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Kids Shoot the Darndest Things
The Only Way to Combat America’s Gun Culture Is to Kill It
I just know she's in heaven right now, and I know she's in the good hands of the Lord," a grieving Linda Riddle told Lexington, Kentucky's WLEX about her granddaughter, Caroline Sparks. The day before, on April 30, 2-year-old Caroline had been shot dead by her 5-year-old brother, Kristian.
"It's God's will," lamented Riddle. "It was her time to go, I guess."
Maybe. But if so, it's shit like this that makes me want to shoot God right through the fucking head.
Caroline's death was only the most prominent in our nation's recent epidemic of toddler gun violence. On April 6, Wilson County, Tennessee, sheriff's deputy Daniel Fanning was reportedly showing off his weapons collection to a relative when his 4-year-old nephew grabbed a loaded pistol off the bed and killed Fanning's wife, Josephine, with a single shot. Three days later, in Toms River, New Jersey, police say a 4-year-old boy fatally shot his 6-year-old playmate in the head with a .22-caliber rifle, as their parents watched horrified from a nearby yard.
And this month, the child-on-child gun violence continued. On May 7, a 3-year-old Hillsborough County, Florida, boy reportedly shot himself dead with his uncle's 9mm handgun. The next day, in Houston, Texas, a 5-year-old boy shot his 7-year-old brother through the back with a rusty bolt-action rifle while the two were taking a bath. The day after that, in Corsicana, Texas, police say a 2-year-old boy died after shooting himself in the head with his father's handgun. On May 18, a 2-year-old Asheboro, North Carolina, boy grabbed his father's gun, put it in his mouth, and pulled the trigger.
Bang!
Bang! Bang!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Five dead, two wounded. All at the hands of children ages 5 and younger.
If this is all God's will, he's a coldhearted motherfucker. But me, I blame America's stupid fucking gun culture and the greedy, sociopathic gun industry that promotes it.
In the roughly five months since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre shocked the nation, our gun culture has relentlessly claimed another 4,228 American lives. At least. In lieu of an accurate government tally, these figures were compiled by the crowdsourced @GunDeaths project. But most suicides, which make up about 60 percent of all gun deaths, go unreported, so the total gun-death toll is likely much higher. For the record: 82 of these reported post–Sandy Hook gun deaths were children and another 207 were teens.
Even at this dramatically underreported gun-death rate, America is still suffering the collective equivalent of another Sandy Hook every 27 hours.
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