The NRA is having another convention and crazy crazy people will show up and give grand speeches about liberty and the Constitution and the commie liberals.

Mediamatters does a splendid job demonstrating how the voices of the right including Hannity and Nugent and beckerhead and so many other nutjobs have been calling for out-right revolution over the last few years.

Talk about yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater?

Basically there is a call for the hunting down and murder of the liberal commies.

This development is just amazing to me.

The way I interpret some of their rantings, these people are calling for the violent overthrow of the United States Government. At the least they are calling for murder and mayhem.

And of course seriously mentally ill people are listening to this crap and grabbing fire arms and going out and killing people they consider to be commies; hell they even end up killing cops.

Sirota at Salon demonstrates that this ultra violent right wing media is having an affect on our citizenry:

Take a look at the cross-tabs on page 3 of the national survey. That’s right, you are reading it correctly: Almost half (44 percent) of all self-described Republican voters say they believe “an armed revolution might be necessary to protect our liberties.” Just as bad, more Republicans believe an armed revolution might be necessary than believe one isn’t necessary.

HOW BEST TO PREPARE OUR CHILDREN FOR THIS BRAVE NEW WORLD?

Just take a look at what killing machines are being made available to our tots:

http://www.ocshooters.com/Gen/kidshooting/youth-firearms.htm

The issues surrounding the arming of our children have been around forever.

I mean Davy Crockett was killing barrs when he was only three for chrissakes.

Though rather tame by modern standards, Dragnet—especially on the radio—handled controversial subjects such as sex crimes and drug addiction with unprecedented and even startling realism. In one such example, Dragnet broke one of the unspoken (and still rarely broached) taboos of popular entertainment in the episode ".22 Rifle for Christmas" which aired December 22, 1949 and was repeated at Christmastime for the next three years. The episode followed the search for two young boys, Stanley Johnstone and Stevie Morheim, only to discover Stevie had been accidentally killed while playing with a rifle that belonged to Stanley—who'd be receiving it as a Christmas present but opened the box early; Stanley finally told Friday that Stevie was running while holding the rifle when he tripped and fell, causing the gun to discharge, fatally wounding Morheim. NBC received thousands of complaint letters, including a formal protest by the National Rifle Association. Webb forwarded many of the letters to police chief Parker who promised "ten more shows illustrating the folly of giving rifles to children".

The shooting of the two year-old by the five year old is discussed in our Dagblog news section.

In this case, the rifle was made by a company that sells guns specifically for children – "My first rifle" is the slogan – in colors ranging from plain brown to hot pink to orange to royal blue to multi-color swirls.

"It's a normal way of life, and it's not just rural Kentucky, it's rural America – hunting and shooting and sport fishing. It starts at an early age," said Cumberland County Judge Executive John Phelps. "There's probably not a household in this county that doesn't have a gun."...

"It's a little rifle for a kid. ... The little boy's used to shooting the little gun," White said....

"It's like, oh, my God," she said, "we're having a big national debate whether we want to check somebody's background, but we're going to offer a 4-year-old a gun and expect something good from that?"

take a look at thinkprogress for more on this.

And if you are going to arm your children you might as well provide them with some added protection.

The Denver company that supplied Jaliyah’s rucksack, Elite Sterling Security, has sold over 300 in the last two months and received inquiries from some 2,000 families across the US. It is also in discussion with more than a dozen schools in Colorado about equipping them with ballistic safety vests, a scaled-down version of military uniforms designed to hang in classroom cupboards for children to wear in an emergency.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/04/28/1931851/schools-bulletproof-vests/

Tomasky at Salon thinks there is Hope.

But we seem to have a history going back 400 years; gun 'mishaps' are nothing new to this country.

I don't know!

It is too easy to make guns, it is far too easy to sell guns, it is far far too easy to make a profit on guns!

Lawrence did a great job on this story last night on MSNBC as did Hayes.

http://tv.msnbc.com/shows/the-last-word/

“Because we think fastball pitching is too dangerous for five-year-olds,” he said. “If you are concerned with child safety, you don’t give children guns, you don’t give five-year-olds the keys to the car.”

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/05/02/rifles-for-kids-a-5-year-old-boy-accidentally-shot-his-2-year-old-sister/

Now we all know that if you purchase a BB Gun, you will shoot your eye out!

More dangerous weapons might cause much worse tragedies.

I just had no idea they were advertising pink rifles for little girls!

Now I hate the NRA even more than I did before.

Wiki notes that there are a series of laws on the books in several states labeled as CAP. This stands for Child Access Prevention.

You can review a discussion of these statutes here with links.

http://publichealthlawresearch.org/public-health-topics/injury-prevention/gun-safety/evidence-brief/child-access-prevention-cap-laws-gu

Perhaps instituting some aspects of CAP in our Federal Statutes (leaving enforcement to the states except in exceedingly repugnant circumstances) would be fruitful.

But this NRA convention bothers me most.

So many speaking to this convention are calling for murder, mayhem and open rebellion AND EVERYBODY THERE HAVE GUNS AND MORE GUNS AND MORE GUNS!

And they are arming our children.

And they are proud of this fact.