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this is cumberland county in south kentucky deep in the american countryside far from the sprawl of a 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 two charges. it is a pious closed community get weapons are part of everyday life here for protection and so hunting. exposed from childhood it is not unusual here to own your first gun in kinda got. how many people own guns in this village more probably to window. with these things

are you. saying that in that sound opinion of your own go not everybody in the county is quote the 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 and hans i want to fish is. so so 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 to children as . rifle. i'm. sure many

a cricket rifle i wish i had running the cricket is the perfect way to get young or 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 don't know whether she was too loaded he accidentally shot his sister in the chest. caroline sparks was rushed to hospital but tragically she died soon after. i could hardly understand my daughter because she was so exhausted and crying and hysterical and said that you know you know it's easier been shot and i just cannot my heart just set and then 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 just she was gone

that i didn't know what to do i remember i rolled the window down to try to breathe because i could hardly take a breath we went to the hospital and i just walked up to the nurses one day are 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 i went back there and you know she was already you know in a coma. from the help of the brain swelling on. them so she looked perfect i held her hand and. talked to her but couldn't hear me. this is the grandmother of another child zaria go back. both families live in the same area. as daria was shot in the forehead also by another child. what did the doctor tell you that moment that she was in critical condition that she would 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 to. louisville kentucky is the closest major city to cumberland county. this is where caroline spock's is ambulance was heading when she passed away. and. there's the emergency room and friends and then of course all the ambulances down this way and they will stop right at the door so close. 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 coming to us hospitals to children's 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 the adults in the united states with adults it's thirty two thousand people are killed with a gun every single year in the united states mazing the world's incredible an all preventable what kind of a shock once you get in this hospital because we are 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. balls within the hand area but 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 with this on the beach in place we work with 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 it's more than strange but when they market guns to children they make them in pastel blue and pretty barbie pink like to fly 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 would family for them shooting is an activity for the whole family including the younger children.

one of the six zero one hundred eighty so. i missed it here so. this isn't the first shot every shot with. 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 which is going to trust it well look at. this cable to go to. the free possession of bombs is in trying to in the u.s. constitution. and is inseparable from countryside lysine. looking for ways to share with davis. or would davis nice to meet you yes or can you say who's a 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 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 something 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 and 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 at to make it to doll it up like that and how much it's like

how much is a gun like that the dressed up like that one is i have a look at the price tag it is probably about fourteen hundred dollars with a scope there's another paint gun mess for the ladies but we carry a huge stock a hand guns everything you think got from target guns to a little bitty angle 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 oh nothing. show would davis has weapons of all shapes and sizes from 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

a korean of course pink for the young girl's camel for the future han or 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 already yeah i hope don't hunger good to see that. i do it don't do it yeah 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 but i see the. gun can these are my loaders and this one's a twenty two and two shot. here this shot.

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 no guns in your house those are the five you know peace 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 and 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 the gun cabinet this is if it is easy to do you know it's ok. to work you know gaining ground in this war just . after dinner the children go

outside to practice that favorite hobby in the backyard. maybe yours you don't know if you don't hurry chorused response to really. knows everyone in my life that i cared about their goal much and then. i came to skint well. i was national champion in track and field and also i was able to go and qualify for the olympic games. you know nine hundred eighty eight i started to experiment with other drugs i had lost all the financial means that i. was really on the street.

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that. thank you guys too young to own a gun. why not. i don't know we're not all prone to you know it's not right. i 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 thought they were now because you know only what is supposed to fight the pauses that 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 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 what we. just around the corner from my caroline sparks was shot dead is one of the largest shooting grounds in the united states. as eight thousand this shooting ground is larger than eleven thousand troops all peaches. 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 an ignoble owner of rock also shooting range just by

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 the cost of this to travel by car between the safety 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 on loaded 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 yes it is different but i can understand why children find a use who would give a thrill a bit of adrenaline yes i can 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 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 and 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 yeah i mean did you have to try. but i thought you know if she even led that she would be brain damaged and maybe skip even see kids you know 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 bad signal. 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 by by. the. well it's still in the head it's too difficult to remove it. but obviously not she leads the lives of any seven year old.

charlie charlie and. what are the chances that it will survive something like that well one of the million and the doctors say that the baby never seen nothing like this before saturday's caller the miracle baby. souls sat. down with a child a high school and writes and i doubt. any hit you. what it was if you hit you with a quote it's sad a serious. look at the right look. at what it got to say you were lucky a little bit. and learned that cost. is closer to 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 treatise. on. these look crazy its. own luck as a whole what. you believe his looks to. the shield up really nice you can't even hardly tell it was their looks just like a little scrape now. they're getting squire good sense for him every day to keep still oh that's fantastic they've taught you well 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 senior national. 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. mr hill it's a cruel ruin again 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 on successful 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

would regularly visit a gas station nearby which also serves as a convenience store in your absence has been blown out of power just about on average of almost lost weight you know ever since men like her mom said there's a bear second grandmother here with 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 a symbol for the gun debate throughout the united states president obama once tried to gun control but is met with the 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 on the project you say so so you say this gun for five six seven year olds is safe gun you even

know it supervision your own grandchildren you would give the great. many pictures with there 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 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 short films 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 never say. and because of that there's a family that's very sad always mr daughter and i'm very blessed that we have 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. if you look at this in front above this inference 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 . of children and see 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 is safer. played live played. live.

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