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It's a sad thing to see a child die for no apparent reason.
Case in point:
This weekend, an 8-year-old boy was shot dead in his home.
The mother and her boyfriend said that a man intruded their home and shot the kid.
Now it turns out that the kid's 7-year-old cousin was playing with a gun and accidentally shot him.
Local Boston politicians are blaming the gun and the NRA for what happened.
Look at a few other points here:
1. The boy's sperm-donor father is a convicted murderer who is currently serving a four-year sentence for going on an armed robbery spree.
2. The boy's mother has a criminal record herself, as does the boyfriend.
3. The firearm in question was in the house ILLEGALLY!!!!!!
4. The gun was not locked up or stored in a secure location.
Now, does the NRA have any control over points 3 and 4? NO! That is up to the adults who have control over the gun. If you see a child playing with a real gun, loaded or not, wouldn't you feel some sort of urgency to take it away from him? Apparently they didn't. There was not one responsible person, adult, teen or child, in that house. Hell, after calling 911 to report the shooting, the adults rang up a pizza delivery!
And an innocent child pays for their negligence and stupidity.
And because of this, we law-abiding firearms owners will pay the price.
(Side note: I think a lot of my posts these days will have a song title as the subject header... sometimes you may have to Google the title to find out who did the song. In this case, I'll spare you the effort -- it's a little-known Roger Waters song that was released a couple of years ago on the internet, along with Leaving Beirut.)
Case in point:
This weekend, an 8-year-old boy was shot dead in his home.
The mother and her boyfriend said that a man intruded their home and shot the kid.
Now it turns out that the kid's 7-year-old cousin was playing with a gun and accidentally shot him.
Local Boston politicians are blaming the gun and the NRA for what happened.
Look at a few other points here:
1. The boy's sperm-donor father is a convicted murderer who is currently serving a four-year sentence for going on an armed robbery spree.
2. The boy's mother has a criminal record herself, as does the boyfriend.
3. The firearm in question was in the house ILLEGALLY!!!!!!
4. The gun was not locked up or stored in a secure location.
Now, does the NRA have any control over points 3 and 4? NO! That is up to the adults who have control over the gun. If you see a child playing with a real gun, loaded or not, wouldn't you feel some sort of urgency to take it away from him? Apparently they didn't. There was not one responsible person, adult, teen or child, in that house. Hell, after calling 911 to report the shooting, the adults rang up a pizza delivery!
And an innocent child pays for their negligence and stupidity.
And because of this, we law-abiding firearms owners will pay the price.
(Side note: I think a lot of my posts these days will have a song title as the subject header... sometimes you may have to Google the title to find out who did the song. In this case, I'll spare you the effort -- it's a little-known Roger Waters song that was released a couple of years ago on the internet, along with Leaving Beirut.)
