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Save Someone from Gun Violence this Holiday Season

Many of us are preparing to visit friends, relatives for upcoming holidays.  Whether you are hosting or heading to house parties, stays with relatives, whatever you’re going to do, please take a few extra precautions.  We are all expecting fun, good times, a chance to catch up.  The awful truth is that every year the lethal cocktail of unsecured weapons, alcohol, arguments, drugs will result in the shooting of people of all ages.

Let’s do all we can to prevent tragedy – a little prevention will save lives.

ACTION:

1 Please read these tips – and act on them:-

  • If gun owners are in your home, or homes/venues you will visit, ensure their guns will be locked up unloaded, away from children and adults alike.   Most police departments will give out free gun security advice and devices.
  • If you have any reservations at all about how a gun owner stores and handles their weapon:  consider not being around them.
  • If you find yourself in the company of gun owners who are beginning to behave erratically (whether because of alcohol, drugs, arguments – any reason), leave as soon as you can safely do so.  Go as soon as you feel concern.
  • Keep an eye on children where guns are present:  it only takes a moment to find a gun and pull a trigger.  Toy guns?  Say no to realistic-looking ones.
  • Do not be afraid to tell anyone not to bring a gun to your home.  Don’t be afraid to say no to visiting places where gun safety is not strictly observed.

2  Please share this message with your friends, family – it might well prevent a tragedy.

 

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Demand charges be dropped against 10 year old who found coach’s illegal gun

10 June, 2021 – Lancaster, S.C. The Associated Press reported a South Carolina youth basketball coach has been arrested after a 10-year-old player took a loaded gun from his car to his elementary school.

Isaac Lamon Adams, 36, was barred from legally owning a gun because of a previous criminal conviction, Lancaster County Sheriff Barry Faile said.  Exactly what ‘a person convicted of a crime of violence’ was doing around children while having the unsecured gun in his vehicle is a question those who hired him should be asked.

That Adams is to be charged is great news.  Now the extremely bad news:  the little ten-year-old boy is to be charged as a juvenile for having the gun!  This is wholly unacceptable.  Deputies say the child did not brandish the pistol or use or threaten to use it in any manner at the school.

The trauma to be visited on this child for the illegal actions of Adams by charging him must be averted.

ACTION:

Please contact the Lancaster South Carolina Sheriff’s Office through one of the channels below and give them the following message, personalized to your liking:

 

I am writing to demand that the charges you inexplicably want to lodge against a little ten-year-old boy who found a gun his coach illegally had are immediately dropped.  A child of ten who was sent to a vehicle with an illegal gun in it is far below the age of criminal responsibility. I am glad you are charging coach Adams, who was prohibited from having a gun.

Drop the charges on the boy (who any child psychologist will tell you cannot have understood the implications of what that gun could do) and add a charge of child endangerment to Adams’ charge sheet. You must surely know giving this boy a record serves no good at all and will do harm. 

I expect to see an announcement shortly that all charges against the child are dropped.  Why would you inflict such psychological damage on an innocent child?

Phone:  803-313-2121

Email:  sherifffaile@lacoso.net

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/LancasterCountySheriffSC

 

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Remind parents guns and children do not mix

1 February 2020 – there have been at least 4 children hurt or killed in gun accidents in their family homes in the last week.  All of these were wholly avoidable.

An Indiana father ‘play wrestled’ with his toddler while wearing a gun- that child is dead.

A nine-year-old in Brigham City, Utah was shot in the head after finding a grandparent’s weapon.  Police in this case have issued guidelines which we will share on social media and help raise awareness.

As any member of the gun-owning ‘well-regulated militia’ is supposed to know, to prevent these accidents all guns in a home should be unloaded, in a safe, and that guns and ammo must be stored separately.

Brigham City, Utah, police said:

“If you don’t have a safe then you can get what’s called a trigger lock that you put a lock on the trigger of the gun,” said Crapse. “You can buy those when you buy the gun, they are cheap. Or most police departments, you can go to the police department and get those trigger locks. We give them away for free.”

The ‘good guys with guns’ who think a lethal weapon will make them safer, despite all the evidence to the contrary, keep ignoring basic safety measures, and their children are paying for these unforgivable lapses with their lives.

Police would like gun owners to discuss how dangerous guns are with their children, and to tell children to tell an adult immediately if they find a gun.

ACTION:

This time, please just share the message below on your own social media or discuss with your friends  the following message, personalized to your liking – or just share this link for the message; it’s fast and easy:

https://www.onepulseforamerica.com/news/one-pulse-for-america-issues-reminder-children-and-guns-dont-mix/

 

American gun owners are still not getting the message that guns and children do not mix.  In the last week, at least four children were injured by finding loaded guns – guns which legally should never have been left lying around where children were able to get them.

Police in Utah where a 9 year-old was shot in the head reinforced that all guns in a home should be unloaded, in a safe, and be sure to store the guns and ammo separately.

They said “If you don’t have a safe then you can get what’s called a trigger lock that you put a lock on the trigger of the gun,” said Crapse. “You can buy those when you buy the gun, they are cheap. Or most police departments, you can go to the police department and get those trigger locks. We give them away for free.”

The words don’t seem to get through, so here is a picture of 4 year-old Tripp Shaw from Indiana and his parents. 

His dad was wrestling with Tripp when his gun went off, killing him.  You won’t ever be seeing a picture of Tripp at age 5. 

He’ll never grow up to be a doctor, a football hero, an artist. 

The parents will live with this the rest of their lives.  Please, if you must have a gun, get a lock for it, keep it unloaded, and keep it in a place children won’t be near it.  Discuss how dangerous guns are with children who live under a roof where guns are kept.  Better yet, just don’t have a lethal weapon in the same home as  children.  Don’t let your child, your friend’s child be the next Tripp Shaw.

Please share this post; it might well stop a tragedy.

 

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