Media's open bias against guns

Ninemsn - A four-year-old girl in the US has shot herself in the chest after snatching her grandmother's handgun from the woman's purse while riding in a shopping cart at a discount store, authorities say. [snip] The girl was rushed to a hospital in critical condition and was recovering on Monday afternoon after surgery, said police department spokesman Brick Lewis. Hospital officials would not release her condition after the operation. Lewis said the grandmother, Donna Hutto Williamson, has a permit to carry a concealed weapon. The purse containing the small-calibre handgun was in the cart near the child, Lewis said. Williamson, 47, was not immediately charged with a crime. Officials said the shooting, which was captured on store surveillance cameras, appeared to be accidental.
I even heard this story on the headline news on local radio yesterday, for most of the day. Oh the terrible, nasty gun has taken another innocent. Why oh why. Let me thrown some inconvenient facts around at the lamestream media. Would we in Australia hear about it if the child was run over by grandma, nope. Would we hear about it if the child was left in the car by grandma, nope. Would we hear about it if the child almost drowned in grandma's pool, nope. Would we hear about it if the child fell from grandma's balcony, nope.

You know what other situation would warrant the lamestream media telling us about this, say grandma was an evil bitch and sold the girl to some pedophile and then helped him rape and murder her. Then grandma and the pedophile are sentenced to death and were waiting on death row but decided they now understood the evil nature of their ways and wanted another chance. Then you'd definitely hear about it and how terrible capital punishment is and how America is the only terrible nation that still does the right thing with criminal scumbags. Here are a few stats that the lamestream media strangely never bring to our attention.
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the fatal firearm accidents per capita rate fell to an all-time low in 1996. The new rate of 0.4 per 100,000 population represents an eighty-eight percent decrease from the all time high recorded in 1904.
Fatal gun accidents are well below rates for other types of fatal accidents:
Motor vehicles - 16.3 per 100,000 population
Falls - 5.6 per 100,000 population
Poisonings - per 100,000 population
Drownings - per 100,000 population
Fires - per 100,000 population
Choking - per 100,000 population
Medial mistakes - per 100,000 population
The number of children age ten and under killed by guns is 0.4 times per day lower than the number of children killed each day by automobiles (in 1995 the number was 2900), drowning (950) or burns (1000).
The media will breathlessly report the gun accident because they don't want you cattle getting any fancy ideas about liberty and all that, wouldn't want you lot taking care of yourself because then there won't be much need for the nanny state and they can't push you around. When I heard about this incident, my initial thoughts were, grandma is a bit of a dumbass, a gun is a lethal weapon, what the hell was she doing leaving a loaded gun within reach of an untrained child! Carrying a gun and the right to bear arms carries with it an enormous responsibility, but unlike lefties, I don't think that you're just a bunch of cattle that can't handle responsibility and need to be herded around like, well, cattle. Here are some more facts for the hysterical gun-grabbers.
Children who are trained in using and respecting guns are less likely to be armed accidentally by a gun. ABC News videotaped an experiment in which two different groups of children were left alone in a room with an unloaded gun. The kids who had gone through the NRA sponsored Eddie Eagle gun safety course left the gun alone. The course teaches that if you encounter a gun you should Stop. Don't touch. Leave the area. And tell an adult.
The second group of kids, who had not taken the course, immediately began playing with the gun, pointing it at each other and pulling the trigger.
As far as I'm concerned it's a matter of grandma waking up to herself and maybe putting the kid through some gun safety training so she doesn't pull a gun out and just pull the trigger. But try that argument with the gun-grabbing lefties, the only training lefties will approve of for children is sex education for toddlers, bullying them to accept that sodomy is perfectly alright, all cultures are equal, whitey is a racist bastard and it's never your fault. Because of an incident like this, the gun-grabbers would much rather all the grannies, their daughters and grand daughters are disarmed and left defenseless so that when the criminal scumbag wants to rob, rape, torture and murder them, it's much easier for him. Sure, they won't admit it publicly, but that's just the reality of gun control.

Source used: Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies.

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