Unintentional Child Shootings Are an Outrage. Here’s How to
Prevent Them.  Murder, theft, and other wickedness. Dec. 12 2013
7:24 PM  Hold Parents Accountable  It’s their responsibility to
themselves, their kids, and society to keep guns out of kids’
hands.  (Continued from Page 1)  I’ve seen no evidence to
suggest that gun-owning parents somehow intrinsically understand
and adhere to ideal safety practices. Indeed, the consistent
pace of unintentional child shooting deaths, across demographic
boundaries, suggests that the opposite might be true—or, at the
very least, that there is more confusion over these rules than
the gun lobby cares to admit. With gun sales apparently rising
in America, it would surely be wise for states to make gun
safety standards explicit: to codify gun storage laws for gun
owners who have children in their homes, and to specify
meaningful penalties for violating those laws.  This is a
monumental task. Almost every gun safety idea that advocates
have suggested has been revealed to be