Sebastian Swartz, 9-Year-Old Boy, Dead After Shooting Himself With Father's Gun In Ohio

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92. The more numerous example of the negligent gun owner in the home

is already prosecuted. One was thrown in jail for it in the city next door to us just a few months ago, convicted of criminal negligence. (Oddly a police officer in the next town east did the SAME EXACT THING and was let go, but w/e)

I agree, the 'dumpster gun' is, in most towns, a black swan. But I suspect we aren't talking about the same sort of training either. When you say one to two days devoted to it... That throws red flags for me. How many ways can you say 'stop, don't touch, leave the area, get an adult' before the kids tune you out anyway? Our class was short, or rather, a fragment of it. Covered other things as well, like remembering where we live, crossing with the light, smoke alarms, shit like that. It didn't take a day, let alone two, and I would consider investing that much time into it to be an absolute crying waste of time, because you'd be lucky to hold a kid's attention on this for an entire hour.

And the people who advocate teaching these kids HOW TO SHOOT to engender 'respect' for the firearm, can fuck right off, and I assume they are trolls. My high school had a rifle team, but admission to it was elective, and extra curricular. You couldn't put the whole school through it if you tried, in a year.

By all means, require safe storage. Have penalties for negligence. Sentence augmentation, etc. But that only gets you partway, and only as a form of redress when the adult is actually negligent. I have witnessed such negligence in my own family, and it gave me fucking nightmares. I'm totally on board with you there. But a practical 'don't touch' message at school isn't a bad thing, and would cost practically nothing to deliver. Bookend it onto the anti-drug use message they are doing anyway. Done.