Girl mistakes gun for Wii controller - kills herself

[Reasonable]

dahuman said:

Reasonable said:
Terrible story. As ever, though, what get's me is the bit about leaving loaded guns around. I hate to sound like the normal European fragging on US around gun control, but that's just so weird. Why would you ever be wandering around with a loaded gun then casually put it down?

I mean, I've occasionally left a pair of scissors around but a loaded gun? That's just inexcusable parenting as Montana says.

What's the percentage of actual intelligent people that you have met in total? Mine is extremely low. It's not about gun control, it's about how retarded people can get with controlling their guns, it's simple Spiderman shit.

Sure, but stupid people leaving a wooden spoon lying around tend to do less accidental harm than idiots who leave loaded guns around.  To be fair, I'm of the opinion that plenty of people with driving licences shouldn't have them because they're too unsafe to trust with a heavy hunk of metal and composite materials that can travel at speeds in excess of 100 MPH.