Three year old in Anchorage dead.

Gryphen has a story on the Immoral Minority blog concerning a three year old boy who picked up a gun laying on a TV stand in his home and killed himself.  A similar thing happened to a good friend of mine in Washington State.  His eight year old picked up a gun his dad had laid on the coffee table and was showing his friend when the gun discharged and killed his friend.  Yes it's devastating to all the families concerned but these negligent parents have to be brought to justice.  It's easy to say...they have suffered enough but how else does society get the message across that you are responsible for that weapon and all that goes with it.

At the time of the incident I referred to in Washington, the man responsible for leaving the weapon where an eight year old could pick it up was charged with careless use of a weapon, a misdemeanor, and was fined $100.  Since then, the law has been changed and it is now a felony to carelessly leave a weapon where a minor has access to it.  I don't know what the law is in Alaska but I would be very surprised if it is severe.

I don't care if some macho man wants to strap six shooters on and prance around like he owns the world but he also needs to know that if his weapon that he is responsible for injures an innocent person, he will pay the consequences.