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4-Year-Old Fatally Shot By Woman Who Was Teaching Her 'Firearm Safety,' Authorities Say
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Many of the comments in this thread are sickening. A child was blatantly murdered and the headline is bullshit, there is no mention of firearm safety training whatsoever. She literally pressed a firearm against a child's chest and pulled the trigger after she abused them for not doing something young children should have to do.
If you can somehow screech out "muh conservatives shouldn't have gunz!" then you didn't even read this shit or you are dickbrained. Nothing about this woman speaks conservative and some of it is contrary to that claim if anything.
How about “Only licensed, trained, competent owners should be allowed to have guns?”
She obviously was none of the 3
I'd have no problem with that whatsoever. That still doesn't break my point away that she should have never had the children in the first place. She struck children who were not even hers, she wanted an excuse to kill is all.
However, you can narrow it down to licensed and competent. You aren't getting a license in anything without training.
If it makes you feel better, she cannot legally own a firearm now that she is a convicted felon. Don't you even dare think that is going to stop her from being able to kill again. Felons can't have firearms, but remember that firearms are not the only ranged weapons out there.
Haha what. We taking bets? White abusive woman from Tennessee playing with guns...
Also, "no mention of firearm safety"? Straight from the article:
Of course it's a bullshit excuse and this lady is batshit crazy. It's almost like it should be harder for the average dumbass to get a gun..
Remember, prejudices are bad unless theyre against a whole race of ppl!
I'll put $20 on conservative please
White abusive woman from Tennessee playing with guns doesn't have anything politically backing it whatsoever. Way to feed into stereotypes by the way, as if liberals don't exist in the deep south or anything.
I guarantee you that she did not say that because that is the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard. She said that to POLICE but it isn't what happened.
Maybe.
But it does tie into the notion that mentally ill people shouldn't be allowed to own guns.
Cases like this make it seem that way, but my issue is "define mentally ill."
Exactly. Plus it just further stigmatizes people with actual mental illnesses by constantly associating them with the absolute worst dregs of society. Why is it so hard for people to understand that there's a wealth of sadistic, selfish, and unfathomably stupid people out there in the world, and none of those things automatically equate to mental illness.
That's a really good point, I didn't even think of that. Thanks for the addition!
People who are in danger of themself and those around them already cannot legally own firearms.
If you are suicidal or have a history of violence related to mental illness, you legally cannot have one already.
I actually agree with the other guy quite a lot. It is something that would be abused rather than followed.
That's what I was getting at too, he just expounded on the stigmatization of "mentally ill" being related to stuff like this, which I hadn't considered. We all three agree though it seems, imo it's one of those "I mean yeah it sounds good on the surface but it doesn't hold up to scruitanty" things.
She would've found some other way to kill the child, like suffocation.
Takes a lot more effort and intent. Guns take all that away with a single finger pull.
Conservatives are the reason she was allowed to have guns.
Will you liberals shut the fuck up about the fucking conservatives for a second? Not everything is about mUh CoNsErVaTiVeS and politics. Who is to say she legally obtained the firearm huh? The article doesn't even say what kind of firearm it is, for all we know it could be a 3d printed ghost gun?
I swear every bit of news I see, liberals use it as an excuse to bitch about conservatives. A child died by first degree murder from a caretaker because of the awful CPS that we have, guns are not the focal point here buddy.
Your comment is so absurd that I thought it was satirical at first.
Half the posts here are satirical as well. A deranged individual gets custody of children not hers and everyone screeches "gUnZ!" like a bag of cats. What do you honestly think would have happened had she not had a gun? Tell me!
Do you honestly think the situation where she didn't have a gun would have been better than the situation where the kids never went to a home where the custodians were clearly not fit to have custody of CPS children?