The Donkey
New member
This horror out of Kentucky:
Apparently unsupervised 5 year old shoots two year old with rifle that looked like a toy:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/02/boy-shoots-sister-my-first-rifle/2128573/
Simple stuff folks:
1. firearms should not be designed to look like toys;
2. Firearms should be properly secured;
3. Children should not be allowed to play with firearms as if they were toys;
4. All young children, including those in households where the family is supposedly familiar with guns, should be taught these basics about firearms in the absence of a responsible supervising adult:
Don't touch it.
Get away.
Tell an adult.
Point 4 is what is taught by the NRA in its "Eddie Eagle" program.
Sometimes, even the NRA gets it right.
Apparently unsupervised 5 year old shoots two year old with rifle that looked like a toy:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/02/boy-shoots-sister-my-first-rifle/2128573/
Simple stuff folks:
1. firearms should not be designed to look like toys;
2. Firearms should be properly secured;
3. Children should not be allowed to play with firearms as if they were toys;
4. All young children, including those in households where the family is supposedly familiar with guns, should be taught these basics about firearms in the absence of a responsible supervising adult:
Don't touch it.
Get away.
Tell an adult.
Point 4 is what is taught by the NRA in its "Eddie Eagle" program.
Sometimes, even the NRA gets it right.