Source To bad there aren't laws regarding keeping guns in safe and secure locations. If that were the case then the homeowner could be charged with criminal negligence when kids accidentally pop a cap in each other, or in themselves.
My five year old doesn't stick shit in open electrical sockets, nor does she touch unsecured firearms. Wonder why that is?
The parents that leave a loaded gun where their kids can find it are the same parents who leave liquid drano near where their kids can drink it..just careless parents and it's hard to make a law to avoid that.
Electrical sockets aren't nearly as cool as guns. I'm assuming it's one of those forbidden yet cool things, like porn magazines.
Thing is, you don't just 'forbid' it. If there is a reason that a kid shouldn't do something, you explain it to them, and then you protect the kid from being a kid and hurting themselves by making sure they don't have access to something like an unsecured, loaded gun. Even better, you go out shooting with them and you TEACH them proper safety, so that when they find a gun at a friend's house because the stupid dad didn't secure it.....your kid will know how to secure it properly. I said it on Flow's thread too. No parent can protect their child from everything that they consider bad. The responsibility of a parent is in preparing the child so that they know best how to deal with a situation like finding a loaded gun underneath the bed of your friend's dad. Or that they know they shouldn't stick their finger in a light socket, or that they know they shouldn't drink the bottle of rubbing alcohol they found in the bathroom under the sink.
You know, I keep hearing in the news about these mythical guns that magically go off simply by being held by a child, but I've yet to see one.
They're the guns that have .0001 lb trigger pulls and ultra powerful magnets that repel from the iron in the blood of Humans. Designed by Copper blooded Vulcans, they are rare.
Meh, stupid parents. My kids have had their own guns for a few years. The key is that I keep em secured.
So are you two claiming the incidents mentioned in the article never happened? Or are you just trying to desperately claim guns aren't inherently dangerous in the hands of unsupervised children?
Nobody with a sliver of common sense is going to make that claim. But neither would that same level of common sense allow you to assert that these stories indict anything but negligent parents.
What about kids that get run over by running out into traffic? I'm betting a couple of those happened in the same timeframe but, oddly enough, weren't picked up by the international news.
^^^ I propose some kind of background check on all automobile purchases, and maybe a five day waiting period to boot.
Actually, I was being smarmy and sarcastic. ...but since you ask, I do claim that the particular incident that I quoted didn't happen....at least not the way that it was reported. Guns don't "go off" simply because they are being "held"....just as cars do not drive away simply because someone is sitting in the driver's seat. At the very least, at some point someone had to pull the trigger. The verbiage used was poorly chosen at best, and intentionally misleading at worst.
Which is why Littleflow was shown the consequences of pulling that trigger, and asked point blank if she ever wanted to put a hole in someone, say her little cousin.
I'm guessing littleFlow came close to pointing said gun at said little cousin, and Daddyflow reminded littleFlow that little cousin could get a nasty hole, while littleflow presumably does not want to happen. That's my take.
Assuming the safety was even engaged in the first place. The guy probably had a round in the chamber and forgot to engage the safety.
...or that the gun had an actual safety to begin with... ...which is why I used the initial qualifier that I did...to simplify things. Obviously, it didn't work, because now here we are getting all tangenty.
Unless it was a revolver, in which case the kid would have had to cock it, then pull the trigger (assuming they're not strong enough to squeeze a double-action trigger). Either way, the stupid kid is pulling the trigger.
Nah, just imagining the worst case scenario of her and her cousinlings running around unattended. She's also under standing orders to run screaming should another kid ever find or pick up a gun.
