On May 20, 1:44 pm, Yak <
y...@inbox.com> wrote:
> On May 20, 12:46 pm, "Sid9" <sid9@
bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> > North Carolina 2-year-old puts dad's unattended gun in his mouth and fires
>
> > By David Edwards
> > Monday, May 20, 2013 9:55 EDT
>
> > A 2-year-old boy in North Carolina is expected to survive after shooting
> > himself with his father's gun over the weekend.
>
> > Randolph County deputies said that the toddler found the handgun in his
> > parents' room at their home just outside Asheboro around 2 p.m. on Saturday.
> > The boy put the gun in his mouth and fired it.
>
> > According to WGHP, the boy was listed in critical condition Brenner Children's
> > Hospital in Winston-Salem on Sunday, but was expected to live.
>
> > "The bullet missed all the vital arteries there in the neck in the head and
> > also missed the spinal cords, so I said it's a miracle the child is still
> > with us," Randolph County Sheriff's Office Captain Derrick Hill explained to
> > WGHP.
>
> > A neighbor told the station that "the good Lord was looking after him."
>
> > The sheriff's and district attorney's offices were considering whether to
> > charge the parents with leaving the firearm unattended
> > =================================
> > Where was the good lord to prevent this from happening?
>
> > --
>
> > "Consider a 1998 study in the "Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery"
> > that found that every time a gun was used in a house in a self defense or
> > legally justifiable shooting there were four unintentional shootings , seven
> > criminal assaults, or homicides, and 11 attempted or completed suicides"
> > from Scientific American May 2013
>
> > "We've got to stop being the stupid party,"
> > the Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal explained.
> > "It's time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults.
>
>> "Facts." John Adams argued "are stubborn things,
> >and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations,
> > or of the dictates of our passion, they cannot
>>alter the state of facts and evidence.
>
> Yeah...and????
Well, I guess it doesn't really matter. Does it ??