Ban Assault Golf Clubs
October 31st, 2008 by Syd
There is nothing funny about this, but it illustrates something important:
Girl, 7, Dies From Golf-Ball Injury
Friday, October 31, 2008
THIBODAUX, La. — A Thibodaux girl has died two weeks after being hit in the head by a golf ball while playing outside her home.
Claire Gauthreaux says her granddaughter, 7-year-old Casey Gauthreaux, was in the yard at the family’s home in Thibodaux when the accident occurred.
The ball was hit by Casey’s older brother, 14-year-old Andrew, an avid golfer.
The Oct. 12 injury was unintentional.
Casey died Sunday. Her funeral was Wednesday.
Source: Fox News
This tragic incident is what is called an “accident.” It is legally recognized as a class of event that is different from volitional crime, negligence or even depraved indifference. It is one of the heartbreaking manifestations of chaos which occur from time to time to visit grief and suffering on humankind. It is also of the same order of event that took the life of an 8-year-old boy at the Westfield Sportsman’s Club in Westfield, MA. The boy lost control of an Uzi he was firing and shot himself. (I wouldn’t have allowed him to shoot the gun, and I question the judgment of the adults involved, but that is a different issue.) It was an accident, and both incidents have approximately the same level of probability – extremely low. We will probably all live out the rest of our lifetimes without either of these events repeating themselves.
Of course, there will be no calls to ban golf clubs, or restrict the playing of golf to those 21 years of age or older. There will be no nasty diatribes on “The Golf Guys” about the pathology of the Golf Culture. Perhaps Casey Gauthreaux would be alive today if access to golf balls were tightly restricted, but just read those words again and listen to how absurd they sound. This summer, a high school football player in our town collapsed of heat exhaustion and died two days later. There were no calls to end football. Yet, when a gun is involved in an accident, the vampires at the Brady Campaign and the Joyce Foundation immediately exploit these tragedies to push their agenda. It strikes me as reprehensible.
Life is a risky proposition. There is no guarantee of safety. There never was and there never will be. Sometimes things happen which end our lives before they should be ended. It can happen at a sportsman’s club, a city street, a football field or your own back yard.
If just ONE politician were honest enough to express similar sentiments and actually act on them, working to tear down the overwhelming array of unenforced and unenforceable laws built up around guns I think he’d win any office he ever set out for.
To hell with bribes. People would be lining up to put additions on his house in thanks for his common sense approach to government. No bribes. Just sincere thank you notes expressed in lumber and labor.
Of course anyone with such common sense positions would immediately be targeted by the MSM as some dangerous nut case for his “radical” views. They’d dig up someone he went to school with who would swear that he was a paste eater in 2nd grade and make the election about who did or did not eat paste.
Good government makes for louse news and boring editorials. Walter Cronkite would be seen buying rifles and trying to learn to shoot at long range.
This happened right up the road from where my kids live…
When I saw this on the news my very 1st thought was, some moonbat will want to ban golf now…
My sister got hit in the head with a baseball bat when she was about 6 maybe… Didn’t kill her, but it may explain why she’s been a totally psychotic b*tch for the last 45 years…
Maybe we need to outlaw baseball, no more b*tches anymore, makes sense actually, to a libber…