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TexasTowelie

(117,233 posts)
Sun Feb 26, 2017, 09:50 AM Feb 2017

Louisiana among states without gun owner responsibility laws

Journee' Campbell's story is shockingly similar to others across Louisiana. A child is unintentionally shot in Louisiana at a rate higher than every other state except Alaska, according to The Associated Press and the USA TODAY Network, which analysed accidental shootings involving children ages 17 and younger from 2014 to June of 2016.

Unlike many other places in the nation, Louisiana has no laws specifically addressing parental responsibility for guns.

“We don’t have the gun owner responsibility and parental responsibility statutes that many other states have,” East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore III said.

Child access prevention laws in 27 states and Washington, D.C., impose criminal liability on adults who give children unsupervised access to firearms, according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a San Francisco based nonprofit.

Read more: http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_550e13ba-faaa-11e6-9b50-937ec83b5511.html

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Louisiana among states without gun owner responsibility laws (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2017 OP
Ignorant white wing racists need their guns readily available for every fear they imagine. Hoyt Feb 2017 #1
 

Hoyt

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1. Ignorant white wing racists need their guns readily available for every fear they imagine.
Sun Feb 26, 2017, 12:31 PM
Feb 2017

And, the right of daddy to introduce their kids into the gun culture shall not be infringed.

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