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law for switzerland limiting executive pay to being twelve times higher than that of the lowest paid employee although this point isn't making headlines it seems like a much better idea because it doesn't to motivate people to be productive and yet it would create almost utopia like levels of wealthy quality also if the bosses salary is tied to the employees that a lot of people be getting raises very soon this one to twelve p. ratio is much better than the free swiss francs and it gets my seal of approval but that's just my opinion. i mean if we're looking at the situation right now where we have a crackdown almost on a daily basis where we have people getting arbitrarily arrested from their homes during war we have children being picked off the streets where we have people attacked with tear gas inside their homes where torture is rampant is that not in itself as a form of anarchy. this
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is cumberland county in south kentucky deep in the american countryside far from the sprawl of the line. 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 than though. with these things are you. saying that in the absence of opinion of your own go not everybody
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in the county is quote a way of life here yeah everybody wants around here and they much else to do fish i would say you know a very hard majority of the country people own guns my grandson started her when he was probably three or four years out so he just and i got one of hunting one of fishies. so when you go to kindergarten you get your first gun cock 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 . rifle. i'm. sure many a cricket rifle i wish i had during the cricket is the perfect way to get beyond
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a small framed shooters started right with the safety promoting design it's soft shooting 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 cannot 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 this she was gone that i didn't know what to do i remember i rolled the window down to try to breathe
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because i could hardly take a breath. we went to the hospital and i just walked up to the nurses one day that 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 so i went back there and you know she was already you know in a coma. for the help of the brain swelling and. she looked she looked perfect i held her hand and. talked to her but couldn't hear me. the grandmother of another child zaria go back. live in the same area. as daria was shot in the forehead by another child. and what do the doctors tell you. that she was incredible condition that she may not make it that you know the bullet was lodged and they had shed a lot of brain swelling and that you know they didn't know most likely it would not
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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 there and trap and then of course all the adult. i'm down this way and they will stop right at the door so close are tolerant 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 the year coming to us hospitals that show up every single year in the united states fifteen thousand children come into hospital with the young daughters let's start with fifteen thousand children and if you build in
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the united states with adults it's thirty two thousand people are killed with a gun every single week in the united states mazing of miles incredible and all preventable what kind of a 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 of balls within the hand area the itself sits 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 this on a daily basis on a daily basis in this hospital to reason her colleagues witness the dark side to
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the massive possession of weapons in their state. two 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 a pink like to find barbie dolls they make them with swirls and then they call them cute little names like crickets and 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. when i was six i went home to the yanks so i shot but i missed it here so.
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this isn't the first shot every shot with ok. you know does it hold would be like very illegal. well in kentucky in the united states it's just part of the way we operate and this is the local shooting range. they should trust me with this guy trusted well. let's give it a go at it. the free possession of the is enshrined in the us constitution and is inseparable from countryside life here. looking for ways to share with davis money i'm sure would davis nice to meet you yes or no needs to go to from the netherlands from where the netherlands the netherlands yes i have lots of guns we do have lots of things how many do you
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typically in stock we've got some more point fifteen hundred two thousand one hundred goes up and down but fifteen hundred a small number for us and how many do you sell here oh gosh i'd have to look at the numbers but you're probably looking at seven date that house and. the like that one right there that's definitely pointed towards a lady a lady would buy that farm and that would be her a r fifteen we're husband might on that one right there or something one of their plastic is like a real good old most definitely yes i know it looks like a toy gun you know it's there in the glass like this imelda well that is just the furniture meaning those are just the excess arrays that you put on a plain black gun like it to make it to doll it up like that and how much like how much is a gun like that the dressed up like that one is i have
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a look at the price tag it is probably about four hundred dollars with a scope there is another paint gun mess for the ladies but we carry a huge stock a hand guns every thank you thank god from target guns to little bitty ankle gun self-defense guns target guns you know we don't have this and then once it's like we don't have weapons store so for us 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 kools 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 i'm being korean of course pink for the young girls camel for the future honner this children's gun is
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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 light a 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 heard anybody. say you know they're gonna 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 already yeah yeah i hope don't hunger good to see
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that. i do it don't do it yeah. 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 the hard work it's enough good food especially meat. and there's something else they love to i doing you know you get i hear you sitting goats. we also keep the gun in the house yes going to see the. gun can these or muzzle loaders and this was a twenty two and two shot. they said oh yeah this shot. what he did you have a nation also here well let's go now and it's like turkey ok. we
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have to do. better because i'm too afraid no i've got to see your house does the five year now he's in my face looks like yeah which is a safe why is that what we're. going here. do you trust your children with those weapons you know i mean it's not you know here's a gun go out no it's a tom over time you know they 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 you know it's ok. to work you know gaining ground relist squash. after dinner the children go outside to practice that favorite hobby in their backyard.
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because at one time i saved money to hire a hitman to shoot me dead from the next building or through the open window. i searched through the internet typing things like i'm looking for you i'm waiting for you before i wrote i'm waiting for you i'm looking for you i didn't care at all what this man would feel like deprived disable it will be with you know you want. the battery is right. i love everything about him i have control of every hair everyone interesting gets him actually be healthy years and other guys
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drink beer in a bench i've always promised that if she ever realizes it's too much for her and she decides to leave me i will accept her decision without criticism because it's her choice.
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i. that. your. right you guys to young to own a gun now. why not. i don't know we're not all prone to you know it's often they'll take care of an eye not afraid
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of something happens with a gun the excellence of 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 process out is they 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 me teaches them a lot of responsibility. 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 bully. just
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around the corner from my caroline sparks was shot dead is one of the largest shooting grounds in the united states. as eight thousand the shooting ground is 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 despite the tragic incidents in the neighborhood he still see shooting as 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 yeah today out. in the shooting club equipped with a restaurant and hotel is a family destination because of the vast size of visitors travel by car between the
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fifty shooting stations this particular station is a recreation of a cowboy 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 and there's an old 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. ok to hit anything that it did for time i can understand why children find these
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who would give a thrill a bit of adrenaline yes i said understand that yeah is it wise to learn a 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 take 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 with guns that it you have to train. for thought you know if she even lead 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
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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 serious about. the. well it's still in the head it's too difficult to remove it. but other than that she leads the life of any seven year old. charlie chilling out. what are the chances that it will survive something like that well one of the million and the doctors say that the baby never saw nothing like this before saturday's color the miracle baby. schools sat. down with a child a high school and writes. and they hit you.
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what it was if you hit you with a cold it's sad seeing a little bit of your head yes. i would have got to say you were lucky a little bit. and on the coffee. culture where i go girl. because of the accident bizzare as parents lost their rights to parental care. how grandmother now has full custody. together they visit the hospital where as our it was treated. these look crazy its. own luck as a whole why. do you believe his looks to. my shield up really nice you can't even hardly tell that was their looks just like a little scrape now. they're getting squire good sense for him every day to keep
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the sky oh that's fantastic they've taught you well all you can't even tell. i've done this for thirty years and there are 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 seeing are not all she's fabulous. absolutely fabulous and this is the recovery that you always hope for a small nergal a small miracle definitely something that you're doing so good. makes me know that what i'm here for is worthwhile. makes me know what i'd do if. 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.
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in the gun from that's public television i left a couple of messages i think six or seven attempts to speak with someone from the gun lobby and successful the secretary admits that due to the death of caroline spokes this is not a popular topic of conversation for the arms manufacturers. caroline sparks is buried here on the outskirts of cumberland county. brother and mother regularly visit a gas station nearby which also serves as a convenience store in your absence you know if you've been on alcohol or just on the average of a wash lost weight you know ever since. her mom said there's a bear her second grandmother who had a second grandmother so you must be heard when you heard the news yes really heard about it that i heard about it. and so this small village is now
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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 it here they were doing. so even after the tragedy even after the directly about you still believe it or your guns that you have the children yeah yeah meets on the project 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 the great irony that many pictures with their with maybe one day i hope to fill 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 oh rather than spending saturday's playing football they go to
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the shooting range. why do you like shooting so much. stress. shooting helps the roof stress you know. and i'm sure afraid something happens a children every day and us die because of shotguns 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's 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
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you with us. after some kids were there 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 thank you back again was just a ploy again. if you look at this in front 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 did make it we were unable to revive this child this is the gun debate through the eyes of children since the gun debate through the eyes of children this is the gun debate through eyes of carolyn sparks if we can't do it for our children for our future what can we do as the country to save or.
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