| inbluevt | Date: Monday, 2013/05/06, 11:07 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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On Tuesday, inside a rural Kentucky home, a five-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his two-year-old sister. The boy had been playing with a .22 caliber single-shot Crickett rifle made and marketed for kids. The children's mother was reportedly outside the house when the shooting
took place, and apparently didn't know that the gun contained a shell.
"Just one of those crazy accidents," said the Cumberland County coroner, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Clearly the issue of parental responsibility is at the center of this tragedy. But against the backdrop of the Newtown massacre and ongoing national debate over regulating firearms, it also points back to the big business of guns—including how the industry profits from products aimed at children.
Read the whole article
For the moment it seems Crickett's website is gone. Odd.
Message edited by inbluevt - Monday, 2013/05/06, 11:08 AM |
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