10 year old shoots 9 year old sister in face over chips with dad's shotgun

[minionofmidas]

I'm sure she deserved it.

[minionofmidas]

As fa as I see it, no gun in house, no gun accidentally in child's possession, no sister shot.

You could argue that he could have found a gun another way, but somehow I doubt that there'd be that much effort put in by the kid.

Right, because guns are the only weapon in a home that a nut could get a hole of and seriously harm a family memeber.

One quick squeeze of a trigger does a lot more damage than one stab.

One quick swipe with a sharp kitchen knife across the throat is all it takes to bleed a person to death. The human body is actually quite fragile and has a number of places where a single stab or slash can result in death.

Psychologically, it's far easier to fire a gun to kill someone than to use a knife to kill someone.

If you're pissed off a single slash of a knife might be just as easy as pulling a trigger. In this case we've got an irrational 10 year old who seems to have been having a bit of a tantrum.

You're both mistaken. It's certainly not "far easier" to fire a gun than to use a knife.

But it requires far less expertise (and is probably psychologically easier, too) to make a lot of damage with it, except by random chance.

[minionofmidas]

To put things into perspective:

The year before the so called Assault Weapons Ban went into effect, more people were murdered by pillows than the guns prohibited under the ban.

This statement is demonstrably untrue.

Look up the definitions of "murdered" and "by", and it is plainly evident that 0 persons were murdered by pillows, which is the same number - and therefore not "more" - than were murdered by the guns prohibited under tha ban.