Personally, I am not anti-gun-rights, but I do know that guns are dangerous and cannot be handled in the same manner as leaving kitchen knives around (which can be dangerous to young children).
The majority of gun-owners I know act responsibly, but as a reminder.....
"3-year-old fatally shoots herself after mixing up wii game with real pistol" by Doug Stanglin, USA Today
A 3-year-old Tennessee girl accidentally shot herself to death after mixing up a wii game and a .380-caliber pistol.
The Tennessean quotes Wilson County Sheriff Terry Ashe as saying Cheyenne Alexis McKeehan picked up the real gun from an end table and shot herself in the abdomen Saturday night.
Her stepfather, Douglas Cronberger, and her mother, Tina Ann Cronberger, both 32 , were inside their rural home in Norene when the accident occurred, Ashe says.
According to a sheriff's department statement, Cronberger had taken the usually unloaded gun from a cabinet and loaded it to go look for what he thought was a prowler.
Afterward, he put the gun on an end table in the living room and forgot about it, the statement says.
Cheyenne, the statement adds, learned how to use a gun from playing a Nintendo wii game for days.
"The big message we're trying to tell parents is if you've got a gun, put it up, especially if you have children," Ashe says.
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