07-01-2015, 11:51 AM
(07-01-2015, 07:54 AM)F.U. Dont ask again Wrote: I don't understand what changed since I was a kid. I mean my parents had firearms all over the place [ my dad was a gun dealer]. Ammo everywhere. Taught me how to shoot and reload ammo by the time I was 7. We watched old shoot-em-up westerns, or war movies. We all had toy guns and played cowboys and indians, played war, had bb gun wars. But we weren't shooting each other or our self with real firearms. What has changed that make kids now a days do it where as we did not ? If we could find the answer to that question we might also find the answer.
Little kids have always been shooting themselves with loaded guns, there just wasn't as much coverage and awareness of the problem back when you were a kid.
Because the CODs are all over the board, it's impossible to say with certainty whether it's happening more or less these days. I think some modern guns are easier to fire, and that may result in younger children pulling the trigger more frequently than in the past. But, it might also be true that more modern guns have safeties, so it's happening less frequently. In either case, the fact is that it is happening.
Just because a problem wasn't in the public eye back in the day, doesn't mean it didn't exist, obviously. It is however wrong not to address it rationally today and instead deny it exists, try to justify it rather than solve it, or ignore it altogether when the problem results in serious harm or death to children, IMO.