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Hove / Παρος
Apr 7, 2006
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Hove / Παρος
A two year old child has apparently shot dead his mother with a hand gun he found in her handbag while shopping in WallMart, presumably loaded and with the safety off. It's a tragedy but FFS: stupid gun laws + stupid people = needless deaths.

USA sort yourselves out!
 


TomandJerry

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Oct 1, 2013
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Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ;6737590 said:
A two year old child has apparently shot dead his mother with a hand gun he found in her handbag while shopping in WallMart, presumably loaded and with the safety off. It's a tragedy but FFS: stupid gun laws + stupid people = needless deaths.

USA sort yourselves out!

Try changing the Americans right on guns and there will be civil war
 




vegster

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May 5, 2008
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Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ;6737590 said:
A two year old child has apparently shot dead his mother with a hand gun he found in her handbag while shopping in WallMart, presumably loaded and with the safety off. It's a tragedy but FFS: stupid gun laws + stupid people = needless deaths.

USA sort yourselves out!

It's not a tragedy, its entirely predictable. If someone does a first ever charity sky dive and dies because the chute fails, that's a tragedy, if they have done several hundred jumps and one goes wrong, that's predictable.
 










Stat Brother

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Jul 11, 2003
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Her father-in-law said when interview 'it should have been ok the purse she had has a specifically designed compartment for concealed weapons. :facepalm: :shrug:
 




Tarpon

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Sep 12, 2013
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It's not a tragedy, its entirely predictable. If someone does a first ever charity sky dive and dies because the chute fails, that's a tragedy, if they have done several hundred jumps and one goes wrong, that's predictable.

Nah - not for me. A tradegy is an occurrence that causes great suffering/distress. I don't imagine her family/friends (and especially the kid when older) will suffer any less by rationalising how predictable the event was.
 
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Questions

Habitual User
Oct 18, 2006
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Hey even a two year old has the right to defend themselves you assholes.
 






vegster

Sanity Clause
May 5, 2008
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Nah - not for me. A tradegy is an occurrence that causes great suffering/distress. I don't imagine her family/friends (and especially the kid when older) will suffer any less by rationalising how predictable the event was.

It's not a tradegy either.
 


Tarpon

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Sep 12, 2013
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It's not a tradegy either.

Depends how you choose to define 'great suffering': the intensity of distress for individuals and/or the number of people distressed etc. I'm pretty sure it feels tragic to her nearest and dearest.

Oh...I get you :thumbsup:
 














beorhthelm

A. Virgo, Football Genius
Jul 21, 2003
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More guns per person in Canada, <5% less gun crime/incidents p/p.
That's the only way I look at it to be honest.

but the ownership is different, they tend to own hunting rifles and not allowed to carry them to the supermarket.
 


Tom Bombadil

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Jul 14, 2003
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More guns per person in Canada, <5% less gun crime/incidents p/p.
That's the only way I look at it to be honest.

Then i suggest you need to be a little more sophisticated about it but I think you're right in your instinct that the problem is not gun ownership, but attitudes to guns thats at issue.
 



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