A Sandy woman is in the hospital after she was accidentally shot by her niece on Monday around 7 p.m.There is a simple solution, but gun-rights advocates don't like it. I say anyone who opposes simple solutions to gun violence is partly responsible for that violence. Shame on them.
Sgt. Jon Arnold, Sandy City Police Department, said the 38-year-old woman was doing work on a computer while on her bed. The woman’s 15-year-old niece was cleaning the bedroom.
The niece opened a drawer while cleaning and found a loaded handgun. When the girl pulled the weapon out of the drawer it went off by accident, and the woman was hit in the thigh.
Arnold said their investigation indicates the incident was nothing more than an accident involving a gun that had not been stored securely.
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MikeB,
ReplyDeleteThis example is not "gun violence". The women who owned the handgun failed to secure it and the teen that handled it failed to leave it alone.
The women who failed to secure the handgun is responsible and has a serious injury to her leg as a result.
Again the solution here is EDUCATION. First and foremost teach children to leave firearms alone. Second, when children are old enough, take them shooting in a safe environment. I guarantee children will have MUCH more respect for firearms after actually shooting them -- feeling the recoil and seeing what they do to chunks of wood, concrete, etc.
A woman is shot with her own gun and you say this is not gun violence?
DeleteSomeone who proves to be so irresponsible with a gun that injury results, should never have another chance to act irresponsibly. The next time it might not be a little injury to her leg.
You have no business defining what safe storage means for everyone. Decide for yourself in your own home, and let go of your need for control.
ReplyDeleteIt has nothing to do with my need for control, that's just a stupid attempt on your part to discredit the proposal. It has to do with the half-a-million guns that are stolen each year from guys like you who hate to be told what to do. Obviously you need to be. As a group you are totally irresponsible.
DeleteYou have to justify telling me what to do. There are about 100,000,000 gun owners in this country and 300,000,000+ guns. Of that number, a half a million guns get stolen? That's far less than one percent of the totals, but you say we're totally irresponsible. You use numbers in an odd way.
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