>>>>The gun hysterics have lost what was left if their minds.
>>>>
>>>>As if these weren't stupid enough:
>>>>http://abcnews.go.com/US/maryland-grader-suspended-pointing-finger-shape-gun/story?id=18123294
>>>>http://news.yahoo.com/seven-old-boy-lobs-pretend-grenade-during-recess-141128205.html
>>>>http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2013/01/03/dennys-kick-out-belleville-police-for-being-armed/
>>>>http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_central_southern_az/florence/florence-student-suspended-over-picture-of-gun
>>>>http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/01/kindergartner-suspended-over-bubble-gun-threat/
>>>>
>>>>Now this...
>>>>http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2012/08/28/family-school-made-deaf-child-change-sign-name-said-it-looked-like-gun/
>>>>
>>>>It's nice to see the ACLU finally standing up for a civil liberty. If only it didn't take a deaf child to get them off their asses.
>>>
>>>Children and guns - reminded me of this: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/09/us/tennessee-gun-death/index.html
>>>
>>>I wonder what Deputy Fanning's sentence will be in this case.
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>>Statistics prove that having a gun in your house makes you less safe, not more safe...however this information is ignored by many - like the NRA who seem to think that best way to beat the gun problem is to have more guns. When the U.N. voted on international gun control I noticed that those against it were: North Korea, Syria, and Iran. Oh and of course the NRA made a big deal about how they were against it too. Tells you something about the NRA doesn't it?
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>I just noticed this paragraph at the bottom of the CNN story:
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>"No charges have been filed, said the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, which looks into incidents involving law enforcement officers."
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>WTF?

No surprise there..and if he was charged with anything I'm sure his police union would defend him vigorously.
This is also equally disturbing: "...."He took all the precautions, he's a trained law enforcement officer, trains with weapons all the time."
Deputy Fanning also works as a school resource officer at Lebanon's Sam Houston Elementary....' - Needless to say I don't have to go into all the things I see wrong with THAT statement. Now if the people involved here would of been not been a cop, from a poor inner-city neighborhood and black, I'm sure the reaction would be a tad different - there would be charges filed and the statement would start out with "He did not take precautions...".