Boy, 12, Shot in Face by 11-Year-Old; Neither Aware of Reduction in Gun Crime (updated!)

[GiaGiovanni]

31. The three cases are different in cause

The third case (associated with the photo) was an extremely tragic accident. In California, we have laws about the storage of guns and ammo that largely prevents such accidents. Guns must be stored where children cannot retrieve them (in safes or boxes with locks) and the ammunition must be stored separately from the gun. Guns must also have safeties. This kind of gun law actually works.

The second case was that of a criminal who led the police on a high speed chase and the poor murdered child was "collateral damage." No gun law would prevent this criminal from doing what he did. Even a total gun ban would not have stopped this guy.

The first case is in Camden NJ, which, sadly is a war zone. There are incredibly tragic stories coming out of Camden all the time, and many laws that are simply not followed. Camden needs more than gun laws to save it from the tragedies that occur there every day.

While I am sympathetic to laws controlling who has access to guns and, of course, preventing children from having access to guns, it is intellectually inconsistent to equate the three cases which you put in your OP. I understand the knee-jerk emotion that comes with horrific deaths of children, but one cannot assume that each of these cases has the same cause and same solution just because, on the surface, they seem similar. It's this kind of knee-jerk emotion that results in bad law.