Accidental Toddler Shooting Rocks Rural Kentucky, Where Rifles For Kindergarteners Are Commonplace

[Kelvin Mace]

2. I hear this excuse over and over again

"Kristian’s rifle was kept in a corner of the mobile home, and the family didn’t realize a bullet had been left in it, Cumberland County Coroner Gary White said."

That and people get shot while "cleaning" their gun.

No, people were playing around and shot themselves/someone else. The first rule of handling any firearm is to check to see if it is loaded. Only people who are brain-damaged do not, as a matter for REFLEX, check the chamber and safety of a firearm when they pick one up. I have handled firearms, up to and including military grade, my entire life, have cleaned quite a few in my day as well, yet lived to tell the tale.

The level of gross negligence that comes with allowing a 5 year-old to handle ANY projectile weapon is STAGGERING. I would argue that any these people should be stripped of their parental rights, their surviving children be removed from their custody and that they be prohibited from contact with children in the same manner that sex offenders are banned.

These people are a clear and present danger to children, themselves and society.