Arizona will not even talk about ways to protect children from weapons

Shame on the Republican legislator of Arizona, for his complete disinterest in protecting a boy like Christian Peillo.

The parents of Christian Petillo, a 15-year-old who died in an accidental shooting, continues to plead for the laws of secure weapons.
The draft law 2214 of the house, which would respond to the owners of weapons if a child accessing his firearm, did not give a hearing.
It is unconscious that the legislator continues to give priority to the rights of weapons on children’s safety.

On Monday, the House in Arizona unanimously adopted a draft law to retain toxic and harmful dyes The lunches in school.

“Arizona,” announced the sponsor Bill, Rep. Leo Biasiucci, “he is ready to put the health of our children.”

It’s a good bill.

And a total lie.

If the Legislature in Arizona is truly willing to put the health of our children, our leaders would act not only to keep their blue dye in their food, but also in their hands.

“We can’t even get a hearing,” Bruce Pelylo told me on Monday after -Amania. “He (the judicial president of the house, Quang Nguyen), will not even talk to us. I have reached him in the last two years on many occasions, and he will not answer. “

Christian Petillo died in 2021 to a sleep

I understand. It must be uncomfortable for a politician to talk to the scary parents, while facing the covers with the National Association of Rifle.

Christian Petillo was 15 on September 5, 2021, the youngest child of Bruce and Claire Peillo in Gilbert. It was a Sunday, the night before the Labor Day, and was delighted as his father he threw him to a friend’s house for a sleep party.

“He was a great sportsman, only a wonderful child, with a good soul. Very sensitive, “his father told me. “He laughed at his belly and had a smile that could light the room when he entered. But he was a teenager.”

No one has ever received the full story of what happened that evening.

The boy who hosted the party took out a weapon. The 14 and 15-year-olds passed it. Has it extinguished and Christian?

Never had a chance.

MPs choose weapon rights over children

No changes have been made. It was an accident, after all – an unthinkable tragedy, which is not so inconceivable when children have access to their parents’ weapons.

In Arizona, Is not a crime.

Petillos spent a few years trying to get the legislator to cross a draft law that required the weapons to be blocked in a safe or equipped with a trigger guard.

Republican legislators have been terrified -more interested in protecting their right to keep their corner on the coffee table than to protect a child from a chest.

So this year, Petillos returned.

Instead of proposing that the weapons be kept safe, they proposed that the owners of weapons be responsible – to take “reasonable measures” to prevent a minor from obtaining their weapon.

If not, they could be accused of incorrect conduct involving weapons -a 6th grade offense if a child accesses their firearm and a 4th grade whether or injured seriously or kill someone.

Pistles are a main cause of accidental death

Once again, Nguyen even refused to hear Bill House 2214.

Representative Nancy Gutierrez, D-tucson and sponsor Bill, among the frustrated.

“It is terrible that Arizona does not have a legislation to prevent the violence of weapons and that even a draft law that makes parents be responsible if their weapon is used to cause injury is (considered) ridiculous,” he told me. it. “It is time to do something to prevent the killer no. 1 of the children in our state. ”

Actually weapons are the second The main cause of accidental death Of the children in Arizona, behind vehicle accidents.

Christian was one of the 56 children in Arizona killed with weapons in 2021.

Two years later, 68 children in Arizona were killed with weapons, according to the latest state report on children’s victims.

And the legislator is as uninterested now as when he did a bold thing in this regard.

Christian’s law is dead but parents try

Nguyen, R-Presrescott Valley, did not answer a question about why he would not hear the draft law in his judicial committee. Last week was the deadline.

But then, this is the type that earlier this year was terrified not with the number of children killed by weapons, but by the recommendation of the fetality of the state child as parents Get rid of their weapons or stare it safely.

Nguyen called it “unjustified attack on the second amendment.”

So Christian’s law? Yes. He is as dead as a 15 -year -old boy who should turn 19 next month.

Petillo says he and his wife will return next year, and the next year. It is the way they channele their pain and their desire to protect others from hell waiting when your child is killed and your leaders shrug.

“The children die of weapons and we can try to explain it or we can have a discussion,” he said. “A pragmatic discussion about moving ordinary laws in place to hold the weapons from the hands of children.”

Or no, as it turns out.

Children? Are on my own.

Because indeed, what is most important? The life of a child or your 100% rating with ANR?

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