GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

[HairOfTheDog]

...and maybe it's not even stupidity. It's people being lackadaisical, they are careless & thoughtless.

I think it's both and, in any case, resulting deaths are due to "negligence" not "accident", in my opinion.

But, they keep getting labeled as "accidents". Lock up the guns or keep them out of reach of children at all times. If you don't and a little kid picks up your loaded gun and shoots himself or someone else, you are responsible for a negligent homicide. That's how I feel.

Anyway.........here's more on the 9 year-old killed by her 3 year-old brother.

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Irondale Police Chief Ken Atkinson told AL.com and WIAT that the children’s great-grandfather had left the loaded pistol on his nightstand Saturday morning, not knowing that the children were coming over. He wasn’t home at the time of the shooting, but the children’s grandmother and uncle — whom police detectives are now interviewing — were, though they didn’t know there was a gun in the room where the children were playing.

“It appears to be a tragic accident,” Atkinson said. Local TV station WBRC reported it doesn’t seem that any charges will be filed, citing Irondale police.

Shootings by toddlers are tragically common. A Washington Post survey in the fall found 43 instances in the first 10 months of 2015 in which someone had been shot by a child age 3 or younger. Of the 15 shootings that were fatal, 13 of them involved the toddlers inadvertently killing themselves.

So far this year, at least four toddlers have accidentally fired a gun at themselves; one of them died from his injuries.



^ Kimberly Reylander, 9, is the fifth person to be hurt in an accidental shooting by a toddler since Jan. 1. RIP.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morn...ts-sister/