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Good legal news, sad story. Now I am going to sound like an insensitive whack job. It's my nature to be analytical and solve problems. So, I'll push aside the tragic death in this case and propose the solution that isn't reactionary. Perhaps, just perhaps, instead of teaching critical race theory, or about two mommies and two daddies in elementary school, children are taught about firearm safety.

I can hear the leftists screaming. Here's the reality: there are more firearms in America than at any other time in our history. That's a good thing. Children can learn firearm safety. I started teaching my daughters fire arms safety when they were 7 and 8 years old. I started them with a semi-auto .22 pistol. With hearing protection it is barely audible, so no big boom to scare them. The trigger pull was light enough for a child to easily use. The goal was to have them safely plinking for fun while learning to respect firearms.

They were taught first how to pick up the weapon safely or receive it from someone else's hand safely. Then to point the weapon in a safe direction while checking to see if it was loaded - with and without a magazine. They learned to never trust the weapon's safety and to always treat the weapon as if it was loaded ... and so on. After about of month of periodic instruction they were allowed to fire the pistol, which they were anxious to do, because they saw how much fun that mommy and daddy had at the sportsmans club's range. Their first target was a print out of Big Bird from Sesame Street. (That's an entirely different story.) Safety lessons continued and they were introduced to a wide range of weapons with all sorts of actions so they knew how to handle just about any weapon.

Recently I heard a story about my one married daughter that made me a proud daddy. Shortly after my daughter met her boyfriend, now husband, she was over his parents house. Her now father-in-law had just built an AR-pistol and had asked her if she wanted to hold it - thinking she needed to get used to being around weapons. My daughter confidently handled the pistol, dropped the mag, opened the action, and inspected it for a chambered round, all the while with her finger to the side of the trigger guard. My son-in-laws family was floored by this and apparently said somethings that prompted my daughter to say, "do you want to see me field strip it?" My son-in-law instantly fell in love (well, it certainly helped the situation.) Moral of the story: Love and guns go together.