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OneSkinnyMass
09-19-2012, 01:50 AM
Sad beginning and ending for this family.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/18/linkin-leatham-miracle-baby-dies-shooting-father-gun_n_1893741.html?ncid=webmail9

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mac60
09-19-2012, 06:09 AM
The huffingtonpuffingtonpost - I wouldn't waste a millisecond of my time reading ANYTHING they published!
Echo
09-19-2012, 12:44 PM
I have a pal who publishes regularly on the Huffington post. He is a reasonable liberal, and I read, and appreciate, his postings.
punkinlobber
09-19-2012, 12:49 PM
My prayers go to out the family.
GREENCOUNTYPETE
09-19-2012, 03:14 PM
what will be extra sad and almost pointless is when they charge his father with his murder , almost every state has a law making the leaving of guns available to minors a crime , and death in the commition of a crime is usually murder.
shooter93
09-19-2012, 06:16 PM
No doubt it's a terrible terrible thing to have happened.....but an unattended todler with access to a loaded gun???????????????
41 mag fan
09-19-2012, 06:27 PM
Punishment will come the rest of their lives on what happened to their son.
if that'd been me, they'd be burying me the next week, i couldn't live let alone forgive myself for a tragedy happening like that
captain-03
09-19-2012, 08:42 PM
Punishment will come the rest of their lives on what happened to their son.
if that'd been me, they'd be burying me the next week, i couldn't live let alone forgive myself for a tragedy happening like that

This ^^^^^^^^
Recluse
09-20-2012, 03:22 AM
It's not a sad story.

It's an infuriating story.

Owen Leatham was a police officer, for crying out loud. Police officers see these kinds of senseless tragedies all too often, and literally read about them every day or week in their briefings.

More fodder for the Brady wingnuts, although it will be hard to explain why only "cops" should have guns since they are the most "responsible" and "trained."

Stories like this drive me absolutely insane.

:coffee:
toooldtocare
09-20-2012, 03:59 PM
Sad? No, Im not sad. Im pissed. Gun owners should know better.
bowfin
09-20-2012, 04:50 PM
if that'd been me, they'd be burying me the next week

That's not an option. In fact, that would be adding to the everybody else's grief. Your son dying is an unintentional tragedy. Killing yourself to escape your pain just transfers it to others.

Certainly a heavy cross to bear, but we shouldn't try to bear the weight by ourselves.