April 9, 2015
By Nathan J. Robinson
...Over the past year, (click here) new studies and media reports have documented America’s extraordinary number of child-involved shootings. These occur when a child happens upon a gun, or is left alone with one, and ends up shooting themselves or another person. Such disasters result in hundreds of child fatalities and have made American children nine times more likely to die in gun accidents than children anywhere else in the developed world. These deaths pose a massive challenge for the NRA. They demonstrate fairly conclusively that guns cannot be both safe and ubiquitous; the inevitable consequence of widespread gun ownership is a never-ending series of tragedies involving children. But, desperate to insist there’s nothing wrong, the NRA has proved itself totally incapable of responding to the problem....
President Obama's response to audience participation during the Anderson Cooper Town Hall regarding guns in the USA, was spot on.
The answer to sexual assault is not conceal carry and bring guns into a family's home, but, to return to a place of feeling safe again. Sexual assault does not happen everyday. Women can protect themselves in many ways including being aware of their circumstances before walking alone.
A woman can recuperate from sexual assault emotionally and cognitively, but, they can't bring back a child killed accidentally with a gun.
By Nathan J. Robinson
...Over the past year, (click here) new studies and media reports have documented America’s extraordinary number of child-involved shootings. These occur when a child happens upon a gun, or is left alone with one, and ends up shooting themselves or another person. Such disasters result in hundreds of child fatalities and have made American children nine times more likely to die in gun accidents than children anywhere else in the developed world. These deaths pose a massive challenge for the NRA. They demonstrate fairly conclusively that guns cannot be both safe and ubiquitous; the inevitable consequence of widespread gun ownership is a never-ending series of tragedies involving children. But, desperate to insist there’s nothing wrong, the NRA has proved itself totally incapable of responding to the problem....
President Obama's response to audience participation during the Anderson Cooper Town Hall regarding guns in the USA, was spot on.
The answer to sexual assault is not conceal carry and bring guns into a family's home, but, to return to a place of feeling safe again. Sexual assault does not happen everyday. Women can protect themselves in many ways including being aware of their circumstances before walking alone.
A woman can recuperate from sexual assault emotionally and cognitively, but, they can't bring back a child killed accidentally with a gun.
