美國槍械商竟然瞄準兒童客戶!

The Violence Policy Center issued a study detailing how firearms dealers and gun rights lobbyists attract children as young as six years old to hunting and target shooting, including advertising custom-color semi-automatic rifles.

近日，倡導控搶的"暴力政策中心"組織發佈研究，詳細描述了美國的槍支經銷商和持槍權說客，如何通過包括自定義顏色半自動步槍的廣告在內的手段來吸引年僅6歲的兒童進行狩獵和射擊。

Many rifles are being produced with plastic parts, less weight, and lighter recoil, which make them more usable for children, while more alarming to the Violence Policy Center are guns that come in bright colors like pink or red.

該組織稱："槍械行業已經將目光瞄準了美國的兒童。"許多步槍製作時使用了塑料部件，重量更輕，後坐力更小，更便於兒童使用，更令該組織擔憂的是，出現了粉色或紅色等顏色明亮的槍支。

In one example, the Center points to "NRA Family," a website created by the National Rifle Association, the top lobbyist group for combating further gun control. The website hosts a article to praise the Thompson/Center Hotshot youth rifle, referring to it as "a tiny gun intended for the very youngest shooters -- the ultimate first gun" for children 6-12 years of age.

其中一個例子就是美國最大槍支遊說團體全國步槍協會旗下服務年輕會員的網站"全國步槍協會之家"。該網站刊載的一篇文章大加稱讚了"湯普森／中心"公司生產的一款體型小巧的步槍，稱它是"爲年紀不大的兒童量身打造、可以擁有的"第一把槍"。其銷售目標羣體是6到12歲的兒童。

"Imagine the public outcry if the alcohol or tobacco industries introduced child-friendly versions of their adult products. Yet the firearms industry and gun lobby are doing all of these things and more in their aggressive efforts to market guns to children," Violence Policy Center Executive Director and study author Josh Sugarmann said in a statement.

"想象一下如果菸酒企業向人們介紹兒童版本的成人產品會引起的公憤，"暴力政策研究中心執行理事、報告撰寫者喬希·舒格曼在一個聲明中表示，"爲了向兒童兜售槍支，槍械製造商和遊說團體更是無所不用其極。"

The study also refers to a study by Everytown for Gun Safety, also a gun control advocate, which found one in three children live in a home with at least one gun and that on average, guns kill seven children and teenagers in the US everyday.

這項研究還引用了另一個名爲"所有城鎮都爲槍械安全行動起來"的槍支管制倡導者的研究。該研究發現，三分之一的兒童居住在持有至少一件武器的家中，平均每天有７名幾歲到十幾歲的少年兒童死於槍口之下。