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In article <3bgb3b$h7h@boris.eden.com>, jbarr@eden.com writes:
>In <3bfhud$1pd@fozzy.aud.alcatel.com>, Don Ashe <don_l_ashe@aud.alcatel.com> writes:
>
>>or any of the like. Where is all the careless irresponsible behavior you
>>are referring to?  
>
>Good question.  The answer is:
>
>(1) 12 year old boy in San Antonio blew his brains out yesterday, by
>accident, playing with a gun his parents had purchased recently for the
>family's protection.
>
>(2) 14 year old girl (maybe 15), shot in the leg yesterday in an accident
>in the classroom at Anderson highschool in Austin.  A fellow student, aged 
>15, was showing off a weapon he had brought to school from home.
>
>Next question?

Yes, why hadn't the cops arrested the felon (in incident 2) earlier?  He was
already wanted for an armed robber count.  The gun was not one he had brought
from home, but apparently one he had obtained on his own, from another criminal. 
This was not careless behaviour, it was criminal behaviour.

Why aren't kids blowing their brains out left right and center?  Why is it easier
for a child to drown than to shoot him/herself.  There are far more guns than 
swimming pools.

Maybe if parents would spend some time telling their kids that guns are not toys,
that they can't go in the pool without an adult, that there is nothing for them
under the kitchen sink and so on, and taking affirmative measures to protect
those too young to understand, our accidental death rate, from ALL causes, would
go down.  To single out guns is hypocritical to the point of lying.


Dillon Pyron
PADI AI-54909  USPSA A-26031

pyron@dvorak.amd.com