Not Entertainment

[kandrathe]

Just saw this in the Google news list for Indiana:

WTHR - ‎1 hour ago‎
Entertainment News from AP Indianapolis - Metro Police say a three-year-old girl was shot in the head on the city's west side.

Has the state of society really come to this? How long until the movie The Running Man is not fiction?

I read up on that case, and it appears to be an accidental shooting where another child got hold of a gun (ostensibly there was drug dealing/using in that house). It's taken us a couple hundred years to learn that guns and children are really not a safe combination. Of course, drug dealing/use and child rearing are never very safe either.

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But, to be fair, it wasn't too long ago that young boys were recruited to various jobs in the world's armed forces. My oldest boy will be 10 this fall, and is far too young emotionally to be introduced to *real* firearms yet. Through cub scouts, he's getting some exposure to safely handling bb guns, which he loves. I'll be waiting for a few years before getting them through firearms safety training. The bb gun is enough of a danger to emphasize good range rules and to develop safety awareness. Even with their play plastic guns I insist that they never point it at anything they wouldn't intend to kill.

Mind you... They won't have access to them... But, around here in sportsman's country, learning about safety even with his friends stuff is well worth the minor investment.