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Tristan SnellIn America, a toddler has shot someone with a gun, every week, for 2 years straight.
Yes, you read that correctly.
June Blender@tristansnell Source, please?
Brent, in a jar@juneb
this only covers this year, and children is a larger set than toddlers, but there have been more than enough to be once a week...
https://everytownresearch.org/maps/notanaccident/
@tristansnell
this only covers this year, and children is a larger set than toddlers, but there have been more than enough to be once a week...
https://everytownresearch.org/maps/notanaccident/
@tristansnell
gren.elliot@tristansnell Why don't they take kis gun off him?
Crystal_Fish_Caves@tristansnell well people in a house that allow a toddler access to a firearm are spitting in Karma's face so....
Mark Steger 
@tristansnell, someone really ought to catch that toddler.
Mike Knell@tristansnell Someone needs to take the gun off that toddler.
Darwin Woodkawhat a vicious little thing
aethervision@tristansnell GOP: Damnit, we have to do something about restricting toddler ownership…
Lyndee
PeteEven rudimentary training could teach a toddler trigger finger discipline.
I blame the parents.
sOlOw-NHThe 2nd Amendment protects children's right to bear arms!
Ether Diver@tristansnell hell yeah, another No. 1 for the US of A
Bill Seitz@tristansnell That's a dangerous toddler.
Jim Hughes ☢️@billseitz @tristansnell I think if that kid is shooting someone every 2 weeks, that person must have really done something to piss off that toddler.
Also they're probably used to it by now
Also they're probably used to it by now
Fiona Kaenbyou@tristansnell I hope someone takes the gun from them soon
Haelwenn /элвэн/ 
@tristansnell *confused European sounds* wait… a toddler can shot someone with a gun?
Evelyn@lanodan @tristansnell Yes. As soon as their hand muscles are well developed enough to pull the trigger. More likely once they’re actually strong enough to lift the gun itself, but that’s not strictly necessary.
It happens all the f*cking time.
Some states & municipalities have laws about keeping guns safely stored; but in lots of places it’s perfectly legal to leave your loaded gun just sitting on out a coffee table or somewhere.
Sometimes I hate it here.
@gorfram @tristansnell I guess it's a bit like how toddlers can sometimes pull a cooking pot/pan and hurt themselves.
At least now easily removable handles are a thing.
At least now easily removable handles are a thing.
@lanodan @tristansnell The ability of toddlers to hurt themselves/wreak chaos/burn down the universe should not be underestimated.
*Especially, fergawdsakes, if you keep a gun in your house.
James Trickle uP@gorfram @lanodan @tristansnell You can just replace 'toddlers' with 'Americans' in your sentence and be pretty much accurate. American here complaining about how infantile adults act much of the time and US society seems to relish this childish behavior for some reason. You see it in our politics, you see it in pop culture. Adulthood is underrated.
🌈🍏🥧 π@lanodan
I still turn the handles to the back/side of the stove. I was taught this in school. My “baby” is almost 26 and I never have any small children around. Why are we more careful with knives and hot pans than we are with loaded firearms?
I still turn the handles to the back/side of the stove. I was taught this in school. My “baby” is almost 26 and I never have any small children around. Why are we more careful with knives and hot pans than we are with loaded firearms?
@CasualPiDay Can't answer this, I'm not american ^^
Darryl R Scott@tristansnell It's a massive and shameful societal failure.
Scott Ellis@tristansnell I guess it's about time we arrested her then.
geographile@tristansnell we need toddler control
goat@tristansnell Clearly, these toddlers are in dire need of more guns so they could fight of a tyrannical mom and dad when needed. Right to bear arms, starting at birth.
Tony SalernoThere was data published in 2017 confirming that fact. Do you have the current source for 2022/2023 (to prove it's not worse now)? Thanks
Megan Thomas@asalerno1964 @tristansnell Yes, can you please point us to where you got this statistic?
@asalerno1964
Not apples to apples, toddlers are a smaller set than children, but it sure seems worse this year...
https://everytownresearch.org/maps/notanaccident/
@tristansnell
Not apples to apples, toddlers are a smaller set than children, but it sure seems worse this year...
https://everytownresearch.org/maps/notanaccident/
@tristansnell
@asalerno1964
Ah, missed that that source has a year drop down. Looks like 2021 was slightly worse than 2022 for example.
@tristansnell
Ah, missed that that source has a year drop down. Looks like 2021 was slightly worse than 2022 for example.
@tristansnell
jasonrobot@tristansnell sarcastically: what we need more good toddlers with guns
Steven Sandoval@jasonrobot @tristansnell Where's Wyatt Burp?
Paul@tristansnell Related: All the people who think their holster is the only safety they need for their loaded and chambered pistols
DNAvinci@tristansnell
Double underscoring the absolutely insane gun culture here.
This is just an absolutely sick culture folks. There's definitely no reason to leave sharp things around a toddler, much less a loaded gun. You have to be 100% disrespecting a loaded gun to leave it where a toddler can get it.
This is like drunk driving in the 70s. People were just doing it because they wanted to be edgy and a fuckload of people died.
@fungible_thadius
Double underscoring the absolutely insane gun culture here.
This is just an absolutely sick culture folks. There's definitely no reason to leave sharp things around a toddler, much less a loaded gun. You have to be 100% disrespecting a loaded gun to leave it where a toddler can get it.
This is like drunk driving in the 70s. People were just doing it because they wanted to be edgy and a fuckload of people died.
@fungible_thadius
His Royal Chiggness@tristansnell oh my God, get that gun away from the kid already!
I AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑🔥@tristansnell someone needs to stop that toddler.
@tristansnell Our job is to find this toddler and stop him.
;-)
;-)
@tristansnell The only way to stop a bad toddler with a gun is a good toddler with a gun.
(I wish this were funny but it makes about as much sense as the good guy with a gun myth)
(I wish this were funny but it makes about as much sense as the good guy with a gun myth)
YurkshireLad@tristansnell by the NRA's logic, every household with a toddler should hire an armed guard. The number of deaths would truly plummet.
Joyographic@tristansnell Guns don't kill people. Toddlers kill people.
Futonji Records@tristansnell always the same toddler?
David Prothero@tristansnell Can you cite your source? (Not disputing, just curious.)
@dpro
I'd also like to see the source, just for that specific claim. I'd be surprised if that streak doesn't go back more than two years, honestly.
Anyhow, for this year and reporting on children, not toddlers...
https://everytownresearch.org/maps/notanaccident/
@tristansnell
I'd also like to see the source, just for that specific claim. I'd be surprised if that streak doesn't go back more than two years, honestly.
Anyhow, for this year and reporting on children, not toddlers...
https://everytownresearch.org/maps/notanaccident/
@tristansnell
UnRuly SweetPea@tristansnell & the Republicans still claiming to Protect the Children...
Jenny Fx@tristansnell let's ban toddlers.