this is cumberland county in south kentucky deep in the american countryside far from the sprawl of life. a place where alcohol is neither sold not consumed in the bible reign supreme. in a village of eight hundred people there are forty churches. it is a pious closed community get weapons are a part of every day life here for protection and so hunting. exposed from childhood it is not unusual here to own your first gun in kindergarten. how many people own guns in this village more probably do than don't. work with

these things that are. actually not in the absence of the been here all go and not everybody is like i am and it's quite a way of life here where everybody wants around here and they much else to do it one hundred feet i would say you know a very hard majority of country people own guns my grandson started her when he was probably three or four years out so it just and i got one at hans he wanted fishies . so so when you go to kindergarten you get your first gun. yes that's what they want the family of a southern kentucky two year old girl shot and killed in her home says it was all an accident he received the rifle specially made for children as a gift last year. cumberland county hit the front pages of news world wide in may and five year old christina shot his two year old sister dead with a gun he received as a gift for his fifth birthday a real gun with real bullets the manufacturer has openly advertised for children as

my first rifle. i'm. sure many a cricket rifle i wish i had won the cricket is the perfect way to get beyond a small framed shooters started right with the safety promoting design it saw few affordable and accurate. while the mother was in the kitchen christian picked up his gun and unaware that it was still loaded he accidentally shot his sister in the chest. caroline spock's was rushed to hospital but tragically she died soon after. i could hardly understand my daughter because she was so excited and crying and hysterical and said that you know you know it's easier been shot and i just and i my heart just sank and as soon as i got in the car got in the back seat and i couldn't breathe i just i guess it was anxiety and i was so so scared that you know she thought she was gone that i didn't know what to die

a member i rolled the window down to try to breathe but i could hardly take a breath. we went to the hospital and i just walked up to the nurses one doe and i said i was their grandmother can i please go back and see her and i don't usually they don't let you do things like that but they let me and asked so i went back there and you know she was already you know in a coma. for the help of the brain swelling on. them so she looked she looked perfect i held her hand and. talked to her but of course she couldn't hear me. this is the grandmother of another child zaria go by. both families live in the same area. as daria was shot in the forehead also by another child. and what do the doctors tell you that moment that she was in critical condition that she may not make it that you know the bullet was lodged and they had shared

a lot of brain swelling and that you know they didn't know most likely it would not be good. to compare myself and. louisville kentucky is the closest major city to cumberland county. this is where caroline's boxes ambulance was headed when she passed away. there's the emergency room and trevor and then of course all the added. down this way and they will stop right at the door so close our tolerance to resell as is a board member of the co's at children's hospital in louisville every day the hospital is confronted with the downside of mask on possession in the state of kentucky. how many children a year are coming to us hospitals that show up every single year in the united

states fifteen thousand children come into hospital with the young daughters. fifteen thousand children and if you build in the united states with adults it's thirty two thousand people are killed by gun everything believe in the united states mazing or miles incredible and all preventable what kind of shot once you get in this hospital because we are a level one trauma center we get the most critical gunshot wounds of all gunshot wounds that happen in the state of kentucky and when we talk about this picture of a child's picture was shot in the middle of the area all the tendons are a balls to within the hand area of the self so it's away from the bone so order to reattach to this and make the wound clean again this child would have to be pinned with metal pins if the child could even be saved at that point in time work would be to base we work with us on a daily basis on

a daily basis in this hospital to reason her colleagues witness the dark side to the massive possession of weapons in their state. to reason six tree me critical of the ease with which weapons are dealt with here she's angry that manufacturers use children as a target audience. they're still learning how to tell time they're still learning how to cut with scissors that's more than strains but when they market guns to children they make them in pastel blue and pretty barbie pink like to think barbie dolls they make them with the world and then they call them cute little names like cricket fan chipmunks just as though if you owned a gun you would belong to a disney club. this is the wood family for them shooting is an activity for the whole family including the younger children.

one of six. ok so. i'm just here so. it's a very very shallow. you know this in holland would be like very illegal ok. well in kentucky in the united states it's just part of the way we operate and this is the local shooting range. place your trust me with this guy trusted ok. let's give it a go to. the free possession of is in trying to in the us constitution and his inseparable from countryside life here. looking for ways to share with davis for whatever life to meet you yes are going to go to from the netherlands from work the netherlands the netherlands yes. we have

lots of guns we do have lots of guns how many do you have typically in stock we've got some more going fifteen hundred two thousand one hundred goes up and down but fifteen hundred a small number for us and how many do you tell us oh gosh i'd have to look at the number but you're probably looking at seven thousand. to like that one right there that's definitely pointed towards a lady a lady would buy that farm and that would be her a ar fifteen were husband might own that one right there or something think what i would care less because like a really old most definitely yes or no but it looks like a slogan you know when they're in the plastic it's a little bit well that is just the furniture meaning those are just excess arrays if you put on a plain black gun like it to make it to doll it up like that and how much it's like

how much developed that. dressed up like that one is i have a look at the price tag it's probably about four hundred dollars with a scope there's another paint gun this for the ladies but we carry a huge stock a handgun every thank you thank you from target guns to little bitty ankle gun self-defense guns target guns you know we don't have that in the netherlands it's like we don't have weapons store so for i think it's not really yes. what we all do to protect ourselves nothing. show would davis has weapons of all shapes and sizes from hang guns to semiautomatic and of cool guns made especially for children. with the. sometimes they'll have a shorter stock to make it easier for their length of pocas their arms are shorter most of the time they'll be lighter because they can't hold up as much here's a very good example i want to even have them in colors like

a korean of course pink for the young girl's camel for of a future honner this children's gun is marketed as my first rifle it is the same gun that killed caroline spock's yet the state of kentucky support the sale of it. i could lay this gun right here loaded and i could come back in ten years and i'll guarantee you if nobody picks up that gun it will have not hurt anybody. so you know the gun is simply a tool or a coal oil so you say guns don't kill people guns do not kill people people kill people with five year olds also don't kill people but they get killed look skateboards are you going to outlaw skateboards are you going to confiscate pogo sticks everything require supervision.

so jamie you can begin to grow any yeah i hope you don't hunger to see that. i do it don't do it now our boys are you know what. the goods are a typical kentucky family father jamie's a farmer he has eight hundred dairy cows there's a mill to twenty four hours a day the woods are hard work and they love good food especially meat. and there's something else they love too i doing you know you get i hear you sitting goats. we also keep the governor house yes going to see the. guy who came in these are a little over here and this one's a twenty. and two shot. here this is.

what he did you have a nation also here. and it's like turkey ok you know. we have good looks better because i'm too afraid you know i got to see your house but the five year now of peace in my face looks like yeah which is a safe why is that what we're. going here to. do you trust your children with those weapons you know i mean it's not you know here's a gun go out and it's a tom over time you know when they have to earn my trust to do those things like you the key that they they know words that today you know when i were small or know that key was put up that keys where they didn't know where it was it was either on my key chain and you know they couldn't get in a gun cabinet this is if it is easy to know it's ok. to work leukemia ground relist squash. after

dinner the children go outside to practice that savors held me in the back yard. please. please. over. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been a hydrogen lying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once told us i'm tom hartman and on this show

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a. pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i roll research and. you're. right you guys to young to own a gun. why not because. we're not all prone to you know it's not right. i'm not afraid of something happens with

a gun accident or something. well they miss you have it's not right i think you honestly do need the positive side ever now because you know only what is supposed to fight the pauses that is a large you know i mean this teaches them i'm not saying that they're going to be better than anybody else's children when they grow up but i mean you teaches them a lot of response ability. you know what the gun rights advocates will say you're using this threat of death of caroline sparks to get your own message across i hope they do say that because it is my methods but it is also the message of the american academy of pediatrics the american academy of pediatricians in the united states in two thousand and twelve that a policy statement stating that the only safe home in the united states is a home without a gun and i stand behind that belief. just

around the corner from my caroline sparks who shot dead is one of the largest shooting grounds in the united states. as eight thousand this shooting ground was larger than eleven thousand football pitches. so this is what we call the point of give us some perspective the most of our property is all north of us and west this is nick noble owner of rock also shooting range just by the tragic incidents in the neighborhood he still see shooting is an innocent fun. i call golf with a shotgun so you're going from from whole the whole station to station and then scoring and going to the end of the day out there today out. in the shooting club equipped with a restaurant and hotel is a family destination because of the vast size of the cost of visitors travel by car

between the fifty shooting stations this particular station is a recreation of a convoy village. so this is where the action happens this is it this is one of our many ranges but to be a good place for us to come down and maybe test out a few different types of. nick noble wants to prove that shooting doesn't have to be dangerous. first of all we always keep guns pointed in a safe direction even when it's unloaded we assume that every firearm is a loaded until we can prove otherwise when you're handling a firearm you never have that finger on it so it's if you're even taking a picture english are always well yeah parallel with that and then and then the only time i ever put a finger on the triggers and we're actually engaged in the target and ready to shoot and then i'll actually put my finger on the trigger but any time i pick this up fingers off which are. yet to hit anybody yet it is because i can understand why children find these who

would give a thrill a bit of adrenaline yes i can understand that yeah is it the wife's to learn the kid how to shoot when such a tragic accident happens around the corner here there's between two and three hundred million guns the united states so you can act like they're not here and keep kids away from them and i think that's when i when i believe that it's my personal opinion that when kids become curious about what they don't know is when the accidents happen is so different than putting a child a sixteen year old child in a vehicle with no training on an interstate this is how you feel about guns yeah i mean did you have to train. of thought you know if she even led she would be brain damaged and maybe even see can see now that your eye is right there and i just feel so worried that she would

never be normal again or in a coma forever are bats the ball. for azhar his grandmother children and weapons should never be combined. granddaughter was in the coma for two weeks with a bullet lodged in her brain. it's a new it is obviously. the by. well it's still in the head it's too difficult to remove it. but other than that she leads the normal life of any seven year old. surely surely one what are the chances that it will survive something like that well one of the million and the narrow doctors say that the baby never seen nothing like this before it's a color the miracle baby. cools sat. down with fall asleep child rules and rights aroused.

and he hit you. what it was he hit you with a good it's all bad i swear. a little got the right look. i wouldn't duck to say you were lucky a little bit. and learned the cops. told you to wear go girl. because of the accident bizzare as parents lost their rights to parental care. her grandmother now has full custody. together they visit the hospital where as our it was treated. crazy. oh my god yes oh. i can't believe his looks. i filled up really nice you can't even hardly tell it was there looks just like

a little scrape now. there it looks like a good sense for a gatekeeper in the sky oh that's fantastic they've taught you well you can't even tell. i've done this for thirty years and they're a children that you always remember they just stick in your head and i have my special words and she's one of the special ones you remember and see her now she's fabulous absolutely fabulous and this is the recovery that you always hope for a small miracle a small miracle definitely something that you're doing so good. it makes me know that what i'm here for is worthwhile. makes me know that what i do with. the figures are truly shocking more than fifteen thousand children each year abroad hospitals across america with gunshot wounds and eight children die every day

because of the consequences. in the gun from that's public television i left a couple of better do something six or seven attempts to speak with someone from the gun lobby unsuccessful and the secretary admits that due to the death of caroline sparks this is not a popular topic of conversation for the arms manufacturers. caroline sparks is buried here on the outskirts of cumberland county. her brother and mother regularly visit the gas station nearby which also serves as a convenience store. and you know he's been on. our just on average of almost lost weight you know ever since. her mom said there's a bear second grandmother there with a second grandmother so you must be heard when you heard the news yes. about that.

and so this movie is now a symbol for the gun debate throughout the united states president obama once stricter gun control but is met with a resistance from the countryside even in the village of caroline sparks board taken the right so i don't buy if you're there we're doing. so even after the tragedy when i or the directly about you still believe it or you know that you have the children yeah yeah meets number protect you say so so you say this gun for five six seven year olds is safe gun you even though it supervision your own grandchildren you would give a great. many pictures with their with me one day i hope that to look back at these pictures of robert ray i'm very good. with alex and t.j. owning and shooting guns from the young ages of twelve and seven the woods will continue to consider shooting

a family activity. rather than spending saturdays playing football they go to the shooting range. why do you like shooting so much. shooting helps the roof stress you know. and i'm sure afraid something happens a children every day and us die because of the ones aren't you afraid it happens to you why not because what it would be made to shoot so. and someone else who is trying to or. when you think it's innocent when you with kids involved you think there's not a bullet in there you think it's just like you think everything is safe but it's not guns are never say. and because of that there's

a family that's very sad and always mr daughter and i'm very blessed that we have you with us. after some kids were never taught the difference between i am in a real gun i think that's where some of the accidents come into play i mean you were talking about the incident in cumberland county how do you know that child wasn't thinking that that gun was just a ploy again. if you look at this and friend above this in france right here is a gunshot wound close to the head in the temple area unfortunately this is one of the children but did not make it we were unable to revive this child this is the gun debate through the eyes of children who simply come to pay through the eyes of children this is the through the eyes of karen sparks if we can't do it for our children for our future what is the country the same for.

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i know c.n.n. the m s n b c news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the truth and might think. it's because one call attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on here. and our teenagers we have a different brain. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not how.

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