On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:43:54 -0500, Jim wrote:

Secular Humorist wrote:
On 9/16/10 4:07 PM, Lil Abner wrote:
On 9/16/2010 11:54 AM, jps wrote:

Because that's what our screwed up laws prescribe...

God forbid we'd try to control the distribution of guns.


BATTLE GROUND, Wash. (AP) - The 3-year-old son of a Clark County
sheriff's detective has died after police say the boy accidentally
shot himself in the head at the family's Battle Ground home.

The Columbian says Ryan Owens died early Wednesday at Legacy Emanuel
Hospital in Portland. Police say the boy's father, Detective Ed Owens,
was off-duty and at home at the time of the shooting late Tuesday
night.

Police say the gun was not a sheriff's department-issued weapon and it
was not immediately clear how the child obtained it. The sheriff's
office mandates that its guns be kept in a safe when officers are at
home.

Sheriff Garry Lucas spent the night at the hospital with the boy's
parents. On Wednesday, Lucas told reporters, "This is a tragedy for
the family involved and our agency."

Battle Ground police, Vancouver police and the sheriff's office are
investigating.



Leave it to gun baanning meddlers to say things like that.
Accidents happen. There is no way to be totally safe.
The family is devistated because of the death of the child by accident.
perhaps we should prosecute your parents for your accidental conception.


A three year old is killed while playing with one of daddy's loaded guns
and you call it an accident? It was negligence at the very least. The
father should be brought up on criminal charges.

Asshole.
If he was letting his kid run the chain saw or cut wood on the table saw
or run the riding mower you might have a point.
But guns are American, and the kid died like an American.

Jim - You want my gun? Take it from my kid's cold dead hands.

Well said.