The Republican/NRA American dream is coming true. A 3-year-old is killed while playing with a loaded pink handgun and a woman pulls a gun at an all girls school during carpool pick up.
In South Carolina, WBTW reported today that Charleston’s Ashley Hall was on lockdown after a woman pointed a handgun at a school official during Monday’s carpool pickup. The police were called and luckily, no one was hurt. Gun-toting 28-year-old Alice Boland was arrested.
The NRA puppets were just explaining to us that women need assault weapons for safety purposes. If only Boland had been carrying an assault weapon! Stars and stripes, my friends. Oh, she’s the “bad guy” in this scenario — but of course we would not know that before she gets the assault weapon since background checks are a sin against freedom.
In much sadder news, funeral arrangements have been made for a 3-year-old South Carolinian boy named Tmorej Smith, who died due to a single shot in the head after he and a sibling were playing with a pink handgun they thought was a toy. The gun went off and killed Tmorej.
This is just a snippet of gun news reported over a 24 hour span in one state of “the land of the free and home of the brave”, per the NRA’s American Dream.
According to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Report, “In 2010, 5,597 people (58% of murder victims) were killed at or before the age of 30. The average American lives to the age of 78, so that’s at least 48 years of life un-lived by the average gun victim. 1,091 people (11%) were killed at or under the age of 18—not even adults. Killed before such milestones as marriage, children, grandchildren, or a career, 58% of the people murdered with a gun had barely begun to live their lives.” For more on the NRA’s vision for America and how it’s worked out so far, sit down before you watch this blood chilling graph.
In South Carolina, they conclude their news report with this sad homage to the NRA’s American Dream, “Officials are reminding gun owners to keep them locked at all times and out of reach of children.”
I would amend that warning and suggest that perhaps we should keep guns out of reach of many adults as well. Especially during carpool pick up, because tempers flare. In the wild west, the only way to deal with your childish inability to cope when things don’t go exactly your way is to threaten other people with a gun. You know, for freedom.
Waiting too long to pick your kid up after school? Pull your gun and stand your ground, patriots! Jesus loves a winner. Kids bored? Leave a loaded pink handgun laying around and hope your kids know better than to touch it.
If these news stories scare you, then you definitely need an assault weapon to protect you from the “bad guys”, like the young children who didn’t know any better and the obviously off her rocker woman with the handgun at school. Gosh, if only those kids had had an assault weapon… because, say it with me, “guns don’t kill people.”
Note: NO, you should not leave loaded weapons around your house, even if you do not have children. And NO, you should not whip out a gun the next time you’re frustrated. Low frustration tolerance levels are just another thing we should test people for before we grant them access to a gun, as citizens are making abundantly clear of late.
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Just A Dumb Fireman
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 3:30 pm
Lunatic country.
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Erica
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 3:48 pm
So, neither of the incidents you mention above involved an “assault weapon”, so what exactly is your point? Are you arguing that all guns should be illegal and that all guns currently in circulation should be confiscated? If so, should this include the police as well? How should confiscation be implemented? Should the police be allowed to search every home in America for a gun? Again, you seem to be lacking a point. All this post includes is an absurd strawman that the NRA enjoys gun violence and therefore all gun violence is their fault. That makes no sense. Is triple-A responsible for every vehicular manslaughter committed in America?
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Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 3:51 pm
So? No assault weapon involved? SO? And?
Why do you continue to be such a jerk when you know guns are not going to be confiscated?
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Jonah
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 11:12 am
He doesn’t know they’re not going to take away his guns. I know people like him. Crazy people really do believe crazy things. We were at a bar the other week listening to the guy beside us explain in great detail to the bartender how Obama had already arranged for NATO forces to come in and seize all the guns. He believed it. We went and got a table across the room.
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Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 11:21 am
And three years from now they will be saying, “Hillary is after all of our guns”
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Reynardine
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 4:08 pm
The point, you mean little crotch-brained troll, is that, given the carnage committed even with ordinary weapons by dumb, mean, and nuts humans, the last thing we need is to give them access to weapons that can kill more people in less time. For example, would you like me standing in front of you with one as you deliver your spiteful little screed? Not if you have a brain cell left.
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Peter Barnett
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 4:30 pm
Because a three year old is going to commit mass-carnage. That story right there had nothing to do with gun-control. It was a freak accident. But you don’t ban guns! And maybe you don’t know this, but assault rifle’s are available right now. If people were going to use them, they would be. Just because two crazy and psychotic lunatics use them doesn’t mean the rest of America pays.
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Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 4:40 pm
First of all nobody is messing with guns.
Secondly you are not going to miss assault rifles in time. It wont take long and you will forget they ever existed. You will discover that you never needed one to start with. And in time people will find that they are harder to get and people who plan on doing mass killings will possibly not be able to get them.
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Reynardine
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 5:41 pm
Ding, ding, they have used them! A lot more than two! And what we are talking about is banning rapid-fire, extended-fire capacity in civilian hands, whether you call it an assault weapon or a lollipop! That was banned most of your breathing life, and you didn’t miss it, did you?
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Peter Barnett
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 6:18 pm
In Georgia recently, there was a lady who shot an intruder six times. He got up, cried, and left. What if there had been three intruders? How would she have defended herself with one gun?
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djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 6:21 pm
I need a link to this or I smell bull “cough’
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Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 6:53 pm
She should have had thirty guns. Perhaps she could have shot her kids too.
So much for the rumor that pistols are just as deadly as assault rifles.
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Peter Barnett
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 6:34 pm
Apologies. She shot six times and only hit him five times. The point still stands.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/05/my-wife-is-a-hero-georgia-mother-shoots-home-intruder-five-times-after-being-cornered/
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djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 6:47 pm
The blaze?You come here with a link to beck?
http://imageshack.us/a/img152/1763/doublefacepalm1.jpg
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Reynardine
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 7:36 pm
My prior reply to you glitched, when someone called me. However, I have known retired burglars, and they did not carry heat, nor did they want to work with anyone who did. If someone had come hellbent on murder, they would have come armed with the very weapons you are trying to promote, and they would have fired them before your hypothetical lady could even have reached for hers, because real assassins do that. Meanwhile, if she had been so armed when this hypothetical burglar came in, she would doubtless have shot her hypothetical husband and kids to a hypothetical jelly pulp.
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Peter Barnett
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 10:33 pm
http://atlantablackstar.com/2013/01/10/georgia-woman-who-shot-intruder-hailed-as-model-gun-owner/
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/woman-hiding-kids-shoots-intruder/nTm7s/
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/danieldoherty/2013/01/05/woman-hiding-in-attic-shoots-intruder-5-times-to-protect-her-children-n1479445
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/06/georgia-mom-home-alone-with-kids-shoots-ex-con-intruder/
Apologies I came with the blaze. And of course you won’t find any liberal sites post about it, because that would show the importance of guns. The point is that people have access to the assault rifles. If everyone was going to be using them in the wrong way, they would have already. But banning assault rifles is not the way to go. Believe it or not, the gun was given to the people not for hunting. It was given to protect them from the government.
And on the topic of magazine sizes, that’s just stupid. As if the person can’t reload and pack the same heat.
AND I find it ironic that this article talks about a three year-old using a gun on accident. What do we do, ban all guns? Obviously no, and I know you aren’t saying that. But then why are you using it in this article? Illogical. Now if you would go ahead and click that thumbs down, I think that will make everything normal on this page once again.
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Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 10:44 pm
Are you trying to convinve us that people have access to assault weapons? When Walmart is the biggest purveyor of them?
Guns are not important. On the list of your rights they should be dead last.
Pray to god assault weapons disappear. The next one could be one of your relatives.
You are a freaking idiot. And you are gone.
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Churchlady
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 4:42 pm
You know, some of us liberals do HAVE guns in no small part to defend against RW extremists and white supremacists et al. But the NRA while not tolerating their own argument to ban semi automatics, has raised the idea of arming everyone to ludicrous levels. That is the point – this woman had no justifiable reason to threaten anyone but did it because she could.
NO one is saying all guns – even hers – should be banned, but the NRA by digging a huge hole and throwing all guns AND logic in there, has made it necessary for us to point out the lunacy of a “locked and loaded” society.
These two stories simply illustrate what happens when honorable discussion descends into hardened ideology. No one wins. Especially not little three year old kids.
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Mark Gunn
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 11:00 pm
No, this isn’t about an assault weapons ban. It’s about these so – called “responsible” gun owners that are too freaking lazy and or stupid to lock their weapons up properly. Had it not been for the so-called “adult’s” negligence, that 3 year old would be alive right now ! As for the idiot broad pulling a gun at a school, she needs the harshest sentence possible. While no one is trying to take anyone’s guns away, these geniuses certainly make the case for doing so.
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Daniel Berry, NYC
Feb. 7th, 2013 at 7:19 am
Nobody, nobody NOBODY is talking about confiscation except paranoid know-nothings like you. Talk about a straw-man…!
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Reynardine
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 4:10 pm
Right-wing America: Where every fetus is armed with military weapons and real, live, born children are mowed down by the score.
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LookingForward
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 4:29 pm
Obviously Erica is missing the point….that we clearly have a gun problem! It’s called denial!
This news story brought back a horrible memory when I was in first grade. A class mate found his fathers hand gun, it went off, shot him in his head and killed him, he was 5. Funny, I never thought of that until just now! He name was Mike!
I hope we can get something done……instead of nothing!
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Older_Wiser
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 4:37 pm
It’s worse than they reported: http://www.live5news.com/story/20962368/woman-arrested-for-pointing-gun-gun-at-school-official
Evidently Alice Boland has a history w/LE and is very mentally unstable as well.
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AFM
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 5:44 pm
I don’t know about anyoneelse but I am sure ashamed of our country because they put life of humans behind the right to own a gun. NRA shouldn’t be more powerful then the american people. Someone’s right to own a gun and take it out in public shouldn’t infringe on my rights to not worry someone goes off because they didn’t like something and react by shooting it out. No I want to be able to go out without fears.
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Reynardine
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 6:13 pm
And people kill people with Velveeta, but it takes twenty years to kill one person that way, not ten seconds to butcher twenty children. Meanwhile, we’ve heard it all before, you lying fuck. Take your rapid-fire phallus problems elsewhere.
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Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 6:51 pm
Sean has left the house
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Reynardine
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 6:57 pm
Well, good. I hope he took his phallus problems with him.
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paulabflat
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 9:55 am
did i miss something? i always miss the good parts.
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Deanne
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 8:00 pm
With all the Rightwing Rethugs and their love of guns — I’m waiting to hear some moron blew his balls off as he makes out with it as the ‘dicks’ love their guns so much they’d rather do it with the guns than their wife.
Would I feel sorry for him — Not one bit. It saves the time and energy of Lorrena Bobbit to snuff another ‘dick’ from someone else. We should all follow in her footsteps — raise the voices of all the Rethugs!!!!
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mjh
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 2:32 am
With all the Rightwing Rethugs and their love of guns — I’m waiting to hear some moron blew his balls off as he makes out with it as the ‘dicks’ love their guns so much they’d rather do it with the guns than their wife.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/offbeat/120911/man-shoots-himself-penis-while-cleaning-gun
http://newsok.com/man-shoots-self-in-penis-is-arrested-in-oklahoma-city/article/3692972
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/16/michigan-man-shoots-himself-through-the-crotch-while-adjusting-gun/
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2013/02/05/Man-shoots-self-in-groin-with-flare-gun/UPI-73451360097271/
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Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 8:09 pm
More people with guns, more people whipping guns out. More people to shoot and more people to shoot the shooters.
The NRA orgasms, the gun nuts send them money
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Rocky in Texas said...
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 8:11 pm
Be Safe America !!
Don’t mix your Nut’s with Gun’s…
cause…
Gun’s & Nut’s don’t mix!
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Reynardine
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 8:46 pm
CBS News reports that Dykes was a survivalist who was inspired by the Newtown massacre to seize child hostages and use them to negotiate TV air time to propound his views. The bus driver’s heroic sacrifice prevented him from getting more than one. When the rescue team entered, they shot Dykes to prevent him from detonating his explosive booby traps.
http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml?&pageType=eveningNews&catid=57567795&feed_id=29&nb_splitPage=5
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Margie
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 9:41 pm
To Peter Barnett: You said the 3 year old dying was a freak accident. There is nothing that defines negligence as a freak accident. As far as I am concerned, the adult that left the weapon laying around should be convicted at the very least of murder, reckless endangerment of a child, and any other charge they can come up with. Even worse, the weapon was pink, which we know is an enticing color for kids (bubble gum, cotton candy, toys, soft animals, etc.) This type of thing happens way too often to be considered a “freak accident”. A freak accident would be defined as say, for example, someone driving down the road at exactly the same time a tree falls, crushing him in the car. THAT would be a freak accident. Nobody’s fault, wrong place, wrong time. The 3 year old’s death is OBVIOUSLY the fault of the “responsible adult with the gun license” who did not use proper gun safety.
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majii
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 1:27 am
I don’t know how many people will have to die before the “guns for everybody” crowd wakes up and realizes that a gun is not the answer one needs to allay one’s fears. A guy in Dallas killed a young couple yesterday simply because their dog pooped on his porch, and he thought their kids were too noisy. It does not make sense that some people have begun to think that if you don’t like something/one, just blow them away–problem solved. I find this to be an odious, primitive way to resolve conflicts. Some Americans’ love of guns over people makes their claim of America being an “exceptional” nation a huge lie. I don’t understand why anyone from another country would even entertain the idea of moving here, or even coming here for a visit, in light of the fact that there’s a strong possibility they could lose their lives to one of these gun enthusiasts who think Stand Your Ground means you can shoot anyone for any reason and walk away free as a bird. In a truly exceptional nation, citizens admit that there are problems that need to to addressed and that violence should be the last choice used to resolve any conflict. As long as we have millions of citizens who take the loss of human life to gun violence as just another occurrence, we’re neither humane, nor exceptional. And, those who value their guns more than human life are no more suited to live in a civil society than a pack of wild dingos roaming the Australian Outback.
http://www.khou.com/news/crime/Dallas-man-accused-of-killing-neighbors-over-dog-poop-loud-kids-189728141.html
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wrdsmth
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 7:16 am
courage is a virtue that always begins inside a human being’s mind and must be cultivated throughout one’s life. true courage cannot not be bought for the price of a gun, a knife or brass knuckles. when the fearful buy a weapon, all it means is that there is one more dangerously armed coward in the crowd.
people who wish to own a firearm should not only have to pass a background check (including everyone who will have access to the weapon) and a mental fitness exam on a yearly basis for each one those persons but undergo the same training that police are required to take concerning the use of firearms as well as a yearly refresher course. if such a person feels this is too rigorous a program, then that person does not deserve to possess a deadly weapon that fires bullets.
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fedded-up
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 5:47 pm
What we are witnessing is the end result of decades of RW extremism, fear-mongering, and increasingly vicious conspiracy theories conjured up by people with an equally vicious agenda. I predict, with more than a tad bit of nausea, that this is only going to escalate further as long as the extremists have access to such extreme mind control instruments. These people are by now so saturated with this shite they seem to have lost any sense of balance or control or even plain old common sense.
Here are your signs of insanity writ large:
- Shooting the neighbors because you’re aggravated by them;
- Carrying a gun to pick up your child from school;
- The leader of a national organization believing that it is even remotely appropriate to argue against background checks for potential gun buyers because “criminals don’t have to.”
- Anyone on planet earth making the argument that because a child shot himself with a handgun that we are stupid to consider even consider banning weapons with humungous killing capacity;
- Anyone on this planet even considering making toy guns that “look just like the real thing!”;
- Any gun manufacturer on earth who would ever consider for a nanosecond manufacturing a GD PINK HANDGUN!!!!!
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djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 6:35 pm
Shot over dog sh@t.
SMDH
Dallas police say elderly man apparently killed couple over dog droppings
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/headlines/20130204-dallas-police-say-elderly-man-apparently-killed-couple-over-dog-droppings.ece
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Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 6:43 pm
Well you know, 1st its legal to shoot anyone in Texas, and if you have a dog, someone complains for 2 years about the dodo, and you cant control it, well its legal to shoot people in texas over dodo
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Smiley
Feb. 7th, 2013 at 12:45 am
This is really sad. It makes my heart ache. Every day a poor child, a baby is killed because of guns. With the way that gun sales are rising it will happen more and more. It is not fair that our children have to grow up in such a careless society.
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Smiley
Feb. 7th, 2013 at 12:52 am
There is no such thing as domestic tranquility as long as anyone can carry a gun.
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