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comment by oyster
oyster  ·  2749 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If we can't have gun control, can we at least have gun education?

Toddlers literally shot more people in America last year than Terrorists yet I see comments every time as if this is a tragic accident and not terrible terrible parenting. My ex never would have left a gun out with anybody around and definitely not a child. I get so angry thinking about that, like here's a country of enough adults for this to have not changed already that are so self absorbed they can't fathom changing their way of life to save the lives of children. I remember reading comments that felt bad for the mother who left the gun on the nightstand since these things are easy to forget. That's why you don't leave it out loaded in the first place. Put the unloaded gun in the drawer beside the mag and practice loading it quickly until you're confident you could under stress. My ex didnt need a loaded gun beside him because he had the skill to put it together easily. I didn't even know where the mags where, he had them hidden somewhere. Also a knife that I never figured out how to take out of it's stupid sheath.