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Robb

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Tue Apr 9, 2013, 05:01 PM Apr 2013

In just seconds, a boy, a gun, a death, then grief [View all]

(CNN) -- It happened in just seconds, by all accounts.

A pistol in the hands of a 4-year-old boy went off Saturday, killing Josephine Fanning, the 48-year-old wife of Wilson County Sheriff's Deputy Daniel Fanning.

The tragedy has shaken the town of Lebanon, Tennessee, a community just east of Nashville beside itself with grief.

Days after the Tennessee shooting, the intersection between children and guns emerged again, this time in Toms River, New Jersey.

A 4-year-old boy shot another boy, age 6, in the head with a .22-caliber rifle Monday night. They were playing in a yard, police said. The boy is alive, in stable condition at a hospital.

As the gunplay persists, lawmakers in Washington wrestled this week with the divisive politics of firearms....

Read More: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/09/us/tennessee-gun-death/index.html

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Is this just SheilaT Apr 2013 #1
So One of Many Apr 2013 #2
Do you think SheilaT Apr 2013 #3
I was asking a One of Many Apr 2013 #10
I have gotten heartily sick of the continued SheilaT Apr 2013 #31
Well One of Many Apr 2013 #32
Here's how I see it. SheilaT Apr 2013 #33
Access One of Many Apr 2013 #34
Inot only support stiff penalties for SheilaT Apr 2013 #40
one of many what? Skittles Apr 2013 #5
Really? One of Many Apr 2013 #8
Why should any one have access to guns? SammyWinstonJack Apr 2013 #35
so One of Many Apr 2013 #37
Do you mean just civilians, or law enforcement and military as well? n/t. TimberValley Apr 2013 #39
Go ahead, start the speech about Nazi's at any moment. JaneyVee Apr 2013 #36
Incidents like these are not tragedies but are the result avebury Apr 2013 #4
Bingo. TroglodyteScholar Apr 2013 #9
Leaving a weapon One of Many Apr 2013 #12
Are you kidding? TroglodyteScholar Apr 2013 #14
Unregistered One of Many Apr 2013 #16
Possession of an Unregistered Firearm (26 U.S.C. § 5861) TroglodyteScholar Apr 2013 #19
No worries One of Many Apr 2013 #20
And I did misread the registration law TroglodyteScholar Apr 2013 #21
That statue applies to NFA weapons... beevul Apr 2013 #22
You're right... TroglodyteScholar Apr 2013 #23
Registration One of Many Apr 2013 #25
Other than the wharrgarble of gun owners, what exactly did it lead to? Robb Apr 2013 #38
This message was self-deleted by its author One of Many Apr 2013 #17
+1 One of Many Apr 2013 #18
Look for an increase in accidental gun deaths too geomon666 Apr 2013 #6
All the adults should be arrested malaise Apr 2013 #7
People are arrested for negligence all the time. baldguy Apr 2013 #11
Mostly when cops are involved. You or I would have been arrested. n-t Logical Apr 2013 #13
Wish I knew malaise Apr 2013 #15
The Ten Commandments, er, First Ten Amendments of the Constitution must not be questioned. freshwest Apr 2013 #24
nonsense One of Many Apr 2013 #26
Nonsense? As if I didn't know that? You didn't see the sarcasm? Icon added for you. freshwest Apr 2013 #28
So we agree One of Many Apr 2013 #29
I was speaking the religious zealotry of gun fanatics. EOM. freshwest Apr 2013 #30
K & R !!! WillyT Apr 2013 #27
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