North Carolina 3-year-old who accidentally shot herself on Christmas Day has died

[conuly]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/29/us/north-carolina-christmas-shooting-toddler-dies/index.html

In 2020 in the US, more than 5,100 children younger than 18 were killed or injured in gun incidents, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

People say they get guns to protect themselves and their families, and therefore they MUST have a gun and CAN'T secure it because they need it ready to access, but they really are only putting themselves and their families at risk.

If you want to protect yourself, don't get a gun. If you really do have a reason for it, keep it locked up, with the ammunition locked up separately.

If you're sure that you need a gun to protect yourself from violence - well, firstly, you probably don't, not in the US, but if you did the best way to protect yourself from gun violence is to advocate for better gun control.

This death, like all those deaths, is framed as a tragedy, but really? It's a statistic. Tragedies are rare, isolated incidents, not wholly predictable and common events.

Protect your family by not getting a gun.

Comments

[silveradept]

I am still surprised at the number of people who either do not understand or refuse to acknowledge the first rule of guns: guns are designed to kill what they are pointed at. The correct question about any gun is "Will someone who I do not absolutely trust their judgment about who should live and who should die have access to the gun if I get it and store it in my house?" If the answer is yes (and the question includes the buyer), don't get the gun. That would help prevent so many of these accidental discharge fatalities.