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Gun News Daily A World Full of Guns By William Lolli GND Contributing Editor June 2, 1999 The May 21, 1999 broadcast of ABC's 20/20 featured a segment called "A World Full of Guns". The official summary to the program states: A 20/20 hidden camera experiment found most children knew exactly how to find and use guns even after being previously warned not to play with them. Let me first say that this wasn't journalism. This segment was the worst kind of Nazi exploitation of children I had ever seen. For you who did not see it, you were spared the visceral reaction I had when I saw the segment. It was repeated partially on ABC's Weekly show with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts. It is beyond my comprehension how the ABC news people, a Day Care Center's administration, and the supposed parents of the children featured in the segment all conspired to create the ultimate propaganda anti-gun film, using the very lives of their own children as puppets. Please forgive my rage. I digress. The segment attempts to show what happens when children, actually toddlers, are asked not to play with guns; then set loose in a Day Care Center play room when actual, real-live firearms are placed in the TOY BOX. Yes, the TOY BOX! Additionally, ammunition --- supposedly REAL, LIVE ammunition --- is left on the teacher's desk; so as to test the ingenuity of the children and their ability to load the firearms. A hidden camera captures it all. We are supposed to believe that at no time, were the children in any danger. This is a promise made by people who deliberately place firearms in the hands of toddlers and place ammunition within proximity to those same toddlers-- all to advance their shameless agenda. Well, I have HAD ENOUGH. I demand to know who orchestrated this segment. I demand to know where it was filmed and if there are any local, state, or federal laws for child endangerment with a firearm on the books where this event occurred. I demand that law enforcement prosecute to the fullest extent of the law ALL OF THE PARTICIPANTS of this exploitation, including the parents, the Day Care officials, and ABC News. These people belong in jail. Please contact ABC News at: http://www.go.com/Help?pg=ContactGO.html and let them know how you feel, and that you demand accountability for their reckless acts. |