A 5-year-old Utah boy died when he accidentally shot himself with a handgun in a small town south of Salt Lake City on Thursday, police said.
Lt. Mike Wall with the Santaquin Police Department told KSL-TV the boy found a 9 mm handgun in the back room of his house and fired a single shot. The boy’s parents and siblings were inside the home when the shooting happened but were not with him in the room.
It’s a real shame there’s literally nothing else to be done to curb gun deaths in this country. Oh well, guess we tried.
/s not needed, I hope.
We’re locking up those parents, right? At the very least we’re locking up the one who was registered to own and safeguard that firearm, right?
If you leave a gun you own unsecured such that a child gets it and kills themselves or others, it should be mandatory jail time. How much investigation is really needed here? Did a 5 year old spin the combination lock on a gun safe? Nope.