Re: => Negligence by "trained agents" becomes a crime once they become unemployed!

Jim Bianchi <jimbo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Sun, 11 May 2008 21:54:03 -0700, Bo Raxo wrote:
>> 
>> "Jim Alder" <jimalder@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "Bo Raxo" <crimenewscenter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> "Benj" <bjacoby@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> om... 
>>>>> On May 9, 9:44 pm, "_ Prof. Jonez _" <thep...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>> Boy, 5, Shoots Little Sister After Fight
>>>>>>
>>>>>> May 9, 2008, 1:55 PM PDT
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Indianapolis -- A man whose 5-year-old son accidentally shot and
>>>>>> killed his sister was arrested at the cemetery before the little
>>>>>> girl's burial.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> James Michael Booher faces charges that include child neglect for
>>>>>> allegedly leaving a semiautomatic handgun where his son could
>>>>>> find it. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi says 26-year-old Booher
>>>>>> should have been more careful in keeping the gun away from his
>>>>>> son. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> He says that is true especially since the boy had taken the gun
>>>>>> from atop a refrigerator and shot a bullet into a kitchen cabinet
>>>>>> eight months ago.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Police say her brother climbed up to the top shelf of a bookcase
>>>>>> to get the gun. Then shot his 4-year-old Makayla in the face.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Booher was being held in the Marion County Jail on three counts
>>>>>> of felony neglect. He faces up to 56 years in prison.
>>>>>
>>>>> Facts are Booher had the gun as a security guard and thus
>>>>> qualified with the "training" that the "gun control" crowd demand
>>>>> as a qualification for gun owner****p.  Booher had a hint that the
>>>>> 5 year old had picked up a fascination with guns from TV when the
>>>>> boy previously retrieved the gun and fired into a kitchen cabinet.
>>>>
>>>> The gun control crowd wants people who let a child access a loaded
>>>> gun to be prosecuted. The first time this 5 year old managed to get
>>>> his hands on a loaded gun, the gun owner should have been charged
>>>> with a felony, and lost his right to possess a firearm.
>>>
>>>    Of course. There could be no other solution.
>>>   Or...
>>>
>>>    The first time the 5 year old climbed up on top of the fridge and
>>>    got 
>>> the gun, the father should have spent a few bucks on a pistol safe.
>>> Not as satisfying as taking away a person's rights, but just as
>>> effective. More so, actually.
>>>
>> 
>> I like it. How about if he did it *before* the first time the kid
>> found the gun.  Duh!
>  
>      I like that. Makes sense..
> 
>> But the only way that would happen is if the law required him to do
>> so . 
> 
>      The law also requires one to be licensed in order to drive a
>      motor 
> vehicle. The law also mandates newly sold cars have safety equip. Yet
> people still manage to stack up the family car with amazing
> regularity. And the rate of auto fatalities/injuries doesn't seem
> to've gone down much since airbags or seatbelts, anti-lock brakes, etc
> were mandated.

<quote 
src="http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/23/autos/traffic_deaths_down/index.htm"

date="July 23 2007">
Traffic deaths in the United States dropped to a record low last year, 
according to figures released Monday by the Department of Trans****tation.
</quote>

And check here:

    	http://www.dot.state.ia.us/mvd/ods/2006speedstudy.pdf

for a 2006 study that showed that midwestern states that increased their 
speed limits in 1995 had an increase in traffic fatalities, while those 
that didn't had a decrease.

But, hey, don't let the facts get in your way.  As they say, reality has 
a liberal bias.

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