Kid kills friend with 9mm and then takes a trophy selfie

Kid spends the rest of his youth in youth prison, and wishes every day that he hadn't had that gun. 

Gun rights activists proudly champion boy's right to kill his friend, note that the gun was not obtained legally, and cannot do anything about illegal gun actions.  Somehow sleep at night knowing that they are complicit in the murder of yet another child.

Responsible gun-owner kills two adults and two children, self

He killed two adults, one of which was his ex-wife. Then he shot four children, between the ages of 7 and 15; two died and the other two are in critical but stable condition.

Why do they kill themselves? Because they realized they have done something horrible, something that they could not live with for the rest of their lives. Something that, had they not had access to a firearm, perhaps they would have never have done.

Responsible gun-owner claims black person shot him.

Responsible gun-owner claims black person shot him. 

Gun rights = institutional racism.

3-year-old girl shoots her parents with a loaded gun.

The gun was purchased that day, and left on a dorm-room type refrigerator, in easy reach of the child ... loaded ... in a purse. After they were shot, the father put the weapon back into the purse back onto the refrigerator! And the gun was not confiscated?


 

Shooting at Pittsburgh Mall, Feb. 8th, 2015

Ohio open carry laws are restricted to whites

Man in Ohio Walmart picks up a pellet gun, is witnessed by someone who alerts police.  Police appear and shoot man dead.  Man was black.

When even the well-trained make mistakes

Have you heard of the tragic story of the 9-year-old girl on a trip with her family.  They stopped in to shoot some automatic weapons in Las Vegas at a shooting range called Last Stop, and it was then, when the girl was offered the opportunity to shoot a fully automatic Uzi machine gun, that she accidentally killed her instructor.

I have to wonder why, if automatic weapons are illegal, they are permitted to be fired in particular shooting ranges, but I imagine some state is somehow responsible.

Like the 8-year-old boy killed in 2008, this was completely avoidable.  Who is more responsible, the parents or the instructor?  Of course, I suppose we might say one horrible scarring accident every 6 years is to be expected.  Or we could just save everyone from their bad judgment.  The argument contrary is that we cannot legislate every problem to solution.  And it has some right.

Still, guns seem to be an area where sensible restrictions are easily available.