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Originally Posted by Sdirector
Sorry, none will be given.
It is not a baseless presumption. Any gun owner who is responsible knows that there are three rules for firearm safety. 1. Always treat the gun like it is loaded until you have physically and visually verified that it is not. 2. Always keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction. Do NOT point a gun at anything at anytime that you are not willing to destroy. 3. If anyone is not capable of following nor do the know these rules (I.E. Young children), steps must be taken to be sure that the gun is not with that person unsupervised. This means safes, etc.
So, quite clearly, one or more of these rules were not followed in this instance.
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I guess what worries me here is that someone might THINK their child knew the rules and was capable of following them, but they might be wrong. There is really no way - NO WAY - to know for sure in advance what any particular child or teen would do with any particular set of circumstances - and this would be even more true for foster children that come from backgrounds we know little about. Now, I'm not even being specific to the gun issue here - but that line caught me in general. My foster teen did several things that I totally would not have expected and could not have prepared for. So I guess what I'm saying is that you can teach your kids all you want about gun safety, but the only SURE way to be safe is to have the guns and ammo locked up all the time with the key hidden in a place they can't possibly find it.