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Yesterday, a six-year-old in Indianapolis accidentally shot and killed his father when he was playing with a gun left on the table. A few weeks earlier, a three-year-old child in Alabama picked up his great-grandfather’s pistol and accidentally shot and killed his nine-year-old sister. A few days before that, a two-year-old shot himself in the leg with his father’s gun in Washington, D.C. There have been a heartbreaking 18 shootings by children under the age of ten so far this year; six of those shootings were fatal, while nine of the victims were other children and three of victims were the shooters themselves.
Which is why it is extremely disturbing to hear that Republicans in the Iowa statehousehave just passed a bill that would allow children under the age of fourteen to use firearms with “parental supervision,” with no age limit. It would allow a two-or-three year old to use firearms, prompting a frustrated Democrat to ask exactly what kind of gun fits in the hand of a two year old, arguing quite reasonably that “we do not need a militia of toddlers!”
“You’re missing the whole point of the bill. I think this is one of the best bills we’ve done for second amendment rights” replied Republican Jake Highfill.
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