"Machine Gun America," a theme park that caters to children as young as thirteen, opens in Orlando, Florida.

Courtesy of the Daily Mail: 

A new attraction where children as young as 13 fire military-grade weapons in zombie, gangster and cowboy-themed simulators has been slammed by gun control campaigners. 

Although management claim their Orlando, Florida, attraction provides a safe place for the use of firearms, critics claim it is unsuitable for an area known for its child-friendly attractions. 

The website for the business - named Machine Gun America - states it is Orlando's 'first automatic adrenaline attraction'. 

It explains: 'Whether you're looking to unleash your inner action star or become a zombie hunter, experience the exhilarating rush of shooting real machine guns and powerful firearms for a thrill like any other.' 

Live ammo? Thirteen year old kids? Should we start writing the headlines now?

You know the troubling thing is that if I were a thirteen year old and my choice was Epcot Center, Disney World, or this place I am afraid I would probably choose this place.

Part of that is due to the video games and action movies that romanticize gun violence, and part of that is because shooting real assault weapons would feed a teen's need for an adrenaline rush like almost nothing else.

However haven't we already seen the dangers of allowing youngsters access to military style weapons?

We need to start teaching our children that weapons have an important place in the military, law enforcement, and potentially home security, but they are NOT toys and accessing them should not be placed in the same category as the spinning teacups or Space Mountain.

3 year old shoots and kills man, because you know guns do that.

Courtesy of KXII: 

Family and friends are mourning the death of a former Stringtown and Murray State College basketball player. 

Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation spokespersons said the 23-year-old man was accidentally shot Friday by a 3-year-old. 

Family members were at a home on Wells Street in Stringtown, and were sighting-in a rifle, when one of the children reached over and pulled the trigger, shooting Brown in the neck.

Just a reminder that guns make perfectly harmless people incredibly dangerous.

And now this child has to live their entire live knowing that they killed a man even before they learned what death was.

Shooting ranges linked to lead poisoning. Well THIS explains a lot.

Courtesy of The Seattle Times:  

Thousands of people, including workers, shooters and their family members, have been contaminated at shooting ranges due to poor ventilation and contact with lead-coated surfaces, a Seattle Times investigation has found. 

Those most at risk are employees who work around firearms, unknowingly inhaling lead-tinged dust and fumes as they instruct customers and clean shooting ranges of spent ammunition. Lead exposure can cause an array of health problems — from nausea and fatigue to organ damage, mental impairment and even death. 

Even those who’ve never stepped inside a gun range have become sick. Employees have carried lead residue into their homes on their skin, clothes, shoes and work gear, inadvertently contaminating family members, including children, who are the most vulnerable to lead’s debilitating health effects. 

For the public, shooting firearms is the most common way of getting lead poisoning outside of work, according to national statistics.

"Nausea, fatigue, organ damage, mental impairment, death," damn that exercising of your 2nd Amendment rights can really take a toll on a fella.

Kind of makes you wonder if the lunacy of the pro-gun folks is due to their overwhelming fetish for guns, or simply the result of too much lead in their systems. Or maybe a combination of both.

Well I'll tell you one thing, it certainly puts some of these accidental shootings into perspective.

Kind of hard to control a weapon when you have lost the feeling in your arms and hands.