“Dallas police said two children — ages 5 and 13 — found a handgun inside a home in the 1800 block of Maryland Avenue and started playing with it in the garage,” khou.com reports. “The gun discharged and a bullet struck the five-year-old, who was listed in serious condition Saturday evening at Children’s Medical Center.” What kind of gun discharges and shoots a five-year-old boy? An evil gun, obviously. Because there’s no way the media can blame gun owners for the potential death of their own child . . .
Or, say, a 13-year-old boy. That would be callous! Even if blaming the gun empowers gun control advocates we must think of the children! “We try to avoid these things and hope that parents are educated so they have their guns locked up in a safe place where their kids can’t have access to these kinds of weapons,” said Dallas police spokesman Sgt. Reginald Matthew. Police are still investigating, but so far there are no arrests.” Interesting.
Shouldn’t the 13-year-old face some kind of legal penalty for his negligence?
There may well be legal consequences, particularly against the parents for making the weapon accessible to a child; but nobody can be arrested before the seventh day following the death, per Texas law. This allows the family to make funeral arrangements and grieve before contending with any criminal aspects of the event.
I am grateful for TTAG –
and I will remember that quote of Hemingway’s “a clean, well-lighted space”…
Happy Hannuka as well, and apropo-
Resisting authority over what you believe to be true, despite pressure. G_d rest your Fathers soul- a good man who I am sure is proud of his rebel son.
… Were these kids playing in an empty house and found a gun? It doesn’t read like it was their parents house.
$25 is a rip.
Sorry guys but superbowl ads have to be exciting in some way. That was a boring commercial. They should have said no.