NRA blamed for illegal use of a firearm?
Ah, the left. They always make for some interesting reading. Over at AMERICAblog, they’re talking about this story - about how a 3-year-old got her hands on a loaded pistol and shot a 6-year-old playmate, with a gun that was ILLEGALLY obtained by its owner.
Tragic? Most certainly. Avoidable? Completely. Funny thing is, AMERICAblog blames the NRA and other gun lobbyist for pushing for gun ownership. Obviously, that’s why criminals illegally get their hands on guns and this kind of thing happens.
Guns don’t kill people . . . three-year-olds do:
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett released a statement Wednesday afternoon on the shooting.
“It’s despicable. It’s sickening. A 6-year-old is lying in a hospital bed right now recovering from a gunshot wound he suffered at the hands of a 3-year-old. Why were these kids unattended at 10 at night? How did they have access to a gun, an illegal gun? We are talking about children here; children who are in very real, very immediate danger because of illegal guns. If this doesn’t compel people to open their eyes to the epidemic of violence caused by illegal guns, I don’t know what will,” Barrett said.
Three kids under the age of seven. At ten p.m. Alone. With a loaded, illegal gun in the house. Un. Be. Lievable.
Of course, the NRA will tell you this is just a necessary — if regrettable — consequence of the freedom to bear arms so that, um, people can have handguns to outfight the U.S. government in case it attacks its own people, or something. Meanwhile, a six-year-old sits in the hospital because of a shooting that looks like it could have been prevented about a dozen different ways.
He mentions it, but then completely ignores the fact that the gun was obtained by its owner ILLEGALLY. It was kept in the home ILLEGALLY. It was stored by the owner ILLEGALLY. How did gun control laws prevent this from happening? The bottom line is, they didn’t. A criminal illegally obtained that gun. He brought it home and stored it inappropriately. Then, he failed to supervise his children or ensure that they were supervised. All sorts of negligence was going on here - but none of it by the pro-gun lobby or the NRA.
If anything, this just proves that gun control laws don’t stop criminals from getting guns - but it damn well ensures that the rest of us can’t.
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