Saturday, February 2, 2013

U.S. Gun Deaths Since Sandy Hook Top 1,280


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/01/us-gun-deaths-sandy-hook_n_2602074.html


 It was Christmas night when Sincere Smith, 2, found his father’s loaded gun on the living room table of their Conway, S.C., mobile home. It took just a second for Smith’s tiny hands to find the trigger and pull. A single bullet ripped into his upper right chest and out his back.
His father, Rondell Smith, said he had turned away to call Sincere’s mother, who had left to visit a friend. His back was turned to the toddler, he said, for just that moment.
Sincere was still conscious when his father scooped him up and rushed him to the hospital, just a few minutes away.
There were murder-suicides in Florida, Kentucky, Oregon, Texas and California. Most were men killing women, husbands killing wives, boyfriends killing girlfriends, sons killing mothers.
Silly arguments became final arguments. A man was murdered over two broken cigarettes. Another aftergetting into a spat at a taco truck. Travis Len Massey, 23, was shot and killed by his sister's boyfriend in a family dispute over a missing gun. A 52-year-old Jacksonville man shot and killed a longtime friend over an argument, according to police. When asked what the argument was about, the gunman said he didn't remember, according to a television report.
A 6-year-old accidentally killed a 4-year-old. A different 4-year-old accidentally killed a 58-year old.
parental responsibility yes but if not for the proliferation of guns legal and illegal  parents would not have these things on their heads. not exonerating them but out of sight out of mind that goes for adults too.  NRA irresponsible gun promotion for kids???????    want a problem to fix go for it.