By all means, share some actual statistics showing that children are safer in a home with guns. Every statistic I have read, everywhere, speaks to the contrary. You are speculating, but I don't think any of your assertions are true. Statistically speaking, children are safer in a home without guns. I am not making the…

All I have to say all is that when my dad was 4, he got ahold of his father's gun and decided to play cowboys and Indians with his best friend of the time. Shot the kid at point blank range in the face killing him. My father grew up, without counseling, this was swept under the rug, and this is the root reason for why…

Why in the goddam fuck do you need to take a GUN to a shopping centre? And if the answer is, "To ward off other people with guns" then fix your freakin' gun laws!
What a tragedy for that poor child. A victim of his own mother's stupidity. Christ on a bicycle.

It's sad that stuff like this happens... I remember the days when kids accidentally shot their parents in locally-owned mom and pop stores.

I don't know, maybe they'll try him as an adult. It's all the rage.

What possible reason could a young mother with multiple children have for carrying a loaded firearm on a shopping trip to Wal-Mart?! Wal-Mart is a threat to the economy but guns aren't going to do shit to stop that.

Would you, as what seems like a reasonable and responsible person, give up your weapons for a country with significantly less gun violence?

My immediate thought. That poor boy is going to have to live with this and it's not at all okay that he should have to.

I know this sounds terrible, but I'm having a hard time feeling any emotion stronger than the frustration I'm feeling at this story. Is it a devastating situation? Of course. It's also a wholly preventable one.

you're only responsible until you make a mistake. And most of you will make a mistake. It may not end up this badly but you will make a mistake.

The horrible thing is that even if (God willing) he's young enough to forget the details, his 3 siblings, who were with him and his mother, will most likely remember all too clearly what happened and how.

That the child will have to live with the guilt and trauma of this is heartbreaking.

These "child shoots mother/brother/sister/neighbor" stories are heartbreaking. Because this child's mother was so irresponsible, this little boy will have to live his entire life with the burden of having killed her. Hopefully he's too young to remember.

Will someone please tell me again about "responsible gun owners" because I'm stuck on the fact that a child will have to grow up knowing s/he killed their own mother. What's it going to take to get the NRA to stop calling the shots, America?

Law-abiding gun owners. Responsible gun owners. Centaurs with golden colons. Mermaids with emerald sphyncters.

If only there had been a good guy with a gun there to shoot that baby.

Thanks, Colin. You have officially ruined Jewish Christmas!

Pretty sure they're genuine Cookie Monster pelts.

It's free-range cardboard.

There do happen to be a lot of feminists out there who are Christians. You would never know it from reading this site around Christmas however (or the piece on Good Friday about rejecting religion). Religious skepticism is not required to be feminist. I don't object to these articles appearing on this site (there…