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Children Under Fire excerpt: A boy shoots himself with his father s gun
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accidents. kids and guns they say, simply don t mix. kids are impulsive. you can t teach that out of a kid, right. you can t. reporter: dr. denise dowd writes policy for american academy of pediatrics. she says kids brains aren t mature enough. they lack impulse control. you can teach them, they can pare it back, but they should not be in end den pent control of the weapon. in her kansas city children s hospital alone there are 30 to 50 cases annually. tragedies she says, that are entirely preventable. if you don t trust your kids 100% of the time, especially when it comes to something that is so high risk. reporter: back on the range. safety is always a top priority for the sure shots. i have to say all of you were very safe. reporter: youth training day ends with diplomas. it s clear these kids and their parents believe deeply in the right to bear arms at any age. but in light of this latest tragic accident, gun critics wonder at what cost. for nightline, juju chang,
the music, indication for the music, indication for the next story coming up here that a family scared their house might be haunted and might have to call the ghostbusters. instead they probably would have been better off calling a snake charmer. all of the strange things happening in the middle of the night. furniture moving. dishes breaking were the result of a giant python slithering about, if. the unwanted guest keeping the frightened family on edge. for week this family feared something supernatural was haunting their hope. there were objects moving here and there. things were falling over, a lamp, for example. my wife and i, we just it was a guest. reporter: the nefarius noisemaker, knocking over wine glasses and decorations in their canadian home was no ghost. instead this 10-foot long, reticulated python, enough to make indiana jones himself slither away in fear. why did it have to be snakes? i am a bit creeped out by it. not going to lie. rachel lake and