I am so fed up with a society that refuses to

make gun owners responsible for their actions (or in some instances their inaction). Point in case, a Highway Patrol Officer living in Guthrie, Oklahoma, knowing his 3 year old nephew was going to visit him this weekend, left a loaded gun where the 3 year old could access it. And then people are shocked when the child picks up the gun and ends up shooting himself and dies. What is the reaction of the Oklahoma HP? What a tragic accident.

This was a trained law enforcement official who knew that a 3 year old would be coming into his house. It is beyond irresponsible to knowingly leave a loaded gun where a child could access it. A 3 year old child is not old enough to understand how dangerous a loaded gun could be. The child might have just as easily shot someone else in the house. They doubt that the owner will face any charges. My response it why not? I don't understand why he is not charged with negligent homicide. What happened was a foreseeable consequence of putting a loaded gun in close proximity to a child who is too young to know what he/she is doing.

Until society stops calling these incidents accidents they will continue to occur because nothing is learned and nothing changes.


GUTHRIE,Okla.– Deputies rush to a home of another law enforcement officer and make a tragic discovery once they get inside.

It was just after 12 p.m. Saturday when Logan County deputies were called to a home on Derby Lane regarding a shooting.

Investigators soon learned the victim was a 3-year-old boy.

Capt. Rich Stephens, Logan County Sheriff’s Department, said, ”He had apparently located a handgun inside the residence and succumbed to a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.”

Officials say the boy was visiting his uncle this weekend, who happens to be an Oklahoma Highway Patrolman.


http://kfor.com/2012/12/16/toddler-shoots-self-inside-troopers-home/