with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. 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 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 than go. with these things

are you. saying that in that santa bring him here all go and not everybody in the county is called the way of life here yeah everybody wants around here and they much else to do with fish i would say you know a very hard majority of the country people own guns and my grandson started her when he was probably three or four years out so he just and i got one and hans he wanted fishies. 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 when 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 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 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 because i could hardly take a breath. we went to the hospital and i just walked up to the nurses one 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. for that to help with the brain swelling and. she looked 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 by. both families 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 in critical 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 be good. to compare myself and. louisville kentucky is the closest major city to cumberland county. this is where caroline's boxes ambulance was heading when she passed away. there's the emergency room and track and of course all the added. down this way and they will stop right at the door so close are tolerant. as is a board member of the cozy children's hospital in louisville every day the hospital is confronted with the downside of mask and possession in the state of kentucky. how many children a year are coming to us hospitals that shelters 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 the united states with adults it's thirty two thousand people are killed with a gun every single year in the united states mazing a mild 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 self 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 the massive possession of weapons in their state to reason six three 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 a pink light to fly barbie dolls they make them with swirls and then they call them . cute little names like cricket from 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 young the children.

well six i went hunting with the yanks so. i missed it here so. this isn't a very very shallow there. you know just in holland 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 sure trust me which is going to trust it ok. let's give it a go to. the free possession of the isn't trying to in the us constitution and is inseparable from countryside life here. looking for ways to share with davis. or would davis nice to meet you yes or 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 amenities. 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 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'll it looks like a slogan you know it's there in the glass like it's a really 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 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's probably about fourteen hundred dollars with a scope there's another paint gun mess for the ladies but we carry a huge stock a handgun everything 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 nothing. show would davis has weapons of all shapes and sizes from hang guns to semiautomatic and of kools guns made especially to children. with the. sometimes they'll have a shorter stock to make it easier for their length of pull because 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 han are. 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 or so you say guns don't kill people guns do not kill people people kill people with five also don't kill people but they get killed book 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 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 gets. we also keep the gun in the house yes but i see the. gun these are all over here and this one's a twenty. two shot. here this shot.

what do you give a nation also here well there's no no there that's like thirty ok sure. well that didn't work so it was better because i do a phrase you know i've got to say your house was a five year now he's in my place of sight yeah which is a safe why that was buried here. 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 when 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 smaller know that t. 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 squats. after

dinner the children go outside to practice that savors hubby in the backyard. i suspect. we're going to go did you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution and the concept that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy shred albus. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been hijacked lying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once told us my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem trucks rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america have october ready to join the

movement then walk a little bit of. patience are forcing that. six nations under the finish line out of merit on. going to see. what has happened here in the morning paula.

you're. right you guys to young to own a gun. why not. i don't know we're not all pro do 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 side ever now because you know me what is supposed to fight the process out 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 how do you 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 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 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 isn't 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 this it is travel by car between the safety 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 loaded until we can prove otherwise when you're handling a firearm you never have that finger on it so it's even taken a picture 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 yet it is different but i can understand why children find a use 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

keep kids away from them and i think that's when i move when i believe it is 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 says this is how you feel with guns yeah i mean did you have to try. but i thought you know if she even lead she would be brain damaged and maybe skip 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 our bets 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 obviously not she leads the lives of any seven year old. charlie chilling out. what are the chances that a deal survives something like that well one of the million and doctors say that the baby never saw nothing like this before so they called the miracle baby. souls sat. down with a child a high school and writes and i realized. i mean it you. know what it was if you hit you with a good it's bad a smear. a little bit to your head yes. i would have got to say you were lucky a little bit. and the cost. goes you know where i go girl.

it's. because of the accident bizarre his parents lost their rights to parental. grandmother now has full custody. together they visit the hospital where as arya was treated. on. these look crazy it's. own luck as a whole while i. can't believe his looks to get. that healed up really nice you can't even hardly tell it was their looks just like a little scrape now. they're getting schooled your good sense for every day to keep the sky 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 see her now fabulous. absolutely fabulous and this is the recovery that you always hope for a small nergal a small miracle definitely something that you're given 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. 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 and 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. 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 an average of a wash lost weight you know ever since then like her mom there's a bear her second grandmother who was a second grandmother so you must be heard when you heard the news. about that when 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 resistance from the countryside even in the village of caroline sparks. take in the right so i don't but if you're there we're doing.

so even after this race he would have to that directly about you still believe it or you know that you have the children yeah yeah leads on the project you say so so you say this gun for five six seven year olds is safe gun you would even go if supervision your own grandchildren you would give the great irony that many pictures with their with me one day i hope to feel 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 chatrooms 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 just. 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 always mr daughter and i'm very blessed that we have you see with us. after some kids were never taught the difference between i play again and 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 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 to make we were unable to revive this child this is the gun debate. of children and simply through the eyes of children this is the gun through the eyes of parents parks if we can do it for our children for our future what is the country to save her thing. wealthy british style. time.

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