3-year-old accidentally shoots, kills 1-year-old sibling after getting ahold of unsecured handgun: SDSO

That wouldn't have happened if the 1-year-old had a gun 🤔

lock the parents up and get that kid some lifelong counseling.

as a gun owner... I find not locking up your weapons abhorrent.

American solution: put the 3yo in prison for forced labour and arm all 1 year olds so they can defend themselves.

the 2 common culprits in all these horrible stories are: 1) human stupidity 2) gun proliferation. solving the first would require eugenism. solving the second is a big american no-no. So don’t call it horrible, just live with it. It’s just a normal by-product of american culture.

It's not immediately clear if any parents were in the home at the time of the shooting.

I guess it tracks that if they left a toddler and a baby in the house alone, they'd also be irresponsible enough to leave a weapon just sitting out unsecured and loaded. What a tragedy.

Sending yet more thoughts and prayers /s.

The only way to stop a bad baby with a gun is a good baby with a gun.

Clearly we need to arm 1 year olds so they can defend themselves

Trigger locks are not hard to get and are inexpensive.

I'm iffy on more gun control, but if there is something I'd want to do, it'd be requiring businesses to provide a trigger lock with each sale.

"As of July 12, there have been at least 217 unintentional shootings by children, which have resulted in 76 deaths and 149 injuries so far in 2023, according to a count by the gun control nonprofit Everytown for Gun Safety"

Fuck this is depressing.

This kid is gonna be fucked up the rest of his/her life.