C'mon, JiK--you know there's a difference between beauty pageants and lethal weapons. Or by some chance can't you in fact tell the difference?

So maybe it wasn't a 5 year old killing a 2 year old.    There's at least one factual incident of a 10 year old killing his 7 year old brother.    That's so much better, right?


More to the point is the observation that handling rifles has been a rite of passage for US kids outside big cities for quite a while.    I would hope kids of the ages shown are still with toy guns, but outrage on this score will only help the NRA and its supporters--especially in "flyover territory" .   

There's no point to butting our heads against the wall of rifle tradition.   What we need to stop is the plague of automatic weapons, semis, and handguns.

Let's keep focused.