I saw the kid with the gun inside a ghetto apartment in a housing complex in Chicago in about 1987.Walk into any inner city ghetto and you'll see loaded guns everywhere. I saw a four year old waving around a fully loaded, safety off, cheap copy of a Glock."Why isn't it" is a question I ask all the anti-gun dipsticks. Ignorance causes accidents and bad shit to happen...why do parents and society allow their kids to be ignorant...in more than just firearms.
To be honest, I don't wait for the school to teach my children life lessons. It's really up to us as parents to teach children about the dangers and the safe use of firearms. Why any parent would not want their children to learn basic firearm safety is beyond me, even children of those that do not possess firearms should at least give the children the benefit of knowing about them.
Way too many parents hide their guns away and pretend they don't exist, rather than teaching their kids properly. I don't have numbers handy, but from experience I can tell you that it's the kids who have no exposure or education that are more apt to have accidents.
Guns should be kept "put away", but not inaccessible. Surely you wouldn't want guns lying around the house for just anyone to pick up.
I call bullshit on that. I drive through some of the worst neighborhoods in Houston and I never see children waving guns, or anyone else for that matter.
Someone gently took the gun away. We found three fully loaded safety off illegal guns in that apartment. One in the fridge. One under a couch cushion and the one the kid had.