[CrackMonkey] [gkm@petting-zoo.net: Toddlers will be frisked at egg race]

[Nick Moffitt]

	Guns don't kill people; children kill people.

----- Forwarded message from glen mccready <gkm at petting-zoo.net> -----
Forwarded-by: William Knowles <wk at c4i.org>

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-114235,00.html

FROM LAURA PEEK IN WASHINGTON
FRIDAY APRIL 13 2001

CHILDREN attending the annual White House Easter Egg Roll a custom
that dates from the 1870s will be frisked for stun guns by the Secret
Service.

Children aged from three to six queue for hours to join the annual
Easter celebration, the highlight of which is rolling hundreds of
brightly painted hard-boiled eggs down the sloping White House lawn.
The Bush Administration has put a dampener on this years egg roll,
however, with a detailed security warning on the back of admission
tickets.

On the front, cartoon rabbits gambol across the White House lawn. But
on the back children are warned not to bring, among other things: guns
/ ammunition, knives with blades over 3in, mace or electric stun guns.

Even balloons are banned, presumably because a balloon popping could
be mistaken for gunfire.

The heightened security at Mondays event has been prompted by a spate
of school shootings, leading authorities to regard even the youngest
child as a potential threat.

More than 30,000 people die from firearms-related deaths each year in
America, and gun control advocates point out that the rate of gun
deaths among children aged 14 and younger is nearly 12 times more than
in 25 other industrialised countries combined.


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