I don't think a toddler would have enough strength to pull the trigger on a revolver.
IMO, carrying a loaded gun into the Walmart there, with her child in the cart, was a combination of rhetoric-fueled paranoia and a political statement. Crimes rates in Hayden, ID:
- The estimated Hayden crime index is 9% lower than the Idaho average and and the Idaho crime index is 32% lower than the National average.
- The estimated Hayden violent crime rate is 14% lower than the Idaho average and and the Idaho violent crime rate is 41% lower than the National average.
- The estimated Hayden property crime rate is 9% lower than the Idaho average and and the Idaho property crime rate is 31% lower than the National average. http://www.areavibes.com/hayden-id/crime/
Crimes rates in Blackfoot, where she is from:
- The Blackfoot crime index is 91% higher than the Idaho average and and the Idaho crime index is 32% lower than the National average.
- The Blackfoot violent crime rate is 10% lower than the Idaho average and and the Idaho violent crime rate is 41% lower than the National average.
- The Blackfoot property crime rate is 103% higher than the Idaho average and and the Idaho property crime rate is 31% lower than the National average. http://www.areavibes.com/blackfoot-id/crime/
She had the gun with her, ironically, for "protection".
Do you honestly believe "telling" a two year old not to touch a gun is gun safety? He's two. He doesn't know what the heck is going on. He's pure impulse, energy and curiosity. There is zero frontal lobe development in his brain that would enable him to process and understand such instruction.
Cars are actually not built for killing though. Guns are.
I own guns. I'm not into banning them. But regulation is simply logical and necessary. Also, we really need to do something about our culture's emphasis on guns. It's ridiculous. This bright nuclear researcher was so intent on bringing a loaded gun into a department store full of people, within easy reach of her baby, in an area relatively devoid of crime (
compared with my town, a town in which I never have felt the need to carry a loaded gun while shopping: The chance of being a victim of a violent crime in Anaheim is 1 in 306. http://www.areavibes.com/anaheim-ca/crime/. The chance of being a victim of a violent crime in Hayden is 1 in 541. http://www.areavibes.com/hayden-id/crime/), that she threw all logic, all concern for others, all common sense, right out the damn door.
I'm horrified by this and very sorry she is dead and that her baby is now motherless. I'm also livid at her, that she would put herself, her small child and innocent shoppers at risk in this manner. It's insanity.