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yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
Thu Oct 20, 2016, 10:10 AM Oct 2016

Toddlers have shot at least 50 people this year

It's not about "taking your guns away" - it's about keeping us safer!

Source: Washington Post, by Christopher Ingraham

In bringing up toddlers at the debate, Clinton may have been channeling the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, which recently launched a PSA focused on toddler shootings.

“Americans are shot by toddlers at least once a week.We need to lock them up. Not the guns — that’s just un-American,” the Brady Campaign says in the satirical video. “Round them up. Deport them. Get them out of our country. And keep them away from guns.”





https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/20/toddlers-have-shot-at-least-50-people-this-year/?tid=pm_business_pop_b
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Toddlers have shot at least 50 people this year (Original Post) yallerdawg Oct 2016 OP
I think most would agree that the 2nd ammendment does not include toddlers. Wilms Oct 2016 #1
You're right. yallerdawg Oct 2016 #2

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
2. You're right.
Thu Oct 20, 2016, 11:20 AM
Oct 2016

Keeping toddlers safe isn't in the 2nd Amendment. Nothing about responsible gun ownership, either.

Maybe a little about "security in a free State" requiring the necessity of us being "well regulated."

But who pays attention to the annoying first half of the amendment?

Heller vs. Washington DC:

District of Columbia law bans handgun possession by making it a crime to carry an unregistered firearm and prohibiting the registration of handguns; provides separately that no person may carry an unlicensed handgun, but authorizes the police chief to issue 1-year licenses; and requires residents to keep lawfully owned firearms unloaded and dissembled or bound by a trigger lock or similar device.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.ZS.html
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