Two days ago in Weissport I was behind a van with a bumper sticker that said, “Clinton lied and 4 Americans died.” I wonder if that driver would be willing to put my proposed sticker on his van.
On Tuesday in Milwaukee Patrice Price was fatally shot by her 2-year-old while she was driving her car. In the week that ended on Tuesday, a 3-year-old in Georgia, a 3-year-old in Louisiana, a 2-year-old in Missouri, and a 2-year-old in Indiana fatally shot themselves.
Why can’t the N.R.A. support a system like the one we have for drivers’ licenses? You need to pass a test before you can drive. You might not be the best driver, but at least you have some minimum qualifications which you have demonstrated.
While it would seem to me to be common sense that you wouldn’t leave a loaded gun around a child, evidently people do not know that. They need lessons. They need training.
We live in a country in which children have access to guns and one of the most powerful interest groups in Washington evidently sees nothing wrong with that.
See Richard Perez-Peña, “A Toddler, a Loose Gun in a Car, And a Mother Is Shot to Death, New York Times, (Apr. 29, 2016), p. A10.
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