Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Hunting Season, and You Know What That Means!

It's time for the amazing accidental killing of children and loved ones post!!!

Now, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to answer our final question for a fabulous prize!

Which story is true:
A) Sixteen month old shot in the chest and killed by a hunter. The man shot an Eastern White Tail and failed to kill it in the first shot. His second shot penetrated a trailer, killing the toddler residing inside. He was using .300 Magnum rifle shells - GUESS WHICH ONE THAT IS!
B) Father shoots and kills his six year old daughter while cleaning his gun. He was drinking at the time. Also among this man's awesome history is being handed a shotgun and immediately pulling the trigger, accidentally discharging what he had thought was an unloaded weapon.
C) Nineteen year old woman shoots and kills herself by accident while handling a gun that apparently belonged to her boyfriend.
D) Eight year old Massachusetts boy accidentally shoots himself in the head when firing an Uzi. The kickback caused the child to lose control of the weapon.

Oh wait, looks like all of them are true, and each of them tragic beyond words.

I understand that people want to hunt, and they have every right to do so within reason. Within reason means you don't have to use rifle shells that could kill an elephant for hunting small deer. Within reason means you don't need to let small children fire a dangerous submachine gun. Within reason means that owning a gun should be a privilege to the people who have earned it, and not the absolute right some people think it is. Whatever interpretation of the Second Amendment is used, the founding fathers were fallible. Even if they thought every citizen should own a musket for their own personal defense, why can't they have been wrong about it?

There sure are a lot of these.

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