GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

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5-Year-Old Shoots 2-Year-Old Sister in Kentucky


By TRAVIS LOLLER and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press
BURKESVILLE, Ky. May 1, 2013 (AP)
In southern Kentucky, where children get their first guns even before they start first grade, Stephanie Sparks paid little attention as her 5-year-old son, Kristian, played with the rifle he was given last year. Then, as she stepped onto the front porch while cleaning the kitchen, "she heard the gun go off," a coroner said.

In a horrific accident Tuesday that shocked a rural area far removed from the national debate over gun control, the boy had killed his 2-year-old sister, Caroline, with a single shot to the chest.

"Down in Kentucky where we're from, you know, guns are passed down from generation to generation," Cumberland County Coroner Gary White said. "You start at a young age with guns for hunting and everything."

What is more unusual than a child having a gun, he said, is "that a kid would get shot with it."

In this case, the rifle was made by a company that sells guns specifically for children — "My first rifle" is the slogan — in colors ranging from plain brown to hot pink to orange to royal blue to multi-color swirls.

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I'm not trying to make a statement about gun control but...I do wonder about the wisdom of making guns for children that look like toys.