freshwest
freshwest's JournalThe thrice repeated phrase in the OP 'expected to survive,' doesn't prove much.
A GSW to take out part of the face, shatter the cervical spine, jaw or teeth, shredding the lip, tongue or throat won't repair itself with time, only surgery and years of expensive care, if at all.
Survive does not mean thrive, the child may be end up being disfigured or disabled for the rest of his life. Emotional or nervous trauma is a possibility.
But no funeral, not yet, so it's just an 'accident', a preventable event, but it was not negligence according to the law there. Yup.
It took a civil war to make that happen, you know. Most of the same crowd that refuse gun control:
States with the Most Gun Violence10. Georgia
9. Arkansas
8. Missouri
7. New Mexico
6. South Carolina
5. Mississippi
4. Arizona
3. Alabama
2. Alaska
1. Louisiana
Much more detail at the link:
http://247wallst.com/2013/04/15/states-with-the-most-gun-violence/2/
Note they now are majority GOP and or Teabagger. With the exception of AZ, NM and AK, they were all slave states. This mentality still exists.
People treat guns like toys, or a religious relic. Gun worship is the fastest growing religion now.
Legislators give away AR-15s for donations. Banks, radio stations, charities give them away. And Libertarians give free rifles to people in zero tolerance cities, and they all defy all regulations. They are favored as Christmas and birthday gifts for children.
Gun owners open carry so they can intimidate people at public meetings. Some cities and states mandate a gun in every home. This won't stop in states calling deaths and injuries accidents. It will keep going on.
I'm less affected at the deaths in these gun worshipping families than I was before. They have escaped this blighted world, it's possible their families will learn nothing, since the law keeps on giving them a free pass.
The people I'm concerned with are the peaceful ones who have to live alongside this mentality. And how easily gun owners are believing they have reasons to kill others. Some say they are ready to kill a lot of people for political reasons, or just for coming for their guns. Buying a machine gun or assault rifle with the ability to shoot many rounds as if in a war zone is a plan to commit mass murder.
See the pregnant mother. No doubt this picture will be an iconic image in their home as her child is born and grows up. We will have to live with these gun worshippers.
Yep. Case in point after we read all these stories, first one I ever read charged with a crime:
He Has A Name: 3-Year-Old Jadarrius Speights Shoots & Kills Himself With Uncle's Gun
...Jadarrius shot himself and now, Walker...is being charged with culpable negligence, which is a third degree felony.
His Uncle, 29-year-old Jeffrey Walker, left the gun in the room he shared with the toddler, where he found it in a backpack. Walker purchased the gun at a gun shop in the Tampa Bay area and also had a concealed weapons permit.
Tragically, the child's parents, 21-year-old Jasmine Bell and 22-year-old Trentin Speights, were in their bedroom at the time of the shooting...
http://globalgrind.com/news/3-year-old-jadarrius-speights-shoots-kills-himself-uncles-gun-tampa-photos
This was a permitted gun. Not saying he should not be charged, but the application of these laws seems uneven given so many are not charged. That may mean that the law is going to take a harder look at these deaths, which seem to be happening every day now.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014477845#post89
I don't see any difference in this case, and this Uncle appeared to have done everything right, including keeping it out of sight, except the gun was loaded.
Walker was a law-abiding gun owner, did it all the right way, even had a CCW. But it wasn't called an accident, was it?
My conclusion is that just being 'blah' in the USA carries an inherently unjust penalty.
There is something seriously wrong with all of this. That mom thinks it's hilarious. No matter how
many children are wounded or die daily from this, they won't give up those guns.Now the law says melting down guns is wrong. Guns are people. People are just target practice.
Saving the sacred gun from harm, it must fulfill its mission. As far as the child goes, mothers now
teach their children guns are for teething on.
Nothing to see here, move along.
NRA President Charlton Heston had the answer!
In the end, Leiningen saved his plantation by blowing up a dam and flooding it. But the gun reference was too much to resist.
'Crazy as a June Bug' Louie Gohmert's future or former reincarnation:
+1. And will do so in every state the teaparty has majority.
A video was posted in which someone filmed Paul Ryan, a Koch brothers lackey all the way, meeting his followers and put it on youtube.
He began with the anchor baby argument, but at :55 in the video, he says their goal is to turn enough states red to get them to pass a repeal of the 14th Amendment. He framed it in terms of illegals because of welfare, but this much more dangerous than it first appears.
Those people ate it up, because that's how they get the lower in society to vote for what they want, division based on hatred. But consider the other clauses in the 14th upon which many of our rights depend.
In addition to the Reconstruction part of the Amendment there is Birthright Citizenship, and the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses. We know what their intentions on voting rights have been; their assaults on the poor and every kind of 'minority' civil rights. They wouldn' stop at ending birthright citizenship, or any form of gender rights, labor or environmental protections.
They want this country back to something far older, oppressive than most of us ever knew. Here is the video, the thread and my further comments. I hope that people will listen to this:
Paul Ryan Casually Drops This Slur And Shows The GOP's Effort To 'Reach Out' Is B.S.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017117146
My comment here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017117146#post3
Think two steps ahead, this is not just about bigotry. They know that will garner attention of those who believe they need to discriminate and those who are resisting that. While we must resist, think long-term.
It's always about money and power with all the works of the Koch brothers, their candiates and ALEC.
This is what is being planned in the private rooms and country clubs across this nation. They have the money and a plan. We must mobilize and keep going, not get demoralized by every passing thing that the media tells us. They are playing for keeps.
They bought the Governor of Michigan. He's their local robosigner. What they want, they get.
Not only that, they created the Tea Party of whole cloth, got the media to make them mainstream and demogogued their way into power in 2010. Synder is part of that election, just like Walker in WI, Rand Paul of KY and others.
This dangerous pile of waste is why the Libertarian Party, founded by Koches, wants to get rid of the EPA and also to sell everything to these fascists.
Yet their interpretation of civil libertarianism is widely praised, too bad about those minorities, women, the poor and disabled. But with 'liberty' only for the rich, misery for the rest of us. They go out of their way to take the vote from us, if they get their way it won't matter, the ones with the power of life and death will corporatists and theocrats.
And the planet be damned, to hell with regulations of any kind for the civil rights or health of others, as it interferes with their 'freedom' to be rich.
How Freedom Became Tyranny
Rightwing libertarians have turned “freedom” into an excuse for greed and exploitation.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th December 2011
Freedom: who could object? Yet this word is now used to justify a thousand forms of exploitation. Throughout the rightwing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word excuses every assault on the lives of the poor, every form of inequality and intrusion to which the 1% subject us. How did libertarianism, once a noble impulse, become synonymous with injustice?
In the name of freedom – freedom from regulation – the banks were permitted to wreck the economy. In the name of freedom, taxes for the super-rich are cut. In the name of freedom, companies lobby to drop the minimum wage and raise working hours. In the same cause, US insurers lobby Congress to thwart effective public healthcare; the government rips up our planning laws; big business trashes the biosphere. This is the freedom of the powerful to exploit the weak, the rich to exploit the poor.
Right-wing libertarianism recognises few legitimate constraints on the power to act, regardless of the impact on the lives of others. In the UK it is forcefully promoted by groups like the TaxPayers’ Alliance, the Adam Smith Institute, the Institute of Economic Affairs and Policy Exchange(2). Their conception of freedom looks to me like nothing but a justification for greed.
So why have we been been so slow to challenge this concept of liberty? I believe that one of the reasons is as follows. The great political conflict of our age – between neocons and the millionaires and corporations they support on one side and social justice campaigners and environmentalists on the other – has been mischaracterised as a clash between negative and positive freedoms...
http://www.monbiot.com/2011/12/19/how-freedom-became-tyranny/
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