And throw Congress into this mix of the damned. Gunmakers won’t incorporate their personalized trigger lock patents to keep kids from shooting firearms until Congress makes them. As long as we focus on the careless parent instead of the gun that need not operate in a child’s hand, gunmakers and the NRA are happy with maximizing shareholder profits and the child tragedies will continue.
Carmakers too hoped the public would continue to focus on the “nut behind the wheel” instead of their failure to incorporate patents to install collapsible steering columns, seat belts and air bags that would have made cars less fatal when bad drivers cause crashes. It took an act of Congress then to stop the insanity of permissible dangerous product production.
One could hope that the killer father would be hopelessly filled with guilt and want to follow his daughter to Heaven, but I doubt it. I’m sure “God wanted his sweet little angel in Heaven.”
A child of that age isn’t even capable of chambering a round in a 45. It had to be cocked and ready to fire. No excuses or pity for the moron father who virtually asked for this to happen. Throw away the key.
What kind of malicious moron leaves a loaded handgun on the table with a 5-year-old wandering around while they excuse themselves from the room for 10 or so minutes?
It is mind-boggling. It’s barely “negligent” homicide. It’s more like fully wittingly opening the door for the child to do something horrendous.
This is math. When have the insane number of firearms we have, math means accidents like these are inevitable. Yes, the dad was negligent, but that is ignoring the macro element. Through a bajillion guns into a population, and many gun accidents will happen.
My older granddaughter is 5. The cynical agenda of the NRA to increase gun sales by selling the idea that keeping a loaded weapon around makes you safer sickens me. I have nothing but pity for the folks who buy their bullshit.
