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In reply to the discussion: Sebastian Swartz, 9-Year-Old Boy, Dead After Shooting Himself With Father's Gun In Ohio [View all]harmonicon
(12,008 posts)It goes like this: don't fucking have a gun. Boom! Problem solved! If you don't want people in your house to die, the first step to ensuring this is to keep your home free of devices designed for killing people.
I don't have kids, but if I ever do, there's a simple way I'm going to make sure they're as safe as possible when it comes to being harmed by an insecure gun. 1. I will never have a gun in my home. 2. I would never let my children into the home of someone who did own a gun.
Do you think children should be playing around in a house where someone builds bombs? Really, I go back to that analogy. Do kids need to know how to disarm bombs? Of course not, because that would be ridiculous.
You say a child died because someone didn't properly secure a firearm. Why is the securing of it the step you focus on for the cause of death? The gun performed admirably. It did just what it's designed to do. Maybe the part to focus on is not where or how the gun was kept, but that it was around at all.