2 year old shoots dead mother in USA

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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]

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

 

[Juan Albion]

Dang it, you've given away the answer!

http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?315535-Guess-the-country

 

[vegster]

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.

 

[StonehamPark]

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

Nothing to do with the Gun laws, just look at Canada.

It's just the quantity of fecking stupid Americans that's the issue imo.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Sad, but just no surprise at all. They'll never change it though, it'll just get worse.

 

[Questions]

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

Good point. Then they'd need more guns.

 

[Stat Brother]

Her father-in-law said when interview 'it should have been ok the purse she had has a specifically designed compartment for concealed weapons.

 

[Tarpon]

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.

 

[goldstone]

An incredibly stupid woman.

 

[Questions]

Hey even a two year old has the right to defend themselves you assholes.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Nothing to do with the Gun laws, just look at Canada.
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In this case it is. Canadian gun laws are much sticter than they are in the US. In Canada the woman would not have had a concealed weapon permit.

 

[vegster]

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]

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

 

[StonehamPark]

In this case it is. Canadian gun laws are much sticter than they are in the US. In Canada the woman would not have had a concealed weapon permit.

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.

 

[sir albion]

I'd give the child at least 30 years

 

[albionite]

Her father-in-law said when interview 'it should have been ok the purse she had has a specifically designed compartment for concealed weapons.

No doubt a lawsuit coming for the purse maker!

 

[StonehamPark]

I'd give the child at least 30 years

The Chair is the only sensible option here.

 

[beorhthelm]

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]

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.