1-Year-Old in Critical Condition After Toddler Brother Shoots Her

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6. Why are people alarmed?

Many of those who see a handgun as protection from home invasion (a rare crime that is over-played by news and entertainment media) see no point in owning a gun if it is not loaded and available to use. They are convinced of their infallibility in their cleverness in hiding weapons from their children.

I know a family who's nine year old son found a hunting rifle in his parent's closet. The ammunition was under the bed of his 13 year-old brother. He found both. While playing one afternoon, he shot and killed his 6 year-old sister.

The scars left on both brothers manifested itself in addiction and prison. They, too, never recovered as adults.
The parents were never held criminally accountable, but the local DA (in a politically inspired publicity grab) spent years attempting to charge the child with murder.

The NRA's "good guy with a gun" trope kills more innocents than criminals every year. We are seeing stories of children discharging firearms every week.

Our nation's gun fetish is insane.