Child shoots self with gun thought to be a Wiimote - Page 4

**samejamesbond** · 03-12-2010, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by david man45

And the country was formed because of, and on religious views.

Untrue.
It was based on Liberal thinkers of the Enlightenment period:

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke"]John Locke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire"]Voltaire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith"]Adam Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

**david man45** · 03-12-2010, 12:12 PM

We came for religious freedom.

**samejamesbond** · 03-12-2010, 12:14 PM

Untrue, some did such as the Pilgrims of Plymouth Rock, but others was for a new way of life.

**Kong** · 03-12-2010, 12:21 PM

Stay on topic. Discuss gay marriage here
http://retrouprising.com/other/debat...2-sorta/t2104/

There is also a more in depth topic on gun control
http://retrouprising.com/other/debat...control/t8069/

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Originally Posted by david man45

We came for religious freedom.

More accurately they came to escape religious persecution and even that is not 100% truth. There is no one reason.

1. The country was not founded for the purpose to be a religious nation.
2. What ever the original purpose was doesn't really matter. You don't do something today because people 200 years ago wanted to do it. Make your own world; don't live in someone else's.

umm back on topic

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Should these parents be penalized in any way? Jail time? Allowed to have more children?

Should they be allowed to profit off of it by suing somebody? .

**JonnyBigG** · 03-12-2010, 12:39 PM

In my state we have "Safe Gun Laws". This legislation makes it illegal to leave your guns laying around where they can be accessed by children. This is a terrible tragedy, and no doubt they parents are idiots. That said, we have a peeping tom in our neighborhood and if he gets caught, there will be a line of paople wanting to shoot him.
Guns are like any other tool. I don't sit around playing with a hammer, I only use it when I need it.

**Kugyince** · 03-12-2010, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Kong

Stay on topic. Discuss gay marriage here
http://retrouprising.com/other/debat...2-sorta/t2104/

I was just ready to point that out, thank you.

All future posts on gay marriage in this topic will be deleted.

**JKool** · 03-12-2010, 04:12 PM

Maybe the parents where fighting and left the kid alone.

**DrunkN** · 03-12-2010, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by yasly

Maybe the parents where fighting and left the kid alone.

I believe it's said that the parents were in separate rooms from each other.

**JKool** · 03-12-2010, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by drunkninja

I believe it's said that the parents were in separate rooms from each other.

They could be lieing.

**DrunkN** · 03-12-2010, 05:29 PM

Lying wouldn't help in the slightest.

You don't leave a kid alone with a gun and then tell the police that you weren't watching the kid while you were in the room long enough for the kid to kill herself.