[kaehurowing]

Oh Beloney!

[Mollypitcher1]

Accidents will happen when people are not educated about handling anything that could cause harm. That goes for a bottle of CLOROX just as well as a firearm.

[Eagles6]

I’m pretty sure it didn’t just “go off”. Someone didn’t keep their booger hook off the bang switch while playing gangster.

[rikkir]

Where did said gun come from?
Being that they are not charging anyone for negligence in the ownership of the firearm, I’m gonna guess these two nimrods got it illegally.
So taking someones legally owned gun, with which I trained my kid not to shoot herself, or anyone else, makes perfect sense.
Yeah...right.

[Drew68]

handling what they thought was an unloaded gun last weekend

You never think a gun is unloaded. You verify a gun is unloaded.

I have a half dozen firearms in my closet that I know without a doubt in my mind are unloaded. Yet the first thing I do when I pick one up is point it in a safe direction while I open the action and visually inspect the breech.

That's how you avoid accidents. An unloaded firearm will never hurt anyone unless you knock them over the head with it.

[expat2]

If the kids had been trained in the use of guns, this would probably not have happened. The first rule in gun safety is "The gun is always to be considered loaded" and the only exception to that is if you have JUST deliberately cleared the gun of all cartridges in the magazine and in the chamber(s).

[OldSmaj]

The gun is always loaded!

Rule #1!

[kaehurowing]

This is pretty good on the black community’s healthy position on guns:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/9RABZq5IoaQ?feature=player_embedded

[Cboldt]

I can sure respect the "not a toy" lesson.

Is she going to press to get rid of bleach, anti-freeze, and Drano too? Or just "guns"?

[jsanders2001]

False flag bull$hit and mamufactured story. First of all, “real” gun owners...you know, the conservative types who are used to handling guns and know how to use them:

1) don’t play with guns especially inside of their homes
2) treat all guns as if they’re loaded
3) never point them at anyone unless its intentional
4) don’t pull triggers without checking the chamber first and making sure the magazine is out of the weapon

BS story to advance an agenda. Give it a few days and it will come out once they start checking into it...

[tumblindice]

“negligent discharge”> some azzclown got his mitts on a gun.

[JennysCool]

She has decided to use the tragedy

I wish people would stop "using" tragedies.

"Never let a crisis go to waste" and all that is poisonous.

[Secret Agent Man]

Idiots can kill themselves with anything, not just guns.

Idiots in cars kill more than guns. Pools/water kill more than accidental gun deaths.

[Tupelo]

Da gun dood it.

Another promising rap career cut short by an eveel gun.

[bgill]

Stupid is as stupid does.

[trebb]

The time for teaching gun safety is before one handles a gun - not after someone who hasn't a clue does something stupid. I began my training at 4 with a Daisy BB gun. Got a literal kick in the ass for not checking a weapon when I was 10. 52 years later and I have never neglected to check a weapon safely to verify its status.

They will insist on teaching kids perverse sex practices in schools - think of how much good they could do if they taught actual gun safety and had shooting programs like we did when I was in school (in NY no less).

[Vinnie]

I’ve got an idea!
Why doesn’t an organization, NRA for instance, develop a gun safety program that could be used in schools or the community?
/s
I’m sure educators would welcome it with open arms.
Gigantic /S

[DoodleDawg]

"Maybe I'll inspire somebody to get rid of their gun and maybe save a life that they would of took with that gun,"

Maybe she should inspire people to treat all guns as if they were loaded and double check before they do something stupid?