Florida 3-year-old dies after finding loaded gun in home and shooting himself

[Carla_Sinclair]

Originally published at: Florida 3-year-old dies after finding loaded gun in home and shooting himself | Boing Boing

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[euansmith]

FTSOAF!!! Couldn’t Dad buy some trigger locks, or engage the safeties, or not leave the guns loaded? This is terrible.

[cannibalpeas]

@Carla_Sinclair

the safe’s electronic lock function had stopped working and he instead placed one on top of the fridge and the other in his nightstand.

Bullshit. You kept them there so you could assassinate the first person who knocked on your door or the Roomba you programmed to run at night. Fuck you and your militant superhero fantasies. You killed your child.

[MagicFox]

Fridge? Sure, I’ve hidden things from the kids on top of that. Nightstand? What you said.

[chgoliz]

@Carla_Sinclair

The father, a Florida state corrections officer, told deputies that his firearms were normally kept in a safe in the bedroom, but the safe’s electronic lock function had stopped working and he instead placed one on top of the fridge and the other in his nightstand.

[gracchus]

@euansmith

Couldn’t Dad buy some trigger locks, or engage the safeties, or not leave the guns loaded?

Let me answer that question about trigger locks and save our ammosexual commenters some keystrokes.

[Works up some crocodile tears]

Don’t you understand? Expecting gun owners to buy expensive trigger locks means poor people living in bad neighbourhoods won’t be able to afford to keep weapons for self defense in their homes.

[chgoliz]

Or, be able to protect their perfectly white families from dark-skinned intruders (that don’t exist).

[Kii]

Some people think that it’s extreme that I won’t let my daughter go to play at a person’s house without me if they have a gun.
It’s not extreme

[euansmith]

@Carla_Sinclair

The father, a Florida state corrections officer,

Practically a Cop; surely he could have just stolen some from work.

[gracchus]

@chgoliz

Or, be able to protect their perfectly white families from dark-skinned intruders (that don’t exist).

Well, yeah, but the ammosexuals who want to pretend they’re liberals usually shed those crocodile tears over minority families living in scary urban neighbourhoods dealing with *Black on Black" violence.

Or at least that’s how it often goes around here when someone brings up mandatory insurance or safe storage.

ETA: It was my first entry here:

Guns Don’t Kill Americans, Stale Bad Arguments Do

Claim: Mandatory insurance on the ownership of firearms would unfairly impact poor Americans and minorities who want to defend their homes and families. This “crocodile tears” argument fails on a number of levels. First, poor Americans and minorities who own cars are required to take out insurance if they want to use those vehicles. Premium rates are not so onerous that most of them will risk real financial ruin by driving uninsured. Firearms premium rates would be likely be significantly lowe…

[chgoliz]

[themadpoet]

I didn’t keep guns in my house when I had small children - now that they are all over 20 I have 3 currently - I have ammo for two of them - all 3 (even the one I have no ammo for) have trigger locks on them.

[TornPaperNapkin]

Remember people it is more reasonable to expect every human being to behave perfectly and with completely lucid judgement at all times than to enact a single law or restriction on anyone’s hobby or paraphilia!

/S

[cannibalpeas]

@MagicFox

I’ve hidden things from the kids on top of that.

Locked and loaded, I’m sure.

/s

[MagicFox]

I’m a responsible person. I always put a trigger lock on the fancy chocolates.

[Shuck]

Remember folks, you can either have a gun that’s ready to be used on that imaginary intruder who comes in at night while you’re asleep, but who makes juuust enough noise to wake you up so you’re ready for them, but they don’t know you’re ready for them, so they come in, expecting to murder your whole family and pow you shoot them first and are the hero of the story, or… you can store your gun in a safe way that won’t pose a much greater danger to everyone in the household than some almost entirely imaginary threat. Just kidding - just having a gun in your house, no matter how safely it’s stored, is a greater threat to the people who live there than even real intruders.

[ddmone]

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[GagHalfrunt]

@Shuck

Remember folks, you can either have a gun that’s ready to be used on that imaginary intruder who comes in at night while you’re asleep, but who makes juuust enough noise to wake you up so you’re ready for them, but they don’t know you’re ready for them, so they come in, expecting to murder your whole family and pow you shoot

…your partner.

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[cepheus42]

Asking me to lock my guns up is clearly an attack on my God given rights to have a weapon of murder easily at hand any old time I want. (that’s me mocking the right folks, that’s not my view).

But yeah, I do lock my guns up. I have a large safe. The guns are in there. The ammo is in an entirely different part of the house. The pistol is in the safe, in a locked bag, and has a trigger lock as well, so it’s tripled locked. And all that despite my wife and I living alone.

Now, ask me why I have guns so I can point at all the violent Nazi’s popping up like gophers in the last six or seven years.

[Franko]

what a horror show. ugh.