‘Young Guns’ special looks at the dangerous intersection of children and firearms

NYD News ^ | 1-31-14 | Sasha Goldstein

[lurk]

Ah, the children.

And those scawy guns that make loud noises.

As opposed to bathtubs which kill many more people every year and don’t make loud noises.

[Lisbon1940]

Guiteau is the correct spelling. After the shooting, as he was led away to jail, he reportedly yelled out: “’I am a Stalwart of the Stalwarts! I did it and I want to be arrested! Arthur is President now!’”

The Stalwarts were the corrupt wing of the Republican Party led by Roscoe Conkling. Garfield’s VP and successor, Chester Arthur, was Conkling’s underling. They favored political patronage and were bitterly opposed to Garfield’s commitment to civil service reform.

Garfield could have been a great President but served only four months, and just two months before the shooting. He might have survived the bullet but ultimately succumbed to sepsis brought about by his doctors’ negligence in disregarding antiseptic procedures.

[AlaskaErik]

How many children die from car accidents, pool drownings, abuse and and neglect and any number of other causes? A lot more, but that’s not newsworthy when you have an agenda.

[rickomatic]

To: smokingfrog 1. In 1865, a Democrat shot and killed Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. 2. In 1881, a left wing radical Democrat shot James Garfield, President of the United States who later died from the wound. 3. In 1963, a radical left wing socialist shot and killed John F. Kennedy, President of the United States. 4. In 1975, a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at Gerald Ford, President of the United States. 5. In 1983, a registered Democrat shot and wounded Ronald Reagan, President of the United States. 6. In 1984, James Huberty a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 22 people in a McDonald's restaurant. 7. In 1986, Patrick Sherill a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 15 people in an Oklahoma post office. 8. In 1990, James Pough a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 10 people at a GMAC office. 9. In 1991, George Hennard a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 23 people in a Luby’s Cafeteria. 10. In 1995 James Daniel Simpson a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 5 co-workers in a Texas laboratory. 11. In 1999, Larry Asbrook a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 8 people at a church service. 12. In 2001, a left wing radical Democrat, fired shots at the White House in a failed attempt to kill George W. Bush, President of the United States. 13. In 2003, Douglas Williams a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people at a Lockheed-Martin plant. 14. In 2007, a registered Democrat named Seung - Hui Cho, shot and killed 32 people in Virginia Tech University. 15. In 2010, a mentally ill registered Democrat named Jared Lee Loughner, shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed 6 others. 16. In 2011, a registered Democrat named James Holmes; went into a Colorado movie theater and shot and killed 12 people. 17. In 2012, Andrew Engeldinger a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people in Minneapolis. 18. In 2013, a registered Democrat named Adam Lanza, shot and killed 26 people in a Connecticut school. Clearly, there is a problem with Democrats and guns. Conclusion: It should be illegal for Democrats to own guns.

I propose adding this question to Form 4473: "Are you now, or have you ever been a registered Democrat"

[smokingfrog]

The doctors killed him. We need universal background checks for all doctors, & they should be posted on the internet.

[Lisbon1940]

Also it is a good idea not to probe with fingers inside a bullet hole.

[Future Snake Eater]

Is this one of those stats where a “child” is a 26-year old gangbanger?

[familyop]

Most of those “children” are adolescent and adult gangsters in big cities.

[Pajamajan]

I saw ads for this piece of s**t phony hit on the 2nd Ammendment all week on ABC.

I'm so sick of the MSM propagandists using psy-ops on the American people to help the would-be tyrannical government disarm us, so that they can control us.

They want to scare poeple into informing on their neighbors as to weather they have a firearm in the house or not- hence all the fear mongering and phony statistics.

( Of course they included teenagers and even young adults ,up to 20 yrs old, to bolster their BS statistic that a "child" is injured by a firearm every hour. What about gangs?-Not a word about them.)

Hey ABC-you bunch of lying sacks of crap-The number one cause of child injuries/deaths is auto accidents. When are you going to report on that, and call for all people to have their cars confiscated by the government?

Many children are killed in swimming pools-ban them- Have the government order people to cement their pools over.

All bicycles should be banned and confiscated too.

What about household cutlery and household cleaning products? How many children are injured or killed by these?

How about playground equipment? Children are injured by it every year. Obviously according to ABC- it should be removed.

What are people feeding their children? Obesity kills. Maybe we need refrigerator police to go from house to house to make sure the children are being fed properly?

America-How do you know what's in your neighbor's house, if you send your child to play there?

Are the knives, scissors, and cleaning products locked up? What will stop your child from heading straight for the Drano an rat poison?

And what snacks are your neighbors serving your children?

What if they contain transfats, and/or sugar?!
(Panic- Running in circles wildly waving arms in the air!)

Save the children ABC! Save us!(/s)

[Pajamajan]

Ammendment = Amendment (Pardon my atrocious lack of zpeling ability-forgot to hit the "zpel check".)

[Jack Hammer]

“Every hour, a child is hospitalized because of a gun.

Every other day, a child is killed by gunshots.”

Utter. Horse. Sh*t.

[ConradofMontferrat]

This is a Buull Ship LIE designed specifically to target what a PHILADELPHIA TV station, (I think it was an ABC affiliate) found out about the NRA’s Eddie Eagle program.

In an attempt to declare the EE program a fraud, the station put kids that had taken the EE program in a room with fake pieces. The kis found them, and RAN AS FAST AS THEY COULD to find an adult. Much to the astonishment and chagrin of the reporters.

OTH, the kids without EE were the ONES who found the weapons and started to shoot each other in the face.

This story here is HORSE SH!! of the worst sort.

“Telling” kids a couple of times to find an adult, and running them through the entire EE program are NOT the same thing.

NICE EFFIN TRY ABC, but we are NOT all low info voters, and we DO remember the actual case.

Just damn can commie pigs be annoying!

[JoeFromSidney]

No, the problem isn’t the guns or the kids. The problem is lib parents who want to be their kids’ BFF rather than parents. When parents fail at teaching morals and values, this is what happens.

You're right. It's the job of the parents to form the character of their children. If the children don't respect other people's property, their parents didn't instill that respect into them. The parents probably don't have that respect either.

['smith]

ABC is not a credible news source.

[Redcloak]

• Every other day, a child gangbanger is killed by gunshots. 

There... I fixed it.

No... Seriously. I fixed it. The only way to make that stat work is to count teenage gangbangers as "children". Like most violent crime in the US, these "children" are the victims of criminal-on-criminal attacks. The gun control laws these people moan and whine for won't have any effect on these crimes. Why not? Because these are criminals! Criminals, like the name implies, do not obey laws. Only those who wouldn't dream of firing into a crowd of teenagers will obey their silly, little laws.

[Frank_2001]

“Looks like we need to ban motor vehicles”

The Communists are already well along with THAT, at least in the centers of European cities, and it’s coming here, too. Have to save the planet, dont’cha know!/s

[Frank_2001]

The NRA should start filing lawsuits yesterday, if not sooner!!!! Do you know that some Commies actually think the NRA’s official position is that literally “everyone” should own a gun? I don’t THINK so!!!;)