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A young girl has died after she was shot in the head accidentally by her four-year-old brother.
Millie Drew Kelly, 6, from Georgia in the US, suffered the fatal bullet wound on Monday evening when she sat in a car with her brother outside their home.
The pair, starting their journey to the boy’s baseball game, were left alone briefly when their mother went to check under the car’s bonnet, Paulding County Sheriff’s Office said.
The boy then found the gun inside the car and accidentally fired it at his sister.
This is yet another example of the reality that the gun nuts do not want to acknowledge.
More guns is not always better.
Statistically, having a gun with children means a greater likelihood of an unintended death (accident, suicide, domestic disturbance, etc) like this than the chance of the gun being used to successfully protect the family from a threat.
This is yet another example of the reality that the gun nuts do not want to acknowledge.
More guns is not always better.
Statistically, having a gun with children means a greater likelihood of an unintended death (accident, suicide, domestic disturbance, etc) like this than the chance of the gun being used to successfully protect the family from a threat.
every time things like this come up, those of us that are truly responsible gun owners will tell everyone that the best way to prevent things like this are to EDUCATE the children in the house about guns. teach them gun safety at an early age, mostly to leave the guns alone at that age because of what they can do.
and then the gun grabbers come back with you shouldnt teach children anything about guns for what ever reason they can make up, usually a stupid one. as a result things like this keep happening.
This is yet another example of the reality that the gun nuts do not want to acknowledge.
More guns is not always better.
Statistically, having a gun with children means a greater likelihood of an unintended death (accident, suicide, domestic disturbance, etc) like this than the chance of the gun being used to successfully protect the family from a threat.
Statistically not putting a child into a vehicle drops their vehicle accident death rate to zero. Statistically, having stupid parents puts a child at risk.
every time things like this come up, those of us that are truly responsible gun owners will tell everyone that the best way to prevent things like this are to EDUCATE the children in the house about guns. teach them gun safety at an early age, mostly to leave the guns alone at that age because of what they can do.
and then the gun grabbers come back with you shouldnt teach children anything about guns for what ever reason they can make up, usually a stupid one. as a result things like this keep happening.
As long as you can deal with facts and accept the reality of the well researched statistics I referenced, I have no problem with you teaching your children whatever you prefer about guns.
If you feel that in your household guns are not a threat because of the education you have conveyed about them, I'm not going to dispute that.
The general statistic holds, children are on average more threatened by a gun in the household than they are from a criminal who the gun might defend against.
I'm pretty sure that parent wishes they weren't alive right now so how is tacking on charges going to help.
The parent deserves charges of at least negligence for sure.
The fact that you don’t feel they do tells me unequivocally that you are in the gun nut camp, as you don’t feel that possessing a firearm should ever open you up to criminal prosecution, even if through negligence someone allows children to kill themsleves with it.
The legal owner of that gun should be charged for negligence.
What if the legal owner legally loaned it to the negligent party?
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