GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

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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.

That's where we will disagree. I do not believe it was a problem back in the day. I believe it is a relatively new issue. If there was a issue in those days the media would have ben on it like a duck on a junebug. After all its all about the ratings and death brings a increase in ratings.
IMO , This all seamed to change about the time that parents were told they couldn't whoop their kids ass as punishment. In my days we would have gotten our asses whooped so hard we wouldn't be able to sit for a week, had we touched a gun without a adult there. Now all you can do is talk to the kid or scold them. Big F'n deal.
Then you add in the realistic video games they play nowadays that they can pick out the gun they want to kill people with and start gunning down people , instead of the good old pong game that I had and it teaches kids its fun to kill.
In my day we were trained in proper safe handling of a firearm and were allowed to shoot them often. Nowadays its not politically correct to talk about your kid having a firearm, let alone teach them how to shoot one. Hell the kids will get in trouble now for a pop tart pistol where I was able to take a real 1911 45 acp to grade school and do a presentation on how to disassemble and reassemble it. I just couldn't bring the ammo to school, and that was in 6^th grade.
We were even taught about guns at the boys club in those days. We had bb gun competitions, as well as 22 rifle competitions right there in the range at the boys club. No parents were required to attend these events. Just 1 adult to monitor a dozen or more pre teens with firearms in hand.
So I don't think there was a problem with this back in the day, and I was raised in those times and seen what went on. Where as today, even with the modern guns that do have loaded chamber and ready to fire indicators , like mentioned above, it seams to be a common occurrence .
Unless you can show me hard facts against my thinking I will never believe it.