Watch Video: Parents, If You’ve Got Children At Home, Get Rid Of the Guns: Five-Year-Old Accidentally Shoots And Kills Four-Year-Old Sister
This tragedy is yet one more example as to why we need to re-think gun ownership, especially for parents who keep weapons at home where there are children. As we have said before, having both a gun and a child at home is a deadly combination.
In the wake of a tragedy like this one, there are important questions that should be asked: Why hasn't the gun industry instituted basic safety features to keep children from accessing and firing handguns? The gun industry could, if it so desired -- or mandated through legislation -- create a host of common sense features that would reduce the lethality of guns. For example, minimum trigger-pull standards would help prevent very young children from being able to pull a gun's trigger.
And secondly, why are parents leaving loaded handguns in the home where children can gain access to them? Did the gun dealer and/or gun manufacture appropriately warn the parents that by owning a firearm, they have put their children and themselves at greater risk of violence, either through an unintentional shooting or a suicide?
It is likely that the parents purchased a gun for protection, but instead, they ended up inviting tragedy into their home. There is plenty of blame to go around in a tragedy such as this. But leave no doubt, that the gun industry is also partially to blame for their incessant stone-walling of common sense safety measures.
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