A four year old boy playing with a gun:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/08/us/tennessee-gun-death/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
A pistol in the hands of a 4-year-old boy went off during a weekend cookout, killing the wife of a Tennessee sheriff's deputy who was showing his guns to a relative, state police said Monday. No one saw the boy pick up the weapon before the shooting, which occurred Saturday night in Lebanon, east of Nashville, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Kristin Helm said. The single shot killed 47-year-old Josephine Fanning, the wife of Wilson County Sheriff's Deputy Daniel Fanning.These are the unavoidable accidents that are "acceptable" statistically in a Gun Culture, even though the people living in a Gun Culture do not find them ethically or socially acceptable.
It is the same as automobile accidents. The way things are, there will be a certain number of sacrifices of human lives. There is no way around it. In the case of guns, we can talk years and years about keeping guns under lock and key, but then we face the horrifying reality that Adam Lanza of Newtown had a gun safe in his own bedroom...
Another statistic.
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