I thought you Americans would like to know why we have such incredibly cowardly gun laws in Europe. I link to a discussion on one of the most pro-gun forums in Sweden and you can read for yourself. You'll understand most of it with Google Translate.
Four year old shot his sister in the USA
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I couldn't get it to tranlate the whole forum, but here is a translation of the article they are discussing:
Four-year-old shot his sister in the U.S.
Av TT Of TT
Publicerad 25 juli 2009 16.31 | Uppdaterad 25 juli 2009 16.44 Published July 25, 2009 16.31 | Updated July 25, 2009 16.44
STOCKHOLM. STOCKHOLM. En tvåårig flicka i Las Vegas svävar mellan liv och död efter att ha skjutits i bröstet av sin fyraårige bror. A two-year old girl in Las Vegas hovers between life and death having been shot in the chest of his four-year brother.
I South Carolina sköts en fyraårig pojke i magen av sin treårige lillebror. In South Carolina shot a four-year-old boy in the stomach of his three year younger brother.
Båda olyckorna skedde i torsdags kväll i USA, och båda har samma orsak: Föräldrar som låter laddade pistoler ligga framme så att barnen kan få tag i dem. Both accidents occurred on Thursday evening in the U.S., and both have the same cause: Parents who allow loaded guns lie ahead so that children can get hold of them.
Den skadade pojken från Gray Court i South Carolina, vars bror hittade en pistol under en säng, fördes till sjukhus i helikopter och opererades. The injured boy from Gray Court, South Carolina, whose brother found a gun under a bed, was taken to hospital in the helicopter and operated. Enligt polisen kommer han att klara sig, rapporterar BBC. According to police, he will survive, reports the BBC.
Värre ser det ut för den tvååriga flickan, vars tillstånd är kritiskt. Unfortunately, it looks for the two-year girl, whose condition is critical.
Åtal har inte väckts mot föräldrarna i något av fallen. Prosecution has not been brought against the parents of any of the cases.
De två vådaskotten inträffade mindre än en vecka efter att en femårig pojke dog efter att ha skjutit sig i huvudet med en pistol som han hittade i pappans bil. The two accidentally shoots occurred less than a week after a five-year-old boy died after shooting themselves in the head with a gun which he found in his father's car. I det fallet har åtal väckts för äventyrande av barns säkerhet. In that case, the charge of compromising children's safety.
I USA är rätten att bära vapen inskriven i konstitutionen. In the U.S. the right to bear arms enshrined in the Constitution. Man räknar med att det finns mer än 200 miljoner skjutvapen i privata händer, detta i ett land med cirka 306 miljoner invånare. It is estimated that there are more than 200 million firearms in private hands, this in a country with approximately 306 million inhabitants.
Apparently, much of the rest of the world pictures us as a bunch of cowboys in the old Wild West and their media uses propaganda to perpetuate this myth.
I think that this guy made sense:
The problem that causes this kind of tragedy is that the liberals who control both the USA and Sweden want to remove the weapons from the people. Weapons must be something dangerous and mythology that only the police and the crooks are. This means that you create an environment where ordinary people do not have a natural relationship with the weapons and the knowledge on how to act on weapons and how to teach their children from an early age to handle weapons.
A three-year-or four-year-old will not of course deal with weapons, at least not without adult control, but they still need to know how to behave around guns. They should know that if they encounter a gun they should get an adult who can take care of the gun, or are they in all cases, leave the room where he is.
As adults, we must also know that children are smart and attentive, they will know where the gun is hidden, or were the keys to the weapons cabinet is. therefore must have procedures about guns that makes the children not to access the weapons and that, if they access the weapons do not think they are exciting, but lets them be.
In a healthy society included weapons vett in kindergarten and school education so that citizens can handle weapons, in all cases secure and charge them. and so that they can educate children to act safely around firearms.
Such a society will be a demystify the firearms and weapons can not demystify power play on fear of the unknown in order to gradually get rid of the honest citizens' ownership of weapons through propaganda and legislation.
