TX Kindergartner Brings Gun to School — 3 Injured After it Goes Off
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HOUSTON (AP) — A kindergartner brought a gun to his Houston elementary school and was among three students injured by fragments when it dropped from his pocket during lunchtime and accidentally fired, officials said.
One bullet discharged about 11 a.m. in the school’s cafeteria, spraying fragments at the students, said Houston Independent School District Assistant Police Chief Robert Mock.
“Either some type of chips off the floor, or it could be pieces of the round that discharged,” Mock said. “They had some cuts and stuff on their legs, they don’t appear to be life threatening.”
Two 6-year-old boys, including the one who had the gun, were wounded in the foot, said district spokesman Jason Spencer. A 5-year-old girl also suffered a foot injury, Spencer said.
Images taken from Houston television station KPRC’s news helicopter showed three children being wheeled to ambulances on stretchers. All were sitting up and appeared to be talking with emergency personnel. Upset parents rushed to the scene.
Houston is the state’s largest school district with more than 200,000 students.
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Comments (214)
TheBeezKnow
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:56pmThe parent must have showed this child the gun. Why else would a five year old take interest or even know what it was? Five year olds usually like cars and trains…
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 3:08pmMy 5 year old was already becoming proficient with .22 pistols at age 5. Showing a child a gun and inspiring interest does not mean the child takes it to school. Showing a child a gun and not instilling gun safety, teaching and discipline on the other hand, causes bad things like this to happen. Same goes for adults who have never handled guns, actually.
Report Post »NuffSaid
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 9:58pmGhost, Exactly my thought when I heard this story. We always had guns in the house when we were kids. My grandmother kept a loaded .45 in her glove box of the old Chrysler.
AN BEEZ, unfortunately the shooter learned respect and how to handle a weopon from it’s parents, That’s the problem. No kid of mine would have ever wounded 2 innocent bystanders
Report Post »Jscools
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:56pmWe should ban cars and pools as well because they kill children a lot more than guns. In fact pool drownings are top.
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:56pm@jdog777
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:48pm
‘I guess I am missing the point? I am comparing US crime statistics to Mexico and S. America.’
Why? Do you think we are more like Colombia than like Canada, Great Britain, or France?
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 3:06pmIf you go to rural and suburban American and collect gun crime statistics, where gun ownership is very high, you’ll find hardly any crime whatsoever committed with guns. In fact, the crime rates in both locals are about equivalent to the violent crime rate in Switzerland, another heavily armed and low crime area.
If you go to urban America, you’ll find staggering gun crime and a mostly disarmed population.
Ask yourself why sometime. You may not like the answer, and many times the truth can well piss us off and throw us off of our assumptions and ideologies.
Report Post »bsq
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 4:54pmBaikonur…Did it ever occur to you that large numbers of us don’t WANT to be like Canada, Great Britain, or France? Canada, where in certain locations, a pastor cannot read from the Old Testament without being arrested for hate speech. Great Britain where violent crime (even “gun” crime) has been steadily on the rise since they took away gun rights from ordinary citizens. And France? What can I say that hasn’t already been said. The point is that the US has, in the past at least, enjoyed greater personal freedom than any other nation on earth. With this freedom comes responsibility. The stupid,ignorant, and just plain bad will always be with us. It’s time we started to hold people personally responsible for their actions instead of trying to legislate our way into some mythical risk free utopia. This child’s parent(s) need to be held criminally liable for this. Leave the rest of us alone!
Report Post »David, the Constitutional Libertarian
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:56pmThat’s a school, it looks like a prison complex. LOCKDOWN at North Houston elementary! Coming to you on the MSNBC weekends.
I have noticed a recent development over at MSLSD, they had a special on un licensed contractors ripping people off and not being PROPERLY licensed.
Hmmmm, you will DIE or be ripped off without the big government is the vibe I am getting.
Report Post »Zcat
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:53pmI watch the video all i cafn say is go figure! Maybe black panthers will show up too!
Report Post »snidley-whiplash
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:52pmI Love Section 8 Housing
Report Post »Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:36pm
We should ban guns.
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Sec8
Hear about the subway stabbing? Man stabs woman in the head with a PENCIL.
We should ban pencils too as dangerous………………………
Your an idiot like obama
audaxrex
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 8:39amclearly, with your (or should I say ‘you’re’?) spelling, you have not had much experience using one for writing…
Report Post »Someone made the remark that when you drive, you have to register your car. When you shoot a deer, you need a license. You think a handgun, which is designed to kill and be easily hidden, needs no permit and its user needs no license?
‘course, the Constitution can be interpreted as saying that guns should be allowed so that the government can be kept in line. That sounds pretty close to saying it’s okay to shoot people you disagree with. What about the dead person’s rights to life and liberty?
Then again, they WERE talking about flintlock muzzle-loaders back then. You got ONE shot, if you‘d kept the powder dry and the target hadn’t ducked in the long second between flash and detonation… a pencil probably was more dangerous back then.
Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:51pmThe 5 and 6-year-old’s will be able to tell their grandchildren, “When I was just out of my toddler years, me and some friends at school got shot from a gun this other kid had. Man, those were the good old days. These days you kids get shot at while you’re still in the womb!”
Report Post »John 3:16
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:51pmI‘m surprised it wasn’t a shotgun to support the new ATF regulations on shotguns. The media sucks as does the Obama Admin.
Report Post »Secessionwaslegal
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:49pmHere comes the gun control crowd —with the DOJ—to shove gun control down our throats while not holding the incometent parents responsible.
Report Post »Beyond
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:42pmHope the parents are arrested and charged with crime for stupidity
Report Post »Guerrino_P
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:42pmThat kid is a true gun lovin’ American!
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:40pmI think all kindergadeners should be able to bring guns to school. Otherwise, how could we have prevented this tragedy?
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:56pmIt’s really a telling thing about your soul that you engage in such cackling blood dancing as the story is being reported and real people are still being treated for real harm. How inhuman. I’d advise perhaps learning some shame, but I fear that shame and responsible behavior suggestions would fall on deaf ears.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:39pmMaybe like Denny’s they ran out of maple syrup for lunch. Looks like mom’s live in “friend” left his gun out when they were doing crack last night.
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:47pm@teddrunk
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:39pm
@Looks like mom’s live in “friend” left his gun out when they were doing crack last night.
Ted, please share the intimate details of your life with your psychiatrist. It is disturbing when you try to use the Blaze as a free therapy service.
We are not socialists here, and will not provide free counseling.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 3:10pmWithout that gun, how will mom’s “live in” friend hold up the 7-11 tonight?
Report Post »mavsfan75
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:37pmyep..here we go…they’ll be combing the news looking for every gun related issue..then say SEEEEE we told you guns need to be outlawed! lets find some stories where guns saved lives and prevented crimes and flood the web with THOSE! Sic Semper Tyranis!
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 4:20pmStatistically the percentage of crimes that were thwarted as a result of the victim having a weapon is abysmal.
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:37pmPeople, when will you look at violent crime statistics in Canada and Western Europe and compare them to the same rates in the US? There is no way getting around this.
Report Post »jdog777
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:48pmI guess I am missing the point? I am comparing US crime statistics to Mexico and S. America. It seems gun laws and violent crime correlate. Gun Laws = violent crime. Shall we continue to cherry pick?
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:49pmI wouldn‘t trade it for anything and I’m sure before it’s all over with, you’ll be crying for some help from someone with weapons, if you live that long, always happens.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:54pmAh, statistics.
Well since you wish to play that game then, how about looking up the statistics of gun crime in rural and suburban areas compared to urban areas? How about looking up statistics on the victims and perpetrators, and tell me sir statistician, what do you find? Compare the very negligible gun crime statistics in Switzerland with gun crime statistics in *rural or suburban America* and tell me what you find (hint, they’re the same)? Try hard and get back to us with your results.
It’s not guns, it’s not statistics, it’s culture. There are a couple of major cultures conflicting in these united States right now. One of them seems to be highly prone to irresponsibility, bad decisions making, rampant fatherless families and prone to amazing amounts of self inflicted violence. We see stories all the time, not just on the Blaze, but across the national news.
Since, you know, you wanted to play the statistics game, well, there you go.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:58pmOf course population numbers and illegal aliens would skew those statistics now would they? Maybe we should incorporate some of their draconian immigration laws to know who is living in the country. Also you may want to take a look at statistics on Polizei brutality lawsuits in Germany. There are none.
Report Post »RedPillPatriot
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 10:10pmYou know Baikonur
Gun crime was very very low in Nazi Germany too after they took all the weapons! except for the kind perpetrated by the Gestapo! but I guess that doesn’t matter to you. Also it worked out great for Chinese, and Russians as well! Isn’t gun control great! It sure stopped the guy in the Netherlands a few weeks ago at the shopping mall, and the dude who wasted all the kindergartners in Scotland. It must be nice being a liberal and thinking that your ideas are a cure all and then forcing them on others. This could have all been averted if they had just aborted these children in the first place! that would be fine wouldn’t it!
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:35pmLOL–chickens come home to roost
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:50pmYou’re laughing and mocking because a child hurt other people? What kind of person are you?
Report Post »drago
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:30pmI’ll refrain from comments based on observations of the adults outside, and the kids on stretchers……
Report Post »RedPillPatriot
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:38pmYeah, it gets dark in Houston at around 10 am.!
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 3:10pmI would normally agree that perhaps we should worry more about the injuries however they said they were flesh wounds and also nowadays if you get a splinter in you finger ambulances are called and the kid is carted off laughing on a cart.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:29pmJust sounds like a gang-banger getting an early start to his career.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:49pmsounds like the kid has gang-bangers
Report Post »for parent or ‘s
EP46
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:28pmDon’t know about this one…but watch for more and more ‘gun’ stories while they continue to try and take away our guns. They will sacrifice anyone to get to use a crisis to support their agenda.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 4:15pmSo you are suggesting that this was a leftist set-up to make gun owners look irresponsible? Really? It seems to me you doing a good job of that without any help.
Report Post »rabblechat
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:28pmJdog- They must not of had the “gun free zone” sign at the entrance where this kid goes in the school.
Report Post »If they would of just had a sign at the right place this never would of happened…
jdog777
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:40pmrabblechat… EXACTLY. Maybe they we need to dump about $30billion more at the public school system to insure these kids can read the “gun free zone” signs. I just know that the sign would have caused the kid to check his gun in a the front desk.
Report Post »rgranger
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 5:18pmRABBLECHAT, They can’t read, I mean that in all earnest. My wife teaches in a “Title 1” school, most of the 4,5,6th graders don’t read and write as well as my 6 year old. More of that hope and change that big brother has been heaping on the black man for the last 60 years. When I was 6, 49 years ago in Houston, there were a lot of the blacks that dressed nicer than i did. Their parents wore nice dresses and suites. One of the Handymen that worked in the apartments we lived, often came by on off days and he was dressed very well and very, very conversant. I am disheartened a the change that Blacks have gone though, it hasn’t been positive.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:27pmFalse alarm, another umbrella.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 3:07pmI suppose you mean a pocket umbrella.
Report Post »rabblechat
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:25pmwhy is it always “the gun just went off”? Unless we are talking about a firearm that was made 40+ years ago all modern firearms have safeties built in to protect against accidental discharge especially from being dropped. Its far more likely that the kid or some other kid pulled the trigger. The kid probably hit the trigger when he tried to pull it out of his pocket and then dropped it.
Report Post »jdog777
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:37pmit begs the question…. what type of gun was it. If it had a hammer… it didn’t just go off.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:50pmWhen the serial number was filed off so was the safety.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:25pmClassic!
You couldn’t write this stuff, folks.
Another excuse for the lunatic left to implement legislation to “protect even the most moronic amongst us”.
Report Post »jdog777
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:23pmHow could this have happened with all the strict gun laws that prohibit children and adults alike from bringing guns to school??
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:39pmCould the parent or the kid read the Law??
Report Post »jdog777
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:42pmBanjarmon… fair question. I suspect the kid reads better than the parent.
Report Post »KenInIL
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 4:47pmThis shows the need of a law class and gun handling classes at the kindergarten level. They certainly have no need for classes in homosexual acts at this level like the federal govt wants.
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 5:08pmAgain proving we don’t need more laws; we need enforcement of those already on the books.
Report Post »rgranger
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 5:13pmJDOG777 @ My wife teaches 4th grade in a similar type school, i have seen the papers that she brings home, my girl in kindergarten can spell better than most of the kids in her 4th grade class.
Public education has created a horde of people that will never be “high functioning adults… perma-welfare and always voting for the Obamas of the world, unless we restore some of the original limitations on voting and selection of Senators.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 7:05pmMEET THE PARENTS .
Report Post »The answer is there .
ozchambers
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 9:42pmGreat point! I bet if they made JUST ONE MORE LAW that would do the trick!! DO IT FOR THE CHILDREN!!!
Report Post »The Big Pickle
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 12:32am@ RGRANGER
The problem isn’t the public schools, it’s the demographics of the public schools.
Doesn’t anybody else find it peculiar that back when American public schools were practically all White they were the best public schools in the world. Then they desegregated the schools and bombarded them with an influx of people that aren’t mentally capable of handling the academic challenge of reading, writing and arithmetic.
The teachers haven’t changed, the basic concepts of language, math and science haven’t changed….only the demographics have changed.
Think about it!
Report Post »ginsberg
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:22pmWhoever left this gun where a child could easily find it…loaded even…should never be allowed to have a gun again.
Report Post »jdog777
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:24pmExactly how do we enforce that??
Report Post »IvanK
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:34pmYou can tell by the crowd that these must be uneducated redneck racist teaparty types…
I wonder is Holder is going to investigate this? Doubtful – These are “his people”!
BTW, anyone notice this looks like South African village compound?
MODEL82A1
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:34pmTime to ban all guns…. or should it be all kids? Now I’m confused.
Report Post »Ballgame
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:34pmOr was it a dysfunctional parent that doesn’t give a crap less what his/her kids are doing. It’s not their job to raise their kids. That’s the governments job.
Hmmmm wonder if it was a registered hand gun? I assume it was a hand gun.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:35pmThat would be because of stupid irresponsible parents. Along with the rights the 2nd Amendment guarantees us – there is a great responsibility. If you are unable or unwilling be bear the latter you should NOT exercise the former.
There is no possible excuse/reason/explanation for such a young child to have access to a weapon. Period. End of story. The adult who allowed this to happen should be charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a count of child endangerment for every child in the area and a class A felony charge of STUPID!
Report Post »I Love Section 8 Housing
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:36pmWe should ban guns.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:44pmThe gun should have had a lock on it. They make those, you know.
Report Post »snidley-whiplash
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:48pmyou can’t enforce STUPID!
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:48pmI Love Section 8 Housing
We should ban all stupid people. That should take care of all the liberals.
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:48pmanyone else play guess the race before watching the video???
for some reason i always win that game
krumbruce
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:49pmIn Texas they are responcible for it. Their gun was used to shoot little children and the law will make them suffer for it.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:51pm82dAirborne~
You just don’t put up with crap OR excuses for crap, do you?
Report Post »Where you were trained, they teach being ready for any situation at any level. (Darn it — kinda puts the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts to shame!)
Showtime
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:53pmGinsberg, that’s a Socialist opinion. Not Constitutional.
Report Post »woodyb
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 2:57pm@ 82NDAIRBORNE –
You make a good point. ALONG WITH OUR RIGHTS, COMES RESPONSIBILITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »KOCHLEFFEL
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 3:13pmNo surprise just look at the parents it explains it.
SpunkyGal
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 3:14pmI bet the gun was black market.
Report Post »I Love Section 8 Housing
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 3:20pmWell if you‘re going to ban stupid then you’d better lock up all those right wing christians who love Jesus AND money. Not only was the whole basis of Jesus’ teachings anti-money and power but if you guys saw Jesus today, your first thought at his appearance would be “terrorist”
sorry but he wasn’t a blond, blue-eyed white guy. It’s hypocritical to love Jesus and money.
Luke 18:25 baby! Jesus was a liberal. All you money-worshippers are on your way to hell.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 3:20pmIncredible irresponsibility on the part of whomever is this Childs parent/care giver.
Glad no child was killed, thank GOD for that.
Report Post »@Showtime $ @82nd………Good afternoon patriots.
godlovinmom
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 3:24pmnot only do you have to worry about what the teachers are teaching your children…you definetly have to worry about the kids, and what they do…NO WAY would I send my child to public school…one never knows whats coming down!
Report Post »robstoddard
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 3:56pmWhen I was a child, my father took me out shooting…. I think from the age of 3 on. The guns were always available, and ammunition was in the drawer below. My brother and I never even dared to touch the guns. We knew what they could do, and had respect for their power. The problem with today’s kids is that they never get a chance to shoot these guns themselves, they always see them on TV. Eventually, they bring them to school and are generally idiots with them.
This goes to show that parents need to teach their little ones respect for guns… but they fail to do so.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 3:57pm@BetterDays
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 3:20pm
Incredible irresponsibility on the part of whomever is this Childs parent/care giver.
Glad no child was killed, thank GOD for that.
Report Post »@Showtime & @82nd………Good afternoon patriots.
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Good afternoon to y’all, too.
(Betterdays, I fixed it for you.)
MrBigBillyB
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 4:05pmSection 8
Ummm…you lack of knowledge is showing. You want to refer to Luke 18:25, but let‘s take into account Matthew’s version of the same incident in 19:23-26. According to this, with God, all things are possible. Let‘s also look at Jesus’ “liberal” tendencies in Matthew 26:6-11. Your “liberal” friends can be found in vs. 8-9, “Why this waste?” they asked. “This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor.” Very liberal thinking, don’t you agree? And yet your “liberal” version of Jesus said, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me.” Jesus did not come to this Earth with the sole purpose of feeding the hungry or giving money to the poor. He had compassion for them, but that was not why he was here.
Jesus was not anti-money. He simply said that that is not where our trust should be. He never condemned anyone for simply being rich. He condemned people who loved money more than God. There is also no condemnation for people who are in positions of power simply because they have the power. Please let me know what scriptures support such a bizarre claim. You won’t find it.
But thanks for the effort.
Report Post »ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 4:09pmThe Second Amendment protects a small child’s right keep and bear arms. The leftist commies want to take our guns away — of course they do! All of NO-bama and all his thugs! Why? Because they want to keep us weak! They don’t want our pre-schoolers to be able to defend themselves!
This is a bunch of B.S.!
Look! It is impossible to take all the guns from criminals, just look in Washington DC where handguns were banned for 30 years, and yet the police continued to confiscate thousands of guns a year from the criminals who still had them!
All gun laws do is take guns out of the hands of law abiding toddlers!
GOD BLESS THE USA!
Report Post »chfields62
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 4:13pm@82dAirborne Couldn’t have said it better myself!! parents belong in jail………Unfortunately, there’s nothing that can be done about stupidity……….Thankfully, no one was injured too seriously……
Report Post »bsq
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 4:40pmThis is in Northeast Houston. This a very predominantly minority area of town. Looks to be near or in the 5th ward. This is gang territory to the max. The likelihood that this gun was taken from a “legitimate” gun owner is exceedingly slim.
Report Post »MrBigBillyB
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 4:58pm@Zombie,
What a strange argument you make via your sarcasm. So your point would be that since there is a chance for the abuse of a freedom, that freedom should be removed? That is an odd position to take.
Since the freedom to drink alcohol could lead to the death of innocents via drunk driving, which freedom do you recommend removing? Alcohol, or driving?
Report Post »Searreigh
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 5:05pmIt’s not REAL school, it’s Black school.
Report Post »rgranger
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 5:09pmBSQ @ It is a predominantly “purple” neighborhood. Yeah, I did notice the lack of “white, Christian, tea party, conservative” in the title, which limits the options.
On a side note, I don’t care if Government is able to ensure that not one criminal will have a gun, I want a gun to protect myself from the Government :) I just wish we could have big ones like in Libya mounted to my redneck truck!
Report Post »ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 5:11pmActually, I’m having a laugh. My views on gun control are very conservative.
Report Post »Cesium
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 5:13pm@JDOG States need to strictly regulate hand guns… We don’t make them illegal… it is our right to bare arms… but you need to prove you are competent just like with a drivers license
Report Post »MrBigBillyB
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 5:33pm@Zombie.
Fair enough, it’s hard to tell in the forums sometimes. And I have heard a lot of arguments along those lines from people who want more gun control. It always baffles me because guns seem to be the only thing they feel is the issue. As if they believe that if we had gun control laws there would be no more violent crime and no accidental deaths.
Report Post »EXDEM.
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 6:25pmWe need to ban guns from returning military members from war zones. those people have lots of mental health issues.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 7:21pmI still remember when I was a young kid, we weren’t expelled from school if we played cowboy & Indian with our fingers and cocked with our thumb. We all did it. Outlaw our fingers and only outlaws will have fingers to use in fun games like this. How I regret we can‘t do anything fun anymore that hasn’t been outlawed. Learned to shoot a 22 rifle when about 8 yrs. old and have had a love affair with guns every since, but knew as a child how to respect what guns were, not hidden away making me want to explore how I could touch one our of curiosity. Learn respect & gun locks.
Report Post »avenger
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 7:22pmthis is why we need to teach kids guns 101…
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 7:52pmHere come the “Anti-gun nuts”, with the see guns are dangerous.
Report Post »No, guns aren’t dangerous, parents with young children that don’t teach them about the danger of guns are dangerous.
jackrorabbit
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 8:01pm@Section 8 housing
Report Post »If Jesus was so “anti-money”, why did he have such expensive clothes? How do I know? Would Roman soldiers cast lots(bet on) who would get His clothes? He was a Jew, so they would have seen His clothes as beneath them, unless they were so nice that they couldn’t help themselves.
If Jesus was so “anti-money” why did he teach so much on the responsibility of money? Such as the parable of the talents(Roman coinage, not our gifts-study the Greek for the root word). Also, he taught that the LOVE of money was the root of all evil, but money by itself without the love of it isn’t an issue, or he wouldn’t have used the word LOVE. He said you cannot serve two masters, money and God, but you certainly can use money, especially if you are furthering the Gospel. It isn’t a question of the money, it is a question of your heart. By the way, you can be poor, and be a Lover of money, don’t believe me, if you look at a nice car and wish that you had the money to buy it, guess what, you love money.
Paul said, I have been RICH, and I have been poor, and I have learned to be content in whatever state I am in. Again, not about the money, its about the HEART! And you are correct, Jesus was a Jew, not an Arab though, there is a difference.
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Posted on April 19, 2011 at 10:06pmThe libs will probably try to take guns away from the parents of this child. Then parents of any child, then parents, then everybody. Then, once the guns are gone, impose Marshall Law and turn the US over to a World Govenment. This power play to remove guns from this parent spells doom to us all.
Redstate is reporting inside information that the government will use this to begin the crackdown on guns. Lock and load fellow Americans!
Report Post »DTOM_Jericho (leaving PA)
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 10:39pm@Ginsberg.
If you are a free citizen you should never be denied your 2nd amendment right. If you are that much of a danger you should be caged. Once you have paid a DEBT that the gov determines, you are square. If you crime is that heinous then you should be a lifer or executed. Nobody takes away a felon’s 1st amendment right or others. You make have some restricted on parole but once a debt is determined and you pay it, you should be a free citizen. You have the right… the GOD-GIVEN, INALIENABLE RIGHT, to protect yourself and that “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED”.
Seems stupid to “take away” a right because you think you can use it to kill. You let the same people behind a 3,000 lb. weapon(car) every day; and that is literally a privilege, not a right. If it’s about safety, why can you walk into a store and pick a black powder rifle off a shelf and walk out without a background check?
It’s about one thing; fear. Fear on the government’s end of not being able to control us. WE are the gov and we should be well armed.
Report Post »The Big Pickle
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 12:20amLet’s play “Guess the Race”?
10 to 1 odds it’s a black kid.
Report Post »carnifex
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 2:40amHe was just preppin’ for the NBPP “Day of Rage, M’Fer” on sat.
Report Post »BubbaSC
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:04amD—A– It was more likely a brothers gangta gun stolen somewhere else. More and likely it was his 20 year old mothers latest “boyfriends” gun, and he has 3 younger siblings at home, or maybe his 35 year old granny’s “boyfriends” gun? Oh well we will never know as the “family” says “we’uns has no idea whar that gun come from, it not mine, boy musta found it in the yard.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 5:49amDad needs to have his toys taken away.
Report Post »audaxrex
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 8:21amPity none of the other kids had a concealed-carry permit, right? so they could have taken out this bad egg before he hurt anybody?
Report Post »MSMOM
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:37pmI’ve had both my children shooting since they were 3. An unloaded gun is no more than a stick. All of mine are loaded and my children know not to touch them. It’s a parents responsibility to teach their children respect for a firearm if they chose to own them. The parents of this child should absolutely be held responsible for their utter stupidity.
Report Post »DocH
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 7:52pmWe enforce it by mandatory prison sentences for the gun owners, applicable to the injuries.
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