An early Christmas present arrives: antigun and antihunting advocate Wally John was fired from his political appointment at the DEC.
Brian Kolb plugs Legislative Awareness Day here and here.
Two children playing with a parents handgun results in unintentional discharge and death. Mouthpiece from New Yorkers Against Guns exploits tragedy by advocating mandatory storage.
Alan Chartock predicts “a reporter will be jailed on a gun charge” in ’11.
Remington has a new cartridge coming out for AR-pattern rifles, the .300 AAC Blackout, while SIG will be making a .50 cal rifle.
My heart goes out to the childs’ family.
Did the school include “Eddie Eagle” in it’s curriculum?
I don’t know. I know some do, but not of any in Saratoga Co.
Markie Marxist sez: “Of course my commie compadres at NYAGV want mandatory safe storage! It helps keep our Marxist/warrior/hero/criminals safe!”
In the interest of unfairness, Pravda on the Hudson doesn’t allow comments directly on the story of the child that was killed, but they are allowing, at least for now, comments at their “Parent to Parent blog”: http://blog.timesunion.com/parenting/
I posted this comment:
When someone points a loaded gun at someone else’s head and pulls the trigger, it’s usually called murder.
That the shooter was young does not automatically excuse this as an accident, unless one is predisposed to blame the gun or the gun owner instead of the one person who did everything that he needed to do to kill someone.
It’s terribly wrong to send the message to youngsters that they can shoot someone in the head and have it regarded as purely unintentional merely because of their age.
The boy claims that he didn’t know it was loaded; we don’t know if he’s telling the truth about that, but we do know for a fact that he didn’t know it was empty.
TU is, for now, allowing comments at this version of the story:
http://blog.timesunion.com/crime/sheriff-boy-finds-fathers-gun-accidently-kills-friend/
I posted this:
What if the kid took the keys to the family car and ran over his friend? What if he stabbed his friend with a kitchen knife? What if he “accidentally” hanged his friend with a noose while playing that dangerous new “choking game” that kids are playing? Would someone be prosecuted for not locking up his car keys or kitchen knives, or clothesline? Not likely, because there’s no political agenda against cars, kitchen knives, or clothesline, even though they can be perfectly lethal.
However, gun owners have long been a political target for the most vicious, politically motivated abuse, as an integral part of the leftist political agenda, so the calls for even more government action to be taken against gun owners come immediately, as in several posts here.
The father of the boy who was killed said that he just wished he had been able to know if the family had a gun in the house. The official, New York State Police hit list of licensed gun owners is already a matter of public record, which is how the Times Union got the information. The abuse of legal gun owners by stripping them of privacy has already been inflicted on licensed gun owners in NYS – by law. If the father had wanted to know if there was a gun in the house, he could have looked that up and seen that there was a licensed gun owner at that address, so his wish for that information was nothing more substantial than just an afterthought. New calls for creating a public list of gun owners are based on ignorance of existing law. Gun owners have already been abused that way, and what good did it do in this case?
Those who exercise their right to keep and bear arms under the US Constitution as Americans, despite living in left-leaning New York, should be entitled to privacy. Public lists of gun owners may be abused, but they do no good, as was obvious in this case.