Bob,
That is exactly the point! This was an accidental death as a result of a
handgun in the household. Comparing accidental deaths by doctors to
accidental deaths by guns is a specious analogy (remember that is what this
is about, see the subject) and my post was to drive home this assertion
using irony as a device to make the case.
Declaring that a 4 year old would be capable of killing older siblings with
a knife or bow and arrow is absurd, implausible and completely irrelevant.
Regards,
Sandy
> Vernon...
>
> Does the gun-owning adult understand
> what he has done?
>
> Of course this is tragic....but how the
> hell did this poor little kid ever get his hands on a gun???
>
> Nobody (especially here in these United
> States) likes to admit that life has it's
> risks (not that we don't try to limit them...
> we should...and do) but it does. Who is the responsible party here? Did
> the gun
> owning adult "limit risk".
>
> What if it had been a bow/arrow? A knife?
> Who's the irresponsible party. How did
> this 4 year old "happen" to pick up a deadly weapon, loaded or not?
>
> Cap'n. Bob
> '60 :{)
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