Well that sucks...

Perhaps you've confused police officers with security guards.  Security guards are employed to protect people or property pro-actively.  Police are employed to enforce the law after the fact, except in specific cases.

Security guards are hired by rich/famous/political people to stand guard and prevent bodily injury or other crimes from being perpetrated on them.  Companies hire security guards to protect the premises from criminal acts.  This is different than police who primarily respond to crimes.  Some police do patrol roads, etc., but this is designed to give them faster response time, not to allow them to "guard" the citizenry at large, which is entirely impractical.  Only in specific instances are police "posted" at a facility/event/home, typically when the risk of criminal act is extremely high or could be catastrophic (witness to a mafia murder, political speech, rare/expensive museum exhibit, etc.).

So, while I do not own a firearm, I am not opposed to someone else owning one for self defense, as police forces are not designed to protect the populace.  As for Europe remaining safe without firearms, I believe the crime rates are lower due to cultural differences... we have some issues here in the US regarding how we raise our children, at least in my opinion.  Also, the status in Europe may be changing... in the UK, where the police do not carry firearms, this has become a problem when dealing with Islamic terrorists.  It wasn't that long ago that a terrorist act in the UK was responded to with firearms... yes, firearms... the police there knew that the terrorists would likely be carrying firearms, so they were forced to respond in kind to be effective.  This threw the UK media into an uproar, but only a great fool comes to a gun fight carrying a knife.

Tha's too, but too sad... :(

I don't often say this, but im criying...

Please, for the love of God don't make this into yet another guns are good/guns are bad discussion. I know from experience that such discussions get nowhere in the end, especially when Americans are involved. You guys just look at things differently, and that's okay, you have you own laws, culture and moral standards over there, and I know a lot of people there own guns. Fine.

I don't, I'm sorry, and I don't know anyone who does or ever has, and I'm very happy with that, too. By your logic we should be overrun by murdering rapists because we don't own guns here, fact is we don't, and I can say I live in a much, much, MUCH safer country than the USA will ever be. And guess what, we're allowed to legally do drugs here, too, you can even buy those in legitimate shops, and we aren't even being overrun by violent drug addicts, either. Have YOU thought about what your country would be like had firearms never been legal for citizens? That a society could be civilized enough to live together without the need to actually kill each other? An interesting idea.

I could go on about how we never ever have any highschool shoot-outs, and extremely low crime/murder rates compared to the USA and whatnot, but I'll spare you that. Like I said, I'm not making this into another discussion, so I'll leave it at this.

Sounds like murder to me.. Sounds fishy.. Guns dont look like wi controller plus the triggers arnt easy to squeeze. Plus she just happend to be facing it towards her self. Oh and the mom was sleeping in the same room.. oh and oops I forgot it on the table loaded

Why am I not suprised it happened in the USA?

@freetalklive: the way you make it sound, i would never want to live in NH. the thought of almost everyone around owning a gun is a little unsettling to me. "safest and freest" or not. im cool with other people owning guns as long as they know what they are doing. but it think maybe we should enact a test or something that proves your smart enough to own a gun...just a thought.....

However, i would much rather live in the U.S. than any other country in the world regardless of the crime. what can i say, i like it here.

No, you aren't quite right about this. In the UK, the police don't carry firearms, quite right. But that's not always the case - armed response teams are trained and are used occassionally for situations such as terror threats. Day-to-day police don't get guns, but the police in every area have one trained armed response unit in case of emergencies. Also, the uproar in the UK over that situation wasn't that guns were used, it was that a 'terrorist' was shot dead by armed police in the tube, in London (the 'subway'), and it turned out that he was innocent.

I don't agree with guns, but both the UK and US are backwards in different ways. The UK's police should have guns, I think, and the US general population shouldn't.

No doubt. 

Sad, very sad.  What a horrible way for these idiot parents to learn a lesson...

Stupid father for leaving the gun out.

Stupid mother because she was in the room and let it happen.

Conspiracy theory time. I reckon the mother shot her!