Tuesday, March 15th, 2016

The macabre truth of gun control in the US is that toddlers kill more people than terrorists do

Author: Lindy West
Source: The Guardian (U.K.)
Publication Date: Sunday 13 March 2016 09.00 EDT
Link: The macabre truth of gun control in the US is that toddlers kill more people than terrorists do

Stephan: I want you to read this story on two levels. One, how horrifying is it that toddlers shoot and kill more people than terrorists? We spend hundreds of billions to protect ourselves against terrorists. What do we spend protecting ourselves against our children? Second, this is how the United States of America is portrayed in the friendliest foreign press. It gets much worse. This is what we have become. How do you feel about both these points?

Jamie Gilt, who has built a thriving web presence on the argument that guns are perfectly safe around kids, was shot by her young child.
Credit: Facebook/Jamie Gilt

This week, in my country, considered by some of its more embarrassing denizens to be the “greatest country in the world”, an outspoken Florida “gun rights” advocate left a loaded .45 calibre handgun in the back seat of her car and was promptly shot and wounded by her four-year-old child. Truly a pinnacle of human potential, much like the invention of paper in second-century BC China, or Aristotle holding forth in the Lyceum, or whoever first pointed out that Florida looks like America’s penis.

What do you say about the outspoken Florida “gun rights” advocate who left a loaded .45 calibre handgun in the back seat of her car and was promptly shot and wounded […]

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