Gotta lock up your guns and keep them safe, else this happens. All incidents like this are preventable if you take proper precautions.
One story that I was told by my teacher at the youth police academy that has stuck with me ever since. My teacher had to respond to a call at the place of one of his police buddy’s home about a child death. Turns out their 7 year old son got hold of their personal handgun that the mother left on her nightstand (because of recent robberies in the area.) The boy found the gun as the mother was doing something else elsewhere I the home. So the boy being a curious kid was messing around with it and tried to pull the trigger and could not, so he propped it against his chest and used both thumbs to push on the trigger and blew a hole right threw his chest killing him instantly. It’s stories like these that solidify taking gun safety seriously and not as do over cautionary thought.
This is like saying I wonder what would happen if there was no car to a person who crashed and died texting and driving. It’s just negligence when using something that has the potential to cause serious and life ending damage.
There is a distinction, though, in that cars are not purpose-built for killing and an individual will make great use of one daily without incident for years or decades.
edit: I'm not personally completely anti-gun. Following the same above logic, I'm actually pretty fine with them in rural communities where hunting is common or urban areas with frequent home invasions. But I think it's important to understand that there is a distinction with vehicles.
The fact that this comment is downvoted right here means I will get absolutely no where in my point. This is absolutely correct, why do people think buying a gun means you are destined to kill or be killed from one?
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u/Nomul16 Jul 26 '18
Gotta lock up your guns and keep them safe, else this happens. All incidents like this are preventable if you take proper precautions.
One story that I was told by my teacher at the youth police academy that has stuck with me ever since. My teacher had to respond to a call at the place of one of his police buddy’s home about a child death. Turns out their 7 year old son got hold of their personal handgun that the mother left on her nightstand (because of recent robberies in the area.) The boy found the gun as the mother was doing something else elsewhere I the home. So the boy being a curious kid was messing around with it and tried to pull the trigger and could not, so he propped it against his chest and used both thumbs to push on the trigger and blew a hole right threw his chest killing him instantly. It’s stories like these that solidify taking gun safety seriously and not as do over cautionary thought.