9 year old shoots sister of vide game controller.

[yellow dog]

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What is boils down to is security vs freedom - you guys have so many laws and restrictions you can hardly call yourself free - I personally take freedom over security

And that's why everyone is killing each other in the U.S.A , it's a complete breakdown in society. No one cares.

[73hunter]

Teaching respect is responsible parenting. Locking guns up to prevent children from getting to them is responsible gun ownership.[/QUOTE]

Nail on the head right there, thank you Badenoch

Dutch: you’re right about guns stored in closets 30 years ago, but remember we didn’t have all these 1st person shooter video games like we do now, that and numerous other factors have sent society down the tubes !

[trimmer21]

Teaching respect is responsible parenting. Locking guns up to prevent children from getting to them is responsible gun ownership.

Nail on the head right there, thank you Badenoch

Dutch: you’re right about guns stored in closets 30 years ago, but remember we didn’t have all these 1st person shooter video games like we do now, that and numerous other factors have sent society down the tubes ![/QUOTE]

I doubt violent video games,per se, are responsible. There's been a total breakdown on how this generation has been raised through failure to maintain discipline simply because both parents must work at two or three part time jobs just to make ends meet taking time away from meaningful family interaction. It's resulted in the "home alone" syndrome that's proving to be an unmitigated disaster. If something isn't done soon,I shudder to think what the following generation will be like.

[jaycee]

It is not illegal to leave the gun loaded and in the drawer, so probably not, they will say it was a horrible accident with no charges laid to anyone.

The state of Mississippi, has a " Child Access Prevention Law " .
http://lawcenter.giffords.org/gun-la...ss-prevention/

DESCRIPTION OF STATE CHILD ACCESS PREVENTION LAWS

[COLOR=#333333]CAP laws take a variety of forms. The strongest laws impose criminal liability when a minor is likely to gain access to a negligently stored firearm regardless of whether the minor actually gains access (California). The weakest merely prohibit certain persons, such as parents or guardians, from directly providing a firearm to a minor (Utah). There is a wide range of laws that fall somewhere between these extremes, including laws that impose criminal liability for negligently stored firearms, but only where the child uses the firearm and causes death or serious injury. Weaker laws impose penalties only in the event of reckless, knowing or intentional conduct by the adult. State CAP laws also differ on the definition of “minor.”

[Fox]

The state of Mississippi, has a " Child Access Prevention Law " .
http://lawcenter.giffords.org/gun-la...ss-prevention/

DESCRIPTION OF STATE CHILD ACCESS PREVENTION LAWS

[COLOR=#333333]CAP laws take a variety of forms. The strongest laws impose criminal liability when a minor is likely to gain access to a negligently stored firearm regardless of whether the minor actually gains access (California). The weakest merely prohibit certain persons, such as parents or guardians, from directly providing a firearm to a minor (Utah). There is a wide range of laws that fall somewhere between these extremes, including laws that impose criminal liability for negligently stored firearms, but only where the child uses the firearm and causes death or serious injury. Weaker laws impose penalties only in the event of reckless, knowing or intentional conduct by the adult. State CAP laws also differ on the definition of “minor.”

Mississippi prohibits providing handguns to minors, would the top drawer of a night stand be considered providing them? I do not see any charges here at all, there have been numerous toddlers shooting parents and other siblings and I have not read about charges in those cases, unless the media just does not provide these articles.

[jaycee]

Firearms-related injuries are America's third leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 17, according to a 2017 report in the medical journal Pediatrics.

An average of 1297 children died each year from 2012 to 2014 from a firearm-related injury.

Analysing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, The Washington Post's editorial board found that "on average, 23 children were shot each day in the United States in 2015.

"Of the approximately 8400 shootings, 1458 were fatal, a death toll that exceeds the entire number of US military fatalities in Afghanistan this decade."

- The Washington Post

[73hunter]

[QUOTE=trimmer21

I doubt violent video games,per se, are responsible. There's been a total breakdown on how this generation has been raised through failure to maintain discipline simply because both parents must work at two or three part time jobs just to make ends meet taking time away from meaningful family interaction. It's resulted in the "home alone" syndrome that's proving to be an unmitigated disaster. If something isn't done soon,I shudder to think what the following generation will be like.[/QUOTE]

Yes said various other factors, there are many and we’ve both named a few. One thing JoePa has been consistently right about is the downward path that society is on, and most seem to know it yet be blind to it, or afraid to call a spade a spade due to political correctness...I certainly believe the shooting games have de-sensititized a whole generation

[Fox]

Firearms-related injuries are America's third leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 17, according to a 2017 report in the medical journal Pediatrics.

An average of 1297 children died each year from 2012 to 2014 from a firearm-related injury.

Analysing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, The Washington Post's editorial board found that "on average, 23 children were shot each day in the United States in 2015.

"Of the approximately 8400 shootings, 1458 were fatal, a death toll that exceeds the entire number of US military fatalities in Afghanistan this decade."

- The Washington Post

This is brutal and factual, so why do people down there have problems with safe storage?

[JoePa]

Fox - few people have any problem with safe storage if you got children around the house - but to many "safe storage" doesn't mean locked up in a safe without any ammo around - any reasonable person should be extra careful if there are children in the house - because some dummies leave loaded guns around the house and don't teach their children not to touch them why should millions of other people be required to obey another law making it mandatory to put guns in a safe - just think how many laws are written because some fools don't know how to be safe - then the government ends up controlling another aspect of your life -

[Deer Hunter]

Don’t change anything, it seems to be working great for you guys...