A menace to society
by digby
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| The little boy in the above photo was only five years old |
On a day when we had another campus shooting and lord knows how many other shootings around the country, it’s important to be reminded of the gun lobby’s insane propaganda Via TPM:
A firearms instructor urged parents to store guns in their kids’ bedrooms as a safety precaution during the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, Think Progress reported Monday.
“Why would you consider staging a firearm inside a child’s room?” Rob Pincus, owner of firearm instruction company I.C.E. training, reportedly asked the audience during a seminar on “home defense concepts.”
“It’s the first place I’m going to go!” he continued, as quoted by Think Progress. “As I’ve said…many times, if your kid is going to break into the safe just because it’s in their room, you have a parenting issue, not a home defense issue.”
At least 265 people under the age of 18 accidentally shot either themselves or someone else in 2015, according to a comprehensive study by gun violence prevention group Everytown for Gun Safety.
While the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that families who own guns keep them locked, unloaded and separate from ammunition, Pincus reportedly advised making weapons easily accessible in the case of an unwanted intruder.
I don’t think the parents of the little boy who fell into the gorilla exhibit should be prosecuted. Accidents happen and that was a tragic one.
But any parent whose kid shoots herself or someone else with her parent’s loaded gun should be arrested and charged. It’s blatant negligence pure and simple.
And this man is a menace to society.