HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – A 4-year-old girl is dead after investigators say she found a gun in a closet and accidentally shot herself in northwest Harris County, Texas Thursday night.

  • Paradoxeuh@jlai.lu
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    14 hours ago

    To be honest, that’s even worse that unreasonable. The level of individualism needed to think that your gun is a better protection than banning gun can only exist in USA.

    • Courtney (she/her/they) @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      13 hours ago

      My gun protects me, my family, and people like me from bigots who have proven they will try to murder me for simply thinking I might vote differently.

      In fact, in my state someone did just that last year. Murdered his neighbor because he thought the neighbor might vote for a Democrat.

      So while I agree on principle, in practice, I’ll give my guns up when I don’t have to worry about Republicans breaking down my door.

      But then, I practice proper firearm etiquette and lock them up, and no children are ever in my house to begun with. These parents are 100% responsible for the death of their child, no question about it. In a sane country, this wouldn’t have happened.

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        10 hours ago

        I just recently did the same. Not murder someone, but went ahead and picked up a few guns. Truthfully, the orange pedophile fan base crowd scares the shit out of me. I live in a republitard state and the amount of assholes here is enormous. So. They have guns. They think they have all the power. Fuck it. I’ll protect mine and what I believe in just as zealous as they do. And if it comes down to it. We will see who’s left.

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            4 hours ago

            I plan on it. First thing is taking them in to get cleaned and inspected by a gun smith. Since 3 of the 4 I have were bought privately. Then either going to an indoor range, or if the weather stops raining for a minute then heading to the place I normally shoot and see how they perform. I do have experience shooting, but haven’t owned my own firearm for a few years.