"Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett released a statement Wednesday afternoon on the
shooting.
'It's despicable. It's sickening. A 6-year-old is lying in a hospital bed right now recovering from a gunshot wound he suffered at the hands of a 3-year-old. Why were these kids unattended at 10 at night? How did they have access to a gun, an illegal gun? We are talking about children here; children who are in very real, very immediate danger because of illegal guns. If this doesn’t compel people to open their eyes to the epidemic of violence caused
by illegal guns, I don’t know what will,' Barrett said."
A couple months ago, Bill O'Reilly and Geraldo got into a debate about a fatal accident that involved a drunk driver that was an illegal alien. At the time, Geraldo pointed out that it wasn't a matter of the driver being illegal, the problem was that he was drunk and he was driving. While I think that gun control is important, I think the same could be said about this case. It is sad that this event happened, but the nature of the legality of the fire arm really isn't the problem.
The problem is that you have children that have been left alone with a loaded gun. That is the problem that caused this shooting. If you think about the gun, it could have been a legal fire arm, and it would have been just as dangerous to leave it alone with children. Unless you can connect the legality of the gun, in some way to this tragedy - a way in which a legal gun wouldn't have been connected, I don't buy it.
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