandatory training, because what part of Shall Not Be Infringed don’t you understand? Local TV station KWCH reports that about 45 minutes into the movie, the gun went off, as they sometimes do when handled less than responsibly. Witness Heather Myers told the station a man sitting about three rows behind her and her husband, Domenic, began calling for help:

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Small Prices To Pay For Liberty

In Chicago Saturday, a six-year-old boy shot and killed his three-year-old brother, Eian Santiago, while playing “cops and robbers.” The older boy had climbed on top of the family’s refrigerator and found a loaded revolver kept there by the boys’ father, Michael Santiago. Mr. Santiago was arrested and charged with child endangerment. He told police that he was a former member of a street gang and had bought the gun from a gang member “for protection.” A week prior to the shooting, Santiago had shown the gun to the six-year-old and told him not to touch it because it was only for grown-ups. Looks like Santiago’s abbreviated version of the NRA’s Eddie Eagle safety training didn’t quite take. On the plus side, at least Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal won’t be able to complain that this tragedy occurred because the boys didn’t have a father in their lives.

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In the most recent defense against tyranny, at least as we type this, a four-year-old girl was shot and killed Tuesday while riding in her parents’ pickup in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in an apparent act of fatal road rage. It’s unclear how the incident started, but the killer’s vehicle pulled alongside the pickup on Interstate 40, and the driver fired several shots, hitting the girl in the head. Police say they have a description of the suspect’s vehicle but have not yet located it. According to KOB-TV, one witness described a red pickup — apparently the vehicle the girl was riding in — repeatedly changing lanes to prevent a red sedan from passing. Again, very tragic, but the sort of thing that cannot possibly be prevented because Americans need guns for self-protection, and occasionally revenge against rude drivers. Or at least their preschool children. It’s all in the Constitution, wonderful document.

http://wonkette.com/595159/responsible-gun-owners-continue-shooting-kids-to-keep-america-safe

Mandated gun safety and responsibility are things which are considered an "infringement of rights" by the Second Amendment absolutists and ALEC/NRA/ILA apologists and gun nut crowd. Infringing on the right to live for our children, however, is considered a small price to pay for the Liberty and Freedom to be irresponsible while exercising their Second Amendment "rites" to their sacred Gun God.

[Faux pas]

1. K N R-ed

[brer cat]

2. I would have given this a K&R for the title alone.

The accounts are heartbreaking and imo so unnecessary.

Edit to add: I hope my cat doesn't see the picture at the link. He might decide he needs some 2A rights as well when the food doesn't suit him or the dog is being too frisky.

[hollysmom]

3. My Nephew in law needs a gun for work

He would not leave it in the car, so he hauled a gun safe to their new apartment to lock up his gun. She thought he should leave it out so she can protect herself, but he said it would increase the odds she would get shot by a burglar, so no. I like that attitude. They are about to have their first kid. they should be safe.

[klook]

4. Responsible gun owner

Nice to hear - he's keeping the whole family safer than they would be with a deadly weapon easily accessible by everyone in the household.