This is just deeply wrong.
Meanwhile, a three-year old boy in South Carolina died after he and his sister confused a pink handgun for a toy.
A 3-year-old boy in Greenville, South Carolina was shot in the head and killed on Friday after he started playing with a pink handgun because he thought it was a toy. […]
Deputy Coroner Jeff Fowler ruled the shooting an accidental homicide.
Fowler said that the shooting happened in a bedroom, while the boy’s grandparents were in the living room. The parents were not at home at the time.
WTF? The grandparents are in the next room, and the gun is not locked away. By the way, why do manufacturers make these bizarrely decorated guns? To market them to women and girls, of course. Expand the market. Color me disgusted and appalled.
What is also dangerous about these “colored” guns is cops may not take them as real weapons and not take proper precautions.
Airsoft, bb and other “non lethal” lookalike weapons are required to have an orange tip on the barrel so cops don’t accidentally shoot you.
I am surprised cops aren’t lobbying against these ridiculous marketing ploys. Maybe the are. I don’t know but I will bet the NRA thinks they are ok despite the obvious gun safety issue they pose. I thought gun safety was a big part of their mission.
The NRA’s mission is to sell more guns. Gun safety was so 20th Century.
Accidental. That means that no one gets prosecuted for negligence. The kid is dead, and the perps get off scott-free.
That’s deeply wrong. If your careless and reckless negligence leads to a death, you should do a minimum of 5-7 years. If you carelessly strike someone with your car, you are in jail. Why are guns different?
Why indeed?
Actually you can be charged and convicted of manslaughter or negligent homocide for causing an accidental homocide.
Accidental homocide describes the cause of death, not the criminality of it.
Similarly if you shoot and kill a lunatic who comes after you with a knife it would be ruled a homocide (meaning deliberately killed by someone else, not natural causes, not suicide, not accident, etc.) but also self defense.
I think they advertise them with the slogan “Kill with style” or ” Don’t be caught dead with a gun that doesn’t match your outfit.”
Those things are as bad as candy cigarettes were.
Wonder what the background check form looks like for the buyers. Oh my, silly me, of course they are bought without checks, perhaps even given to young college bound women to use to protect their dorm rooms? There is simply zero about these guns and those that purchase or use them that even whispers sanity.
I think it should be noted that the pink rifle pictured is a custom-made joke that isn’t for sale.
Leaving guns where a 3-year-old can reach them is moronic and unsafe even if the gun isn’t pink.
This one may be customized.
And this one http://a4.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/119/4f04abfdfc27489f9239f931c05f411f/l.jpg
There is even a category on Hello Kitty Hell http://www.kittyhell.com/category/hello-kitty-guns/
Or if you dont mind missing out on the hello kitty pick a pink gun for the little girl at walmart http://www.amazon.com/Daisy-Outdoor-Products-Pink-Black/dp/B001C0TUQM%3FSubscriptionId%3D19BAZMZQFZJ
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You know its good because there is a 5 star review of a woman who bought it for her 9Y old daughter.
If you want pink handguns: http://www.gunsamerica.com/Search.htm?T=pink+guns
Just for the irony and guaranteed to piss of liberals!!
Or here http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/index.php/cPath/21_801
here http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/index.php/cPath/21_801
And for the gun haters there is a non-lethal alternative http://www.squidoo.com/cute-pink-pepper-spray
Thats from 2 google searches, i guess the free market knows pink is all the rage. The AR15 may be custom, but there is a plethora of choice to get your pink guns.
Can’t wait for the SpongeBob version.
The Hello Kitty franchise should be embarrassed to death.