Jones also declined to reveal details of the shooting, or say how the boy got access to the gun or who owns the weapon. “This is a red flag for the country,” Jones said. [More]
A red flag for the country as in he wants to mass confiscate guns without due process, or a red flag for the country as in everybody better take that as a signal of tyrannical intent and prepare accordingly?
Convenient, isn’t it, how they can use the little aberration’s age to mask relevant details that will prove to all but the fanatical and the stupid that this is not a “gun problem” and hardly representative of the country outside of “progressive” enclaves?
[Via Jess]
UPDATE
Who let this idiot into the country?
“A 6 year old gaining access to a loaded gun and shooting him/herself or someone else, sadly, is not so rare,” he said in an email.”
Bullshit.
In fact, many years’ datasets show that fewer children up to age 5 die from handgun accidents (~5 annually) than are killed while DRIVING (that’s right, DRIVING) motor vehicles (~9 annually).