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[Wyrd of Gawd]

I agree with the first sentence.  The second?  How many dead children are you willing to tolerate in the name of gun rights?  I would submit that one is too many but we can negotiate on the number.

Personally, I can't tolerate children dying from guns - or any other manner as far as that goes. As far as negligent deaths resulting from irresponsible parents, mandatory training prior to purchasing/owning a gun could help. Those that can't deal with the "hassle" of training don't need to own one anyway. On any occasion you hear of a kid finding a gun and then shooting himself or someone else, you have a situation where a fucktard is being totally irresponsible and criminally negligent (my opinion).

The crux of this problem is what measures can realistically be taken to avoid these incidents while still respecting the millions of people who responsibly own a gun for sporting, recreational, and self-defense purposes. Add to that the fact that there are about as many guns as there are Americans and it presents an even larger issue. The cat is already out of the bag, as it were.

Now, if you're pointing to mass shootings and criminal acts that result in dead children, I'd posit that has more to do with American culture, guaranteed fame through media exposure, and other factors than it does with the availability of guns. I'm not saying that the availability is a non-issue, only the less dominant one in the specific phenomena of mass shootings.

In the Star Wars movies the Jedi gave real light sabers to kids.  If a kid was a lousy fighter the other kid sliced him up.  Everything in the universe owns dangerous weapons.  Some woman in Las Vegas just ran over 37 people.  No one is calling for a ban on cars.  If she had shot 37 people the nuts would be foaming at the mouth calling for all kinds of gun confiscation.