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billvon
You have found 6 examples over a 10-11 year period.
In 2015, Christopher Ingraham of the
Washington Post brought us the headline that,
"American toddlers are still shooting people on a weekly basis this year"↱, and ... oh, shit, sorry; that's the
2017 headline, from yesterday. The
2015 headline reads,
"People are getting shot by toddlers on a weekly basis this year"↱.
How many people do you think would disagree about idiots and incompetency?
That doesn't answer the question of what to do about it any more than the rise in mass killings over the years has also seen a lot more people willing to acknowledge that one has to be sick to do that in the first place. For some reason, the sickness got close enough to people who had previously refused its existence as some manner of liberal excuse for criminals to have more rights than victims, and all that political bullshit. Great. So, now we recognize that homicide is kind of grotesque in this way, but what are we going to do about it?
Meanwhile—
IMHO Using examples of the actions of the mentally challenged or mentally ill as a means of abrogating other's rights is disingenuous on a good day. And simply dishonest on any other day.
—just what liberties do you so fear for that you would engage in such self-denigrating fallacy?
Really, you're not helping. Then again, that seems to be the thing about firearm safety: It's a nice thought and all, but no, not even the so-called "responsible gun owners" are actually willing to be helpful. These people
want the problem of firearm violence in society. The whole point isn't about the right to bear arms, it's about the right to kill people. And if this is the price everyone else must pay so that some people can feel their right to arbitrarily kill other human beings isn't somehow abrogated, well, it's not surprising.
I mean, really, we might all hope for appropriate resolutions, but—
IMHO Using examples of the actions of the mentally challenged or mentally ill as a means of abrogating other's rights is disingenuous on a good day. And simply dishonest on any other day.
—priorities sometimes have a way of making even simple statements about licenses and criminal charges disingenuous on a good day and simply dishonest any other. It shouldn't be a matter of hoping, but settling that question might abrogate someone else's right to arbitrarily kill, so we don't.
And it's why blustery sarcasm is pretty much all such bloodlusting self-interest has left. Because we do need to figure something out. And we do need to charge more of these incidents as crimes. But the big obstacle there are people like you rushing to raise straw men in order to remind us who the real victims are.
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Notes:
Ingraham, Christopher. "American toddlers are still shooting people on a weekly basis this year". The Washington Post. 29 September 2017. WashingtonPost.com. 30 September 2017. http://wapo.st/2xR3TQu
—————. "People are getting shot by toddlers on a weekly basis this year". The Washington Post. 14 October 2015. WashingtonPost.com. 30 September 2017. http://wapo.st/1Gf8rzJ
