That is why it is an accident. Sad story all around.

It might have been the driver's. it does seem to be his car. I can't imagine any charges coming from this.

What I really wish was that we would learn from our mistakes as a society. That would help a great deal to end these tragedies from happening again.

I guess Colorado has never experienced a school shooting. (I would insert one of those dripping sarcasm thingies here if I had the skills)

It's not like he was walking around the school with it, and this wasn't a "school shooting." Maybe you need to implement a policy that every school in CO has somebody go around to every student's car every day and inspect them for guns. Good luck with that.

Firearms don't "accidentally discharge".

Someone accidentally discharged the firearm.

Guns are inanimate objects. They don't do anything of their own accord.

When someone mishandles a firearm - either through recklessness, lack of training, or whatever - they may fire the gun without meaning to but the gun doesn't just "go off".

I don't think you and I are actually in disagreement here. I just find it annoying when I hear someone say something like "I was just cleaning my gun and it went off" or "he was showing it to a friend and it went off". It smacks of trying to avoid blame by making sound like the firearm malfunctioned somehow. As if the gun took action on its own. In virtually every case there was no malfunction - it was misuse.