Lets say children decide to "horse play" in the pool and somebody drowns and kills his or her brother or sister, how is that any different than if they shot their sibling?
That's why we need armed faculty and staff at schools.
And it is also common sense and basic safety to have somebody watch over the children when there's a gun present, or don't have the gun where the children can get to it.
Which they shouldnt've done.
Sure its criminally negligent, but there are many other ways in which parents can be criminally negligent that don't involve guns.
Leaving a loaded gun in a car where a child can reach it does not fit that description.
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Again agreed and if the child had died by any other mean then we would be discussing that instead.
Again, agree. But i would also point out that the real problem here is the lack of law enforcement. It without doubt, sends the message that stupidity with a gun is an acceptable part of your society. That a childs death is mere collateral damage to the more important right to own a gun and do as you please with it without fear of consequence.
Gawd, a nation of pantywaists.
So therefore this is an issue of parental criminal negligence not guns.
