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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGuns in the hands of children...
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/11/us/florida-teen-body-armor-shooting/index.html?Teens shooting at each other wearing body armor. What could possibly go wrong?
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Guns in the hands of children... (Original Post)
Sancho
Apr 2022
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(2,968 posts)1. Found him performing CPR on his friend after shooting him in the chest.
Nothing like chest compressions to get the blood out of the GSW faster.
I guess if you think playing Rochambeau with a gun is a good idea, you don't think about stuff like that.
Kaleva
(37,857 posts)2. Hopefully the book is thrown at the owner of the gun
But I doubt that will happen
SmallFry
(349 posts)4. Read replies after posting.
The owner or where the gun came from wasn't even mentioned.
Kaleva
(37,857 posts)5. Saw a post stating the gun belonged to a father of one of the boys
Take that with a grain of salt as I made no effort to confirm that .
SmallFry
(349 posts)3. Where is the good gun owner in all of this?
Why do they not mention whose gun it is?
markie
(22,847 posts)6. the father
of the shooter kept the gun in the house for "safety"
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)7. Well, seems like everybody is well protected.
Except for the dead kid.
Frasier Balzov
(3,444 posts)8. Guns in the hands of the public generally.
Initech
(101,455 posts)9. Give an idiot a gun, don't be surprised when they do something stupid with it.
sanatanadharma
(4,046 posts)10. Youth fully acculturated in the American way...
Youth fully acculturated in the American way, the ninja stance of gun attacks and armored defense.
And the gun embodies both roles. Defense doesn't require being offensive.
It is all a disturbance of the force and we haven't learned anything since 1977.