A two year old around the corner from my house found his parent’s gun in a laundry hamper and accidentally shot himself, but hey, don’t get your dander up about it. He’s only dead. He’ll be fine.

I remember Columbine. I was terrified for the welfare of two college friends of mine, school teachers in that area. It turned out that they teach in the next town over. They were safe. Many others died.

Yep. My dad (retired military) taught me the rules of gun safety even though we didn’t *own* or *use* any guns.

You left out: there is nothing that could have been done to prevent this, so lets not waste our time trying to prevent these easily prevented horrors.

Suicide in Australia plummetted after they enacted strict gun laws. People are weirdly a-ok with folks killing themselves. Well, people like the NRA. Wonder if they consider it their god given right to end their lives?

I assume he was never a safe gun owner, he was a lucky unsafe gun owner up to the point that his luck ran out.

You are so dumb and are flooding my thread with misinformation left and right. Misinformation that could prevent children from receiving much-needed therapy. Get lost. I regret not dismissing your first reply, but I tried to give you a chance to bring something to the discussion. That was DUMB OF ME so my bad on that.

After reading one of these “kid shoots mom” stories, I expressed my horror to a friend who grew up in Alabama. Her response was some variation of “well things like that just happen.” My response that it doesn’t happen in houses without guns clearly stunned her. And (because I am not friends with idiots) changed her…

Replying to you as to not flood the other gun rights activist’s notifications, but I wanted to go over more childhood trauma stuff in case it helps anyone out there. Everything that happens in the first five years of our development shapes us for the rest of our life. We all have triggers as adults that we aren’t even…

My kids remember a LOT from when they were 3. Also, this 3 yo has been removed from the family and is with strangers. “She’ll be fine” is a frighteningly dismissive attitude to take.

May I suggest that you do some reading on the psychology of toddlers? Who am I kidding, you don’t need to, you sound like a real expert.

He was a safe gun owner a month ago. You guys are all safe gun owners until the baby shoots.

Yeah, some 3 year olds are traumatized by divorce alone, this kid who just shot pregnant mama and is now in CPS separated from only caregivers they have ever had will be A-Ok according to you. Whew!

No doubt—a very, very dumb move. I’m not a gun owner, but even so, I know that you should treat every gun as though it’s loaded at all times. But HE had previously considered himself a safe gun owner.

Who handles a gun without always assuming it’s loaded anyway?

He’s apparently not that well-versed in safety. There’s never any reason to pull the trigger on a gun, loaded or not, unless you’re pointing it at something you’re okay putting a hole in.

A friend of my dad’s recently told him a story. Guy is a life-long gun owner, considers himself well trained in safety, etc. He was recently putting away a handgun away in a closet. He’d taken out the magazine, and didn’t realize that there was a bullet in the chamber. He went to “dry fire” it, and the bullet went…

Free Membership for Babies! NRA.

Another traumatized child thanks to dad’s need for a second dick. I still think about the 9 YO who shot dead her gun instructor with an Uzi (if that is not spelled right, who cares?) all because her parents probably wanted cool Facebook photos of their daughter. Guns are stupid. Yes. All of them.

Good baby with a gun, something something, thoughts & prayers.