Question of the Day: Would Safe Storage Laws Save Children’s Lives?

By Robert Farago

“Ja’Mecca Smith was the youngest of seven children, the baby of the family,” washingtonpost.com reports. “She loved tic-tac-toe and the Disney movie ‘Frozen’ and the color red. She was a member of the first grade honor roll, a cheerful little girl with a sense of humor and a gap-toothed smile. But police say a combination of negligence, a child’s curiosity and cruel circumstance ended her life Saturday, when Ja’Mecca accidentally shot herself in the head with a loaded gun she found tucked between the cushions of a sofa in her father’s home.” Needless to say, the Post peppered their story about a negligent discharge with quotes from the usual gun control suspects . . .

“The fact that a child got a gun isn’t an accident, that’s negligence” Viviana Goldenberg, a member of the Georgia chapter of Moms Demand Action, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution after Clay’s death.

“It’s literally terrifying, and this is happening all over the country,” she continued. “There is no gun owner responsibility. They’re not thinking of what measures to do to prevent access of the children to the gun.” . . .

The advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety says that <a class="colorbox" href="http://everytownresearch.org/reports/innocents_lost/" …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns