Do your children always behave in the fashion that your training would lead you to believe they should?
They are children and the adults in their lives need to train AND protect them. From themselves, especially.
Small story from personal experience. I was in Germany and got a call to come home on emergency leave. My 13 yr old brother had an accident with one of my handguns that I had left at home. Farm kids, we all were, and well versed in guns and gun safety. Timothy was home alone and some dogs had gotten into Mom's sheep and he'd grabbed the first thing at hand out of the gun locker to take care of the problem. Fired a couple of shots and ran the dogs off. Went inside and was talking to his girlfriend and it looked like he'd absentmindedly reached up to scratch his head and the gun went off. His G/F said he'd just stopped talking after she heard a loud noise. I wish he'd taken the time to unload when he hit the door like we always did and still do. Our kids need us to be the responsible ones.
The point is that as parents and adults in kids lives, we are responsible for their safety. Teens think they're immortal. That's not a good combination with weapons. How many of us here on this board can say, "It's only by the grace of God that I lived through my teenage years!" because of all the crazy stupid sh- stuff we did?
To this day, and probably until my last breath, I will wish that I'd stored my guns differently when I PCS'ed. I KNOW my father regretted not having had them locked up until he passed a couple of years ago. Love your children but don't trust them too much.
Maybe I misread the article that the OP posted. But in that article it did not mention that the firearm was owned by the kid's parents. Do we know if it was? Or did the kid bring it from somewhere else?
You didn't misread it. There are exactly zero details in the article about how that boy got the firearm. Or where the parents were. Or what kind of safety education he had. Or where the firearm was stored. Or....you get the picture.
Lots of Monday-morning quarterbacking, except that nobody's really watched the game, they're only seeing the score.
Maybe I misread the article that the OP posted. But in that article it did not mention that the firearm was owned by the kid's parents. Do we know if it was? Or did the kid bring it from somewhere else?
the parents must be just going nuts . losing a son , then losing the other to the system . 11 is still too young to baby sit
Maybe I misread the article that the OP posted. But in that article it did not mention that the firearm was owned by the kid's parents. Do we know if it was? Or did the kid bring it from somewhere else?
Some of you seem to be jumping on the wagon of blaming the parents for not locking up a gun which may not have even been in the house to begin with!
^THIS!