As a general rule, guns and children should never be within a mile of each other, for it's inevitable what will happen if they are.
3-Year-Old Shoots 6-Year-OldPolice: Man Stored Gun Behind Stove
MILWAUKEE -- A 6-year-old boy is recovering after being shot Tuesday night.
Milwaukee police said a 3-year-old girl found a gun inside a home near Teutonia Avenue and Chambers Street and pulled the trigger. Investigators said the bullet hit the 6-year-old in the stomach.
A 32-year-old man who lives in the house told police he stores a loaded gun behind the stove and that the girl got a hold of it somehow and walked into a room where two 6-year-old boys were playing.
Read the entire story (WISN.com)
The fact that our gun control laws are ineffective doesn't mean we shouldn't have gun control laws, it just means we need better (and more consistently enforced) gun control laws.
I agree that we should have gun control laws, but I fail to see how in this case better or more consistently enforced laws would have prevented this retard from leaving his gun where kids could get it. Unless you're proposing that we allow the cops to regularly patrol our houses to monitor where our legally obatined guns are...
Had you read the whole article, you would have noted that the gun owner is a felon. Felon's aren't legally permitted to own guns. Had the existing laws been adequately enforced, he wouldn't have had a gun to stow behind the stove.
I was once a kid around guns, and somehow managed not to shoot myself, or anyone else. There were some cans that were not so lucky.