5 year old accidentally fatally shoots his 2 year old sister

[Synthfg]

Originally Posted by privateer

I can see why in the old days you'd give a 5 year old a firearm.
Given you'd probably die of old age at around 30 to 40 year old.

I can't see handing a 5 year old a pellet gun in this day and age though!

Regardless of the type weapon? A 5 year old? And ammo for it?

The issue isn't so much the 5 year old having his own gun, Learning to handle firearms and shoot them responsibly isn't an problem

The issue here is that the parents are irresponsible ****s who
Didn't use the child lock on the rifle
Didn't lock the rifle away when it wasn't being used
Allowed the kid to play with it unsupervised as a toy
Didn't check and double check that it wasn't still loaded after the last shooting session
and apparently weren't cleaning it after it was shot

[Armistead]

I think when I grew up, we got a shotgun before we went off the bottle.