She entered his room without knocking.

[mraynrand]

Of course if he had no gun, he probably would have just used a serrated kitchen knife, then she would have bled to death with horrible pain. Good thing in my house, we have trigger locks on all the knives - and hammers - and baseball bats - and numb-chucks.

[Iron Mike]

That kid should've bounced to Agua Prieta before Johnny Law showed up.

[ThunderDan]

obviously the guns fault, not that of bad parenting or foolishly leaving your gun where your pissed off 12 year old could get at it.

It's redundant to say bad parenting...they had a gun in the house.

Of course they did, how would one protect his family if there were no guns in the house? Now a gun where the child can get at....and the ammo as well, that is bad parenting.

The kid's 12, not 5, I'm sure he could get past any hiding place the parents could put it. I mean, sure, they could lock it up in a safe, but then when somebody comes to rob their neighbor's house it'd take too long to get the gun out and shoot 'em in the back. Speed is everything.

First off a combination trigger lock takes about 8 seconds to remove IF you know the combo...second I always keep my clip somewhere else. Could a child who is undisciplined enough to snoop around my room find it, probably, but if said kid was snooping in my room he would get distracted by my porn collection and forget about guns.

My brother did some research on gun ownership while in medical school. Your chance of getting shot during your lifetime goes up around 10,000% if you own a gun. Still less than .1% chance.

Just watch out if you are anywhere near Dick Cheney.