This > > On May 7, 2020, at 6:57 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > That happens with people who do not train their children properly.
I can’t emphasize this enough. I had NRA handgun training when I was seven or eight years old. There was only an old revolver in the house at the time, but that didn’t matter. Every one of us, even my sister, had NRA training as a child. The safest child around guns is one who has been properly trained to handle them. I’m not saying children should have guns or access to them without supervision. It’s the ones who are untrained that kill or injure people. We recently had a police officer’s high school aged son put a .45 round through the back of his friend’s head while he was playing video games at the cop’s kid’s house. The boy wasn’t trained on how to handle or fire a pistol. He broke into his father’s bedroom where there was a pistol that was unsecured (his service pistol *was* secured in a gun safe) dropped the magazine thinking that unloaded the gun, walked up behind his friend, pointed it at the back of his head and pulled the trigger. Yes, there was a round that was chambered. Anyone who is properly trained on handling firearms would know to check and empty the chamber even if the magazine was removed. This was 100% preventable through education. You could argue the father was at fault because he didn’t secure the pistol, but that argument didn’t fly with the prosecutor because he had made a good faith effort to secure the pistol by locking his bedroom. Tell that to the victim’s family. The cop and his son refused to talk or cooperate. It took almost a month to get enough information out of the two witnesses to come up with evidence to charge the cop’s son. The prosecutor was not happy, but the cop lawyered up and shut up. Shoot, shovel, shut up. In my opinion, the boy should be punished, no question, but so should the father. I can’t fathom having firearms in a house and not making every member of that household participate in training on how to properly handle a firearm. That is criminal in my opinion. -D _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
