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Compare & Contrast

So, a couple of morons decide to clean weapons over a bucket of beer. A toddler winds up getting shot. Good thing for the guys involved they were police officers or they would have been charged with a crime. Up next, a non police officer stupidly leaves his weapon where is kid can find it. Kid shoots the other kid. He was arrested after the funeral.

And it begs the question that Tam asked so eloquently:

Something tells me, however, that this was the kind of guy who didn’t put covers on the electical (sic) outlets. Or store dangerous chemicals in safe places. Or cook on the stove with the pot handles turned inwards. And if the child had been electrocuted, or drank a tall frosty glass of Drano, or died from severe burns after wearing a pot of boiling Ramen for a hat, would he still be free to get a chance to contribute to the death of another one of his children while we all shook our heads at the fateful “accident”? Are some kinds of negligence more heinous than others?

Of course it’s more heinous! It involved a gun!

Update: And, yes, I’m fully aware that the second is skewed by the fact the child died. However, drinking beer and shooting someone seems far more negligent than leaving a weapon out.

5 Responses to “Compare & Contrast”

  1. Kevin Baker Says:

    Normally I’d agree with you, but according to one story I read, this is the SECOND time that the young boy who shot his sister accessed his father’s pistol. Daddy had a tendency to leave it, sans magazine but with one up the spout, on top of a book shelf. Junior found it once, and discharged it, striking no one.

    So Dad put it back in the same place in the same condition????

    Negligence.

  2. SayUncle Says:

    I agree it’s negligence. But drinking, pointing a weapon and a child, and pulling the trigger seems more negligent to me.

  3. Scott Says:

    When intoxicated, is it in safer behind the trigger than the wheel of a car?

  4. rightwingprof Says:

    A moron guy here shot himself in the hand trying to shoot bees. No calls for gun control, though.

  5. Tom Says:

    I’ve asked it elsewhere, but WHERE is CPS and when will they be relieving the father of custody?

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