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Well, he was lucky that a child didn't get hold of it and kill another child with it, as has happened so many times.
Such an event happens maybe once or twice a year, but always makes the headlines as though it's another 9/11. In a country of 322 million, unfortunately such things are going to happen. Compared to homicides, or vehicular deaths, or, I don't know, cancer, it's so rare as to be pointless to even discuss.
A similar thing happened to a young Utah mother, a few years ago, inside a Boise, Idaho, Wal-Mart, Her baby reached in her purse, pulled out her loaded handgun, and killed the mother. She was highly educated in a scientific career, but insisted on carrying a loaded handgun in her purse, even in low-risk places.
A similar thing happened to a young Utah mother, a few years ago, inside a Boise, Idaho, Wal-Mart, Her baby reached in her purse, pulled out her loaded handgun, and killed the mother. She was highly educated in a scientific career, but insisted on carrying a loaded handgun in her purse, even in low-risk places.
I wonder why. Was she ever attacked or in a very vulnerable position where she thought that she might be seriously injured or possibly killed? I could see how that could justify - to her - carrying a weapon.
I'm not comfortable with external safeties on my handguns. But I am a fanatic about safe handling and my experience is almost exclusively with Glocks and a Smith and Wesson model the safety due to my department's specifications.
Did this 22 year old forget he had a loaded gun in the diaper bag?
This is all the article says:
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The gun went off as he picked up or reached inside a diaper bag on the floorboard, Evans said after the incident
Doesn't really explain anything. He didn't pull the trigger, so how did it go off? Wouldn't it have had a safety on it, anyway? Even without that, guns don't go off on their own, or just with some jostling.
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