I would call it horrible negligence.

There's no such thing as an accident when it comes to firearms. If you leave a weapon loaded, cocked, the safety off and the trigger is pulled, it will function exactly as designed.

If you leave them in the vicinity of small children, they will pick them up.

All of these conditions require a deliberate human action.

Heartbreaking, nonetheless.

Accident seems a most appropriate and accurate descriptor of the incident as it was undesirable, unfortunate, unintentional and resulted in harm. That is was a consequence of a deliberate action is, for the purposes of both context and definition, irrelevant.

So yes, accidents do indeed happen in regards to firearms, regardless of how we ourselves may deny a valid definition to better justify it as something else.



"an undesirable or unfortunate happening that occurs unintentionally and usually results in harm, injury, damage, or loss..."

It was more like gross negligence or reckless endangerment resulting in death. If the man had lived I think he should have been charged with a crime.

a horrible accident. how about unavoidable incidents because more guns mean more gun accidents and deaths.

Heh - they don't call them "Terrible Twos" for nothin' ya know!



<- I shouldn't have to put this here. But there's progressives AND regressives in our midst, so I have to play it safe!

As I said before on DU, we can't tell your tone so the flag is very helpful. If you're thinking that what you're saying is so ridiculous, so crazy that the readers will surely see you're being sarcastic, then I say sorry, no, there are some posters that would post the same thing without a smidgen of sarcasm (in fact, they may never do sarcasm).

and he paid for his criminal neglect.

We have to call these travesties what they truly are, and "accident" serves only to cover up the crime.

but hey the gun lobby continues to make their blood money.

people are completely brainwashed into believing up is down.

2nd A! Because FREEDUMB!!!

Pretty traumatic memory, I'd think.

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...accidents. Never. As stated above, it is negligence, plain and simple.

Why do we only hear about the negligent shootings and not the 3 brazillion DGU's every year?

moron parent with a gun.

and gun deaths have been declining in this country, so this is just a sad aberration.

Look, everyone, so long as guns are so readily available in this country, incidents like this will happen. Pretty much daily, as a matter of fact. So acting as if it's tragic or unusual is perhaps hypocritical. It IS hypocritical on the part of everyone who supports the current status of gun ownership.

don't they? And as much of it as possible. So they hire lobbyists.......etc......

because they couldn't find any other reason. To me, this isn't definite proof.

Let me take a wild guess: What if the man was playing with the gun, whirling
it around his index finger (like we see in some Western movies), it accidentally
flew out of his hand, and fired when it hit the floor? This is very unlikely, of
course, but not impossible.

The poor toddler will have to live the rest of his life without his dad.

is just collateral damage. Expand the gun laws! We need lots of new, shiny guns.

There is so little sanity these days and none when it comes to guns. Oh, it's just a non-preventable accident, look that way, there's nothing to see here, sayeth the NRA and it's followers. No law could possibly prevent this, shit just happens. NO! Mandated gun locks would help, mandatory gun training classes would help, background checks on everyone and no gun show loopholes, would help. Doing nothing is what's atrocious. Every year there are hundreds of people accidentally killed by children and the gun protagonists just don't give a shit. I can hardly stand this, it truly fills me with despair.

I am on board with everything you said.

The thing that baffles me is how all these toddlers are killing people with guns. I though guns were kind of difficult to fire? I mean, I thought it took some strength to pull the trigger. I know nothing about guns, but how are all these children pulling off these lethal shots? You would think they would miss every now and then.

With guns come responsibility and sadly there was none of it here.

Things the news forgets to ask??

http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2015/08/man_fatally_shot_at_hoover_apa.html