Girl, 15, Accidentally Kills Boyfriend Playing With Gun: Deputies

[Midwestern Democrat]

28. I don't know - this boy was 15 years old. He should have been old enough to be able to follow

orders from his parents: "Don't even think of playing with the gun". Honestly, there's not much point to owning a gun for self-protection if it's going to always be unloaded and locked away in a safe - if you're the victim of a home invasion, you need to be able to get to the gun a lot quicker than that. I'd have to know more before I would automatically say his parents should be criminally liable.

I knew as young as seven that playing with guns was dangerous - one time an older neighbor boy showed me and some other boys his father's massive gun collection and for laughs he pointed one of the guns at me and pulled the trigger - even at 7, I had heard enough about deadly accidents involving boys playing with guns that I was scared enough to try to run away before he pulled the trigger (as if I could have outrun a speeding bullet).