Crickett used in violent slaying of two year old girl

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5-Year-Old Boy Killed Sister With Gun Made For Kids

By Annie-Rose Strasser on May 2, 2013 at 11:00 am

On Tuesday, a five-year-old Kentucky boy accidentally shot and killed his two-year-old sister with a gun he’d been given as a birthday present. The weapon, a small rifle, was manufactured specifically for children’s use.

The boy’s weapon was a “My First Rifle” .22-caliber gun from Keystone Sporting Arms’ youth branch, Crickett. Crickett’s website markets itself “especially for youth shooters.” The firearms come in several neon colors, and the website even has a “kids corner” featuring pictures of small children with guns:

Crickett does not manufacture bullets. The company offers books for “Grades 2-3 and up,” and says their guns are “ideally sized for children four to ten years old.”

The militarization of children has been tragically spotlighted in the aftermath of the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut last December. Since then, the country has paid heart-sickening attention to the myriad accidental shootings that have taken place around the country, and the growth of a market of bulletproof children’s clothing.

In one week alone last month, four people were shot by toddlers.
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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/05/02/1953621/guns-for-kids/?mobile=nc


absolutely breaks my heart
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Parents should be put in prison. If there isn't a law or clause for charging these people with a crime, there should definitely be one. Extremely shytty and dangerous parenting.

Also, definitely should be laws preventing gearing advertising weapons to minors (we do it for cigarettes and tobacco products, and fast food in some cases).

The child should be removed from the custody of both parents as well.

Absolutely horrifying. I have a child near that age and they can't even wipe their own asses properly or color within the lines on a consistent basis.
 
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Man that's sad.

Does it mean we need to ban the Crickett? No.

And no, this doesn't mean that the parents need to be locked up or have their son taken away from them. The fact is that sad sh!t happens in life, sorry it's just true. We can all just stay in our homes, never to go out, throw out all our weapons, sharp kitchen utensils along with our pressure cooker pots. . . And guess what? Sad sh!t will still happen.
 
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Man that's sad.

Does it mean we need to ban the Crickett? No.

And no, this doesn't mean that the parents need to be locked up or have their son taken away from them. The fact is that sad sh!t happens in life, sorry it's just true. We can all just stay in our homes, never to go out, throw out all our weapons, sharp kitchen utensils along with our pressure cooker pots. . . And guess what? Sad sh!t will still happen.
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Yes, lets give all the children Crickets.


Maybe even semi automatic Crickets!

Children and guns are horrible mix.

This death was avoidable .
 
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Meta Reign said:
Man that's sad.

Does it mean we need to ban the Crickett? No.

And no, this doesn't mean that the parents need to be locked up or have their son taken away from them. The fact is that sad sh!t happens in life, sorry it's just true. We can all just stay in our homes, never to go out, throw out all our weapons, sharp kitchen utensils along with our pressure cooker pots. . . And guess what? Sad sh!t will still happen.
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Nah fukk that. No need to advertise a rifle to a child, with pretty colors and shyt. No need to return the 5 year old to the custody of the parents who gave him a loaded firearm and left him unsupervised. A five year old.

Those parents should be charged and convicted.

You're telling me that these parents:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/python-owners-12-years-girls-strangle-death/story?id=14373295#.UYMSpCugm5I

Got 12 years for having a python, not feeding it/securing it properly, and then the animal strangled their child.

You're telling me there isn't a law for giving a 5 year old a loaded weapon, that requires proper training and understand of its use, and leaving that child unsupervised with it?
 
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