Toddler dies after accidentally shooting himself with grandfather's gun

[SheilaT]

61. And of course, this sort of thing

is so incredibly rare that it almost never happens, and is such an unforeseeable accident, and of course many more responsible gun owners stop home invaders than children are ever "accidentally" killed by unsecured guns.

Oh, wait. A couple of hundred children are killed each year in such accident. And no one really knows how many home invaders are deterred with a gun, because those stories are mainly anecdotal.

I have long been sick of hearing these kinds of stories. Something like this happens nearly every single day. Meanwhile about thirty people are shot every single day by someone who intends to kill them.

But "responsible" gun owners are never at fault, are they?

I say, any time this sort of thing happens the gun owner needs to be charged with negligent homicide at the very least. Too often it's said that the family is suffering enough. Well, maybe the gun owner needs to not only suffer but serve jail time.

Here's how we start: Every single gun must be registered. Certain ones, the ones known as assault weapons, must be turned in. No more extended magazines. Every single gun owner must carry some kind of liability insurance, so that if the gun is stolen and later used in a crime, there's still responsibility here. Limits on the number of guns a person can own.

How many more people need to die? How many more toddlers? How many more mass murders?