World Examiner

Soros Funding Museum for Soviet Hero Pavlik Morozov (Kid Who Turned Family Into KGB)

When Cam (www.nranews.com) spoke tonight of pediatricians interrogating kids about guns in the home, I thought of this kid my wife told me about, a young Soviet "hero" who turned his parents into the KGB--on googling I found that George Soros reportedly funded restoration of a museum for the little monster!

Link: Soviet Hero Pavlik Morozov Still Mysterious - Pravda.Ru.

The twelve-year-old boy reported his father to KGB...American financier George Soros assigned $7,000 for the restoration of the demolished museum in honor of Soviet "pioneer-hero" Pavlik Morozov....he was showing police officers the places where his uncles were hiding crops and weapons.   

CA Pediatricians Opposed Gun Safety Education

The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, both of which profess an interest in presenting firearms related accidents involving children, have gone on record opposing legislation that would allow school teachers in grades 1-12 to teach children to stay away if they discover a firearm. (Old news, but posting because pediatricians appear to be stepping up anti-gun efforts again.)

Link: CRPA.

Hope: Stay in the Fight!

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Death by Doctor

Link: Cause of Death: Sloppy Doctors -- Monday, Jan. 15, 2007 -- Page 1 -- TIME. Excerpt:

Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually. It's a shocking statistic, and, according to a July 2006 report from the National Academies of Science's Institute of Medicine (IOM), preventable medication mistakes also injure more than 1.5 million Americans annually.

Farmington Daily Times - Police stress gun safety

Link: Farmington Daily Times - Police stress gun safety.

Excerpt - first paragraph:

No parent expects their gun to kill their child — but it happens too often, said Dan Patterson, an investigator with the La Plata County Sheriff's Office.

Excerpt - last paragraph:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 297 children between the ages of 5 and 14 were killed by accidental gunfire between 1999 and 2003. That amounts to less than 1 child in 100,000 being killed by accidental gunfire.

That's less than 100 per year in a nation of 300 million people.  Other risks posing a greater danger to kids (drowning in water buckets, crossing the street) are ignored by the press, which continues to sensationalize gun accidents.  Accidents have dropped even as gun ownership has rapidly expanded.  Accidents are highly preventable in this age group through gun education, yet groups with an anti-gun agenda (American Academy of Pediatrics, for example) have opposed gun education in schools, even if it is simply teaching kids to stay away from guns.