Anonymous wrote:

Typical gun owners

Fucking rednecks. I stopped watching when the video was showing a dad giving a gun to a toddler to shoot. This is what is wrong in America.

Do you think the parents should be prosecuted for being responsible for his death?

Typical gun owners

Anonymous wrote:Society needs to step in.

Show me another western/developed country where children (even toddlers) are having accidents with guns.

I agree but the gun lobby and their craven, purchased patsys in Congress will oppose any sensible gun limits. It's all about the money, nothing to do with the second amendment.

A tragedy for the toddler who will never grow up, never experience all that life has to offer.

The rest of the world is appalled by our loony tunes gun situation.

Each of these tragedies involving children is completely preventable. The parent or adult should be held accountable and punished. Period.

Criminally negligent homicide charges for all the parents that end up in this situation. You may say the parent has suffered enough, but prosecutors should do it anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:Awful. This country seems to have become immune to these stories.

I agree. I feel so sad when I read these stories.

-1.

I'm tired of these stories. I don't feel awful if the child kills themselves or their parent or a sibling with their parents gun they found. I would only care if they killed some truly innocent bystander.

Let these moronic, gun loving parents live with the consequences of their stupid gun loving decision. Personal responsibility, people.

So the CHILDREN in a home with unprotected guns are not "truly innocent"?!? It isn't their fault there are unprotected guns laying around. That's a pretty moronic statement.

So so sick. There is almost nothing that makes me as angry as the role of guns in the U.S. today.

Each of these tragedies involving children is completely preventable. The parent or adult should be held accountable and punished. Period.

Society doesn't need to do something about this....each of us can do something about this. Our country is ruled by the vocal minority when it comes to gun safety and gun violence prevention.

Don't vote for candidates who receive high grades from the NRA.

Contact your elected officials and make your voice heard. For every call our legislators get in support of common sense gun laws, they receive 10+ from gun nuts.

Join or support gun violence prevention organizations.

Ask parents if they have weapons in their home before sending your kids for a playdate. If they do have weapons, ask how they are stored. If you don't like the answers, don't send your kid.

The tide is slowly shifting toward common sense - universal background check ballot initiative in Washington state as an example. The NRA and gun extremists didn't become this powerful overnight. It will take time and effort to have common sense prevail, but many hands make light work.

Anonymous wrote:I support the second amendment, whatever that means, but I hate the gun lobby. Their refusal to ever allow reasonable restrictions, scared of the slippery slope, is just infuriating effective. Fighting improvement in gun locks, biometric locks, trigger locks, is a great example.

We need gun licenses with a required safety course.

+1,000,000

Anonymous wrote:Okay, I haven't handled guns so I don't know but don't these things have safetys? Do all these accidental shootings mean that people are carrying guns around without the safety on or is this something that a 3-year-old could easily circumvent?

I can't conceive of carrying a gun in your purse without having the safety on. That sounds crazy to me. Maybe someone more familiar with handguns could enlighten me on this.

They do have safetys but in my limited experience the safetys are easy to switch off and I never felt comfortable even with the safety on.

I support the second amendment, whatever that means, but I hate the gun lobby. Their refusal to ever allow reasonable restrictions, scared of the slippery slope, is just infuriating effective. Fighting improvement in gun locks, biometric locks, trigger locks, is a great example.

We need gun licenses with a required safety course.

Guns kill more kids now than car accidents do. I guess that was to be expected since we are constantly forced by the federal government to make cars safer. But we are not forced to ever make guns safer. Not sure why pro-gun people are often opposed to laws that would make guns safer to own.

Anonymous wrote:Society needs to step in.

Show me another western/developed country where children (even toddlers) are having accidents with guns.

God knows I hate the insurance industry, but I think they could offer some of the solution here.

Society needs to step in.

Show me another western/developed country where children (even toddlers) are having accidents with guns.

Anonymous wrote:I agree with 14:10.
If my iPhone can have a lock to keep toddlers out of trouble you'd think a gun could too.

Seriously someone who understands guns please explain this to me.

Seriously, keep the gun empty and the loaded clip separate. Still quick access for 'emergencies' but much safer

All the gun safety courses say to carry and store unloaded (maybe not concealed carry but obviously she was not carrying if toddler had it).

This is akin to leaving car running in gear with a toddler inside. There are many ways to kill or hurt people in life. Keeping gun loaded is as dumb as leaving car running or having forks sticking out of your electrical Outlets.