---In [email protected], <mdixon.6569@...> wrote :
OK, I know you've been waiting for my *outrageous* comment on this one. First,let me preface it by saying that I'm not a gun *lover*. I love the Bill of Rights. I don't own any guns. I wouldn't mind owning a Bushmaster AR-15 or a Kalashnikov AK-47. However, they are expensive toys that would end up sitting in a closet collecting dust. The ammunition is expensive and I Wouldn't want to be bothered cleaning one after shooting it. Now, my reason for justifying having a *gun* around the house is first, it's constitutional to own one or more. Two, people use them for various purposes, protection, hunting, target practice, collector item etc. In this particular case, the father was irresponsible for leaving his shot gun and ammunition in a location that a child could get to and should be held accountable for it and probably will, at least in a civil court, if not criminal court as well. In my community, it's illegal to leave a firearm in a location accessible to a child. That is why we have gun safes and trigger locks. Now, it wasn't the gun that killed the little girl, it was the 11 year old kid. He could have carried out his deed with a knife, a hammer, a rock or any number of ways. Inanimate objects don't kill, people kill with inanimate objects. Now since this was not an accident, the courts should take caution to never allow this person to own a gun again and if caught in the future, thrown in jail and throw away the key. That is in addition to any charges and convictions he may receive for his actions in this case. Here's the deal. The gun killed the kid. If the boy had lifted his arms and sighted through an imaginary gun and pulled an imaginary trigger an imaginary bullet would have left that non-existent gun and not hit the girl in spite of the fact the boy had every intention of wanting to shoot her dead. Instead, the boy lifted up a real gun, sighted down the barrel of that real gun, pulled a real trigger and an actual bullet flew through the air and hit a girl in the chest killing her. The gun killed the damn(ed) kid, face it Mike. From: "awoelflebater@... [FairfieldLife]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 9:52 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Here's a Good One For all you gun lovers out there, here is another opportunity to justify the reason for why we need them around the house: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/10/06/boy-11-charged-murder-girl-8/73433082/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/10/06/boy-11-charged-murder-girl-8/73433082/
