Guns and Bad Adult Judgment Lives Depend On It

You have to question the judgment of these people, in how they permit the proximity of firearms around children.

Washington state has had no less than three shootings where children were harmed by guns that were not kept secure by adults using poor judgment; two of them were fatal, the third left a girl in critical condition recently.  One of the adults involved in the fatality of his own child through his negligence was a cop, who arguably should have known better than someone with less training.

But for pure stupid on the part of adults - and this involved another cop with an ostensibly unloaded gun - takes the cake for dangerous and irresponsible conduct, in which the church administrators and clergy share.  How many accidents every year involve guns that people believed were unloaded......except they weren't?  Fun and gun have a greater difference than one adjoining letter of the alphabet.  The lesson about religion was poorly conceived; the unintentional lesson that guns are for fake violence and playing at violence was worse, especially in a situation where the clear boundary line between fiction and fact are so deliberately blurred.

And then there is this incident where a 13 year old shot an adult instead of another child or himself. Video from Huff Po crime
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I'm always struck by the insistence that everyone involved are 'good people'. The adults who let kids play with guns, the adults who leave guns and kids in cars unattended, the adults who shoot other adults for that matter.......there is always someone around to stupidly say "oh, they were GOOD people'. The rationale behind allowing the Shoot First law, and the lax carry permits - where any permit at all is required for firearms assumes everyone is GOOD PEOPLE. Except they so often prove otherwise.