@jeffwM to News • 2 months agoToddler, 2, dies after shooting himself while left alone in a Walmart parking lot as his parents shopped for fireworkswww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square166arrow-up1471arrow-down111
arrow-up1460arrow-down1external-linkToddler, 2, dies after shooting himself while left alone in a Walmart parking lot as his parents shopped for fireworkswww.independent.co.uk@jeffwM to News • 2 months agomessage-square166
minus-squareSchadrachlinkfedilinkEnglish0•2 months agoSure, sure, but not every gun owner leaves their gun loaded and unsecured in a car with their unsupervised young child.
minus-square@Ensign_CrablinkEnglish4•2 months agoAnd yet these ones did. And considered themselves responsible the entire time.
minus-squareSchadrachlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months agoI guarantee you they don’t think that way now. I actually know someone something similar happened to and even years later half the house was basically a shrine to the kid.
minus-square@Ensign_CrablinkEnglish3•2 months agoYup. But until that toddler’s corpse was found, they considered themselves to be responsible gun owners. And gun nuts counted them as responsible by default until that instant as well.
Sure, sure, but not every gun owner leaves their gun loaded and unsecured in a car with their unsupervised young child.
And yet these ones did. And considered themselves responsible the entire time.
I guarantee you they don’t think that way now.
I actually know someone something similar happened to and even years later half the house was basically a shrine to the kid.
Yup. But until that toddler’s corpse was found, they considered themselves to be responsible gun owners.
And gun nuts counted them as responsible by default until that instant as well.