If you know your handbag has a firearm in it, why would you EVER leave it unattended?
If she was a man I would expect lots of gun stroking/substitute penis jokes. But it’s a woman. Oh, I know! She must have penis envy! High five, Freud.
A squib is just a dud cartridge. The barrel still needs to be pointed at someone.
If you mean blanks, they are known to be lethal at near skin touch range. Still requires safe handling.
If she was the father instead of the mother I’d expect less argument over whether it was negligent or a “tragic accident.”
No, the kid probably won’t even remember his mother. Instead it will be the father who will feel extraordinarily guilty–remember upthread:
Yep.
The gun culture here sucks but at least we don’t have to worry about mother nature murdering us every time we step outside like you do.
You’re right, they should lock her up and throw away the key.
On the one hand you (and my 2004 self) may be correct; it was my fault for not properly evaluating the situation more carefully. But on the other hand, it’s been my experience that firearms instructors want you to very quickly clear a jam.
Looking back, I think my biggest failure was putting my head near the ejection port & looking in while actively trying to chamber a round. I will never do that again. 
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IMO, it will be because his relatives and so called friends will bring it up at every opportunity or make an opportunity. He will be reminded of it oh so innocently almost everyday.
The odds of him actually remembering are what? 50/50 Less?
What % of the population can remember if they have had a traumatic event at, say one day before they are 3 so actually / legally still 2 for hysterical headlines… I digress…
Right now, he does not need therapy nearly as much as protection from all friends & relatives.
IMO
Hanging this around the neck of a really young kid is much worse than the mistake his mother made. :smack:
I don’t think she was Darwinized. She produced offspring, so even if she is dead, her genes survive. Darwinizing is taking someone out before they breed, ¿no?
It was time to change his diaper and he didn’t like the idea so…
He was standing his own ground!
Seriously, where are the laws that give me the right to shop at Walmart or the mall without any danger of being shot? I’m really uncomfortable with the idea of being in large crowds if some are carrying…I know how stupid some people are.
What’s the point of concealed carry anyway? Shouldn’t people have to openly display their weapons, so the rest of us can fairly assess our risks?
You do not have - and cannot have - a right to “complete and absolute safety.” Life is full of risks and dangers.
With all the dangers that are lurking out there, law-abiding citizens who carry a CHL for self protection should be the least of your worries.
There are advantages and disadvantages to CC and OC.
I do both, though I would estimate I OC 80% of the time.
The best policy is to allow a citizen to freely choose to CC or OC.
I report anyone carrying a gun in a store to the police. It is not my job to determine which have a permit, and which don’t. Report 'em all, let the cops sort it out.
“People ask me how I do it
and I say there’s nothing to it.
You just stand there looking cute
and when something moves - YOU SHOOT!”
Ahhh, so you’re one of them. :rolleyes:
So if I’m eating ice cream with my kids at the local mall, and you happen see the 9 mm holstered on my hip, you will call the police? You will do this even though this is Ohio, where there are no laws that forbid OC? :dubious:
Just to let you know, my LEO buddies really really despise people who call 911 to report a MWAG who is otherwise being lawful & peaceful.
The WaPo story linked in post #53 says definitively that the gun was stashed in a zippered pouch inside the purse, the child had to open the pouch, take the gun out and shoot. He shot her in the head, which sounds like miles from “an accident”.
That story says that the family were gun enthusiasts. So, I can easily imagine that the 2-y/o had been exposed to, saturated with gun culture from the moment they snipped his umbilical cord. He knew the gun was there. He knew how to use it. Just, no one had told him “no backsies”.
It’s not listed on theirinformation page. Oddly, I couldn’t find any online reference to licenses to sell at all. All the information that Google pulled up is about permits to buy. I did find federal requirements for background checks for handguns. And that Idaho has a law that says it doesn’t apply to guns manufactured and sold withing the state. So I can’t swear that there wasn’t or isn’t a permit requied to sell.
Regarding militia and survivalist groups in Idaho, for decades Idaho has had full page ads in right wing newsletters and magazines advertising “Idaho - The Way America Used To Be.” It’s one of the reasons they have a lot of California retirees living there, my parents among them, once.
My mom died in Idaho after being married twice. She had inherited two rifles from my dad and a couple dozen from her second husband, who had been a hunter and pistol target shooter. We asked local gun sellers and the local police about the rules and permits and were told that we could sell them any way we wanted. So we went the yard sale and flea market route.
There was a local policeman at the flea market selling knives. He came over to check out the guns and didn’t say anything about permits. I don’t think he bought one. I’m pretty sure they weren’t manufactured in Idaho, at least not all of them, so the exception law wouldn’t have applied.
I’m really grateful that Mom had sold or given away Husband 2’s cannisters of gunpowder. Apparently it’s not uncommon for target shooters to pack their own cartridges. That way they’re sure each load is exactly the same and exactly the load they prefer. I was not looking forward to having to deal with that and was relieved when I didn’t have to.
Oh, and going through her things I found a CC permit. You know how DMV pictures always make you look too sick to drive? CC permit pictures look like mug shots.
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Seriously, where are the laws that give me the right to shop at Walmart or the mall without any danger of being shot? I’m really uncomfortable with the idea of being in large crowds if some are carrying…I know how stupid some people are.
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Actually, you are far safer if everyone around you is armed, since if a crazed killer next to you suddenly whips out a gun or knife everyone can react with the speed of lightning and blaze away in the general direction of the threat.
An armed society is a polite society. Just like Ancient Rome.
Still, at long last this incident may enable true patriots to begin the much-needed subsidized Gun Handling Lessons for Babies and Toddlers in Kindergartens. Defying objections from that commie in the White House.