This Internet meme comes courtesy of a facebook page charmingly entitled, "Hate Liberals? Bite Me." which describes itself as "A page to vent about the GOP, the Teanderthals and other useless conservatives, racists, homophobes and women-haters."
This is an in-your-face meme, designed to provoke a strong reaction.
It seems, tragically, to be factual in describing the circumstances surrounding the child's death.
The gun's provenance does not seem as definitely proven as the meme proclaims. According to the Akron Beacon Journal, in its reporting of the story on January 24th, detectives were still working to track its history:
"Where the trail of Terrance Allen’s gun started, like the trail of the 1,200 other guns seized since 2011, is part of the ongoing course police are charting. Nice’s goal, he said, is to one day see harsher sentences for illegal gun possession.
“Terrance is the typical guy we see,” Nice said. “It’s not the hunters or the registered gun owners that we’re seeing. It’s criminals. That’s why we want to know how they got the gun, where the got the gun and why they’re not in jail.”
The meme's claim that "a background check could have saved a life", therefore, is speculation and not a matter of fact.
I don't enjoy visiting this group's facebook page and I don't like looking at this meme. It is inflammatory, provocative and manipulative.
But yet, I can't bring myself to argue with it. Can you?
To quote Gabby Giffords, "Too many children are dying."
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