Today’s idiot
Wendi C. Thomas, who apparently views the comparison of the Schiavo case to gun rights as valid, also writes:
On Saturday 8-year-old Acquiria Ralston and her twin sister were playing with a shotgun in their South Memphis home. The gun went off and Acquiria was killed.
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First: It’s hard to say who or what is responsible for the girl’s death.
Her parents weren’t home when the shooting occurred; if they had been perhaps the sisters wouldn’t have been able to get the gun.
So, it’s actually not hard at all to say who is responsible for the girl’s death. Her parents are entirely responsible for 1) leaving an 8 year old unsupervised and 2) leaving a shotgun where the child could get to it.
If Tennessee law required that every gun sold come with a child safety lock, perhaps the girls wouldn’t have been able to fire the gun even if it’d been left in their toy box.
First of all, almost every gun I ever bought came with a safety lock without that being mandated into law. Those locks do a fine job of keeping my ammo boxes locked and my gates closed. Do you really think someone that is so irresponsible as to leave a gun and ammunition out where an unsupervised child can find it is going to be responsible enough to put the lock on the gun?
If guns (and the need to arm oneself) were as rare as a palatable plan to repair Social Security, Acquiria still might be alive.
That is one lame-ass political jab. And if they were that rare, crime might be out of control.
Without a single culpable party, blame often gets tossed around like a hot potato until the potato cools and we lose interest.
No, there is a culpable party. More:
Despite pontification about a renewed commitment to a culture of life following Schiavo’s death, in America, there is no such culture.
If there truly were a culture of life in America, you’d see the same people who rallied around Schiavo’s parents railing against the gun lobby, which has given more than $17 million to federal candidates in the last 16 years. During that same period gun control advocates gave just $1.7 million to federal candidates.
And what exactly do gun rights activists have to do with death? The NRA’s program to educate children about gun safety has saved more lives than any gun control measure ever has. And here’s the fact the annoys anti-gun bedwetters: the gun lobby is the sum of its millions of members.
