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Gun Control Reform Activism

Jake Stern

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4. The almost never seems to be

Reply to flamin lib (Reply #3)

Tue Aug 4, 2015, 01:34 PM

Aug 2015

charges laid against a parent whose child gets hold of a firearm and shoots themselves or others.

It was a "tragic accident".

Let that same child get his hands on Drano and ingest it and the parent gets walloped with a neglect or endangerment charge.

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Dad Shoots Daughter Accidently While Teaching Gun Safety [View all] libodem Aug 2015 OP

Who's in a pickle now? nt Xipe Totec Aug 2015 #1

Thankfully she wasn't killed libodem Aug 2015 #2

OMG! Posted to wrong thread! I have no idea how this happened Xipe Totec Aug 2015 #9

No problem libodem Aug 2015 #10

There will probably be no charges filed. It is very rare for incidents like this to flamin lib Aug 2015 #3

The almost never seems to be Jake Stern Aug 2015 #4

There's no such thing as "gun safety" nichomachus Aug 2015 #5

Knowing if it is loaded ought to be step one in safety libodem Aug 2015 #7

"See, sweetie? This is how not to handle a gun safely!" Aristus Aug 2015 #6

That child will be lucky not to have post tramatic stress libodem Aug 2015 #8