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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All parents should read this article.

It’s better to ask than to find your child dying on the floor when you go to pick her up.  And it’s very disturbing that someone would lie.  They should be held liable if something happens.

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“Her daughter, Brooklynn, had just turned 13 and Mohler visited Brooklynn's best friend's nearby home in Las Vegas to lay down some rules with the friend's single father. It was the sort of conversation that mortified Darchel's three kids.

When Brooklynn was visiting, she told him, there could be no boys. No alcohol. No going out after dark. If she ever got in a car, her seat belt had to be on.
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She and her husband, Jacob, thought their bases were covered. But on the horizon was an issue they didn't foresee: Firearms.
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Jacob was annoyed when he showed up at Brooklynn's friends house to pick her up on June 4, 2013. He'd been trying to reach her on her cell phone, to tell her he was close, but she wasn't answering his text messages -- which wasn't like her. The only reason she had a phone was so that her parents could reach her.
When the door opened, her friend's little brother blurted out that Brooklynn was hurt. Jacob first thought he was being pranked.

The friend was holding Brooklynn and said she thought she'd been shot. He thought to himself, "What the hell are you guys doing with a gun," but he looked at his daughter and couldn't see any blood or a wound. When he rolled her over, he spotted the hole through her lower spine. He went into panic mode, thinking then that she'd either die or be paralyzed.

The story goes that the friend took a 9mm Glock from the kitchen cabinet.... She thought it was disarmed, that she'd taken out the bullets, and was messing with it when it fired.

The friend was freaking out while keeping 911 on the line. Jacob used the CPR training he'd had as Brooklynn gasped for breath. Later, he'd learn that the bullet tore through his daughter's spine before puncturing a lung and then her heart.

"Stay with me! C'mon! Don't go!" he said as he worked to save her before the ambulance came.

"I ultimately knew I was losing her," he says now.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2015/10/22/us/brooklynn-mohler-child-gun-death/index.html

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This is tragic.  The parents set a great example by keeping their own guns locked up in a safe, and by advocating for safe storage. [/quote]

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