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"I have nothing wrong with guns it's with this country was built on."
This grieving father is a knucklehead.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/20/us/michigan-boy-accidental-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
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"I have nothing wrong with guns it's with this country was built on." (Original Post)
Loudly
Aug 2013
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CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)1. But the good news in the article is that these kinds of deaths are "rare"
So everyone can console themselves when their child gets his brains splattered on the wall that it isn't all that common.
USA loves guns more than their children.
Robb
(39,665 posts)2. I clicked on that related "play date" article
... And those same paragraphs were stuck in that one, too. Word for word, identical copy.
Apparently it's really, really, really important to get the message out that these events are super rare.
eppur_se_muova
(37,436 posts)3. Wait, what ?
Clearly this country wasn't built on proper grammar and syntax.
BainsBane
(54,796 posts)4. There is a lot wrong with parents who leave loaded guns where
kids can access them. Whether it was a friend's gun or not, there is no way someone brings a shotgun into your house without your noticing.