Out of Pod Experience

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/30/idaho-toddler-shoots-kills-mother-walmart

Now seriously... how can a 2 year even pull the trigger of a firearm? I thought these things where quite tough to avoid accidental pulls... and that they have a safety lock... and... well, I thought that firearms where not something a 2 year could operate accidentally!

Thats why I never go to Idaho.

pistols are frighteningly easy and intuitive to use, dangerously so.

if you have kids you shouldn't have a gun

i fully agree with that too. at least not little ones, or if you HAVE to have a gun you put it where little hands can;t easily grab.

evidently very easily

in the purse is not a secured firearm. In the purse cocked with a round in the chamber and no safety on is just idiotic negligence.
I have no issue with concealed carry by educated and responsible individuals. This person was not one of those.
I have many aquaintances who will not own a firearm due to having small children, I can respect this.
I don't have any loinspawn, so I should be safe until the cats figure out how to load and operate the .357.

They can rip through the safety caps on medication bottles and break into child proof containers.

The real question here is why was a loaded gun with the safety off sitting in a purse where the damn child is playing

So I bet the NRA will argue that this is a strong point for making it even easier to obtain guns- like, had the mother had a second gun, she could have disposed of her child before it pulled the trigger...

Where I come from I would feel safer knowing Law Abidding Citizens COULD carry guns, SINCE only crooks carry guns very illegally in the open and private gun ownership is banned, specially when crooks can easily access fragmentary grenades, small caliber weapons of all sorts they fire with impunity to crowds , cuban armed forces shoot freely on venezuelan citizens , National Guards have to face fully armed inmates IN prison , bored inmates of prisons, already having guns FOR FUN make "duels" with bladed weapons to "first blood" or true death medieval style, and the usual run of the mill pro-government "non affiliated to it" forces repressing people because they can, AS USUAL ...

Yeah ... I would feel much safer KNOWING at least our side could be fully armed TOO.

But that´s just me, on this side of the pond.

You know what, I would love to debate on forums and other venues the pros and cons of gun ownership too like you all do ... yep, that would be hella´fun ... might almost make me feel part of something grand, debating the constitution of my country´s merits an many other things, but alas I dream as usual yep.

Back to space pew pew, at least i can buy guns in Jita NP ...."legally".