Dad shoot son over video game!

[Final-Fan]

Gnizmo said:
No way someone drunk enough to use lethal force on their own child could aim well enough to hit the broad side of the barn. It was horrific luck on the part of everyone involved that he hit anything with a gun, let alone a lethal shot.

Your scenarios are not all encompassing, nor do they account for more than a few other scenarios. Dad positions himself between door and kid so he can get his vengeance before the kid bolts. Even a drunk can work this one out.

Really though this is the kind of conversation I was hoping to avoid. At least it is somewhat more relevant to the point I am making I suppose.

I guess I failed to consider that this might have happened in a one-door room.  A two-door room would not have that problem.  Although, unless it was a tiny room, a knife-wielder would have to leave the doorway to get at the kid. 

But really, my problem wasn't with your taking issue with people saying this was evidence to ban guns so much as it was with your claim that any number of other weapons would be just as deadly in this sort of situation.  It's not true.