gun culture is in full view here with a statement from the defense attorney:

He actually said that. To Second Amendment absolutists, responsibility for their lethal weapons is not required by the Second Amendment, and therefore carelessness and neglect are protected "rights."

This asshat and all NRA/ILA/GOA apologists are essentially saying that a 2-year old child has no business wandering into a strange bedroom and picking up a dangerous shiny thing. It is obviously the child's fault for this tragic "accident." The "responsible" gun owner had absolutely no obligation to secure a deadly weapon inside his/her own home because Freedom and Liberty.

The term "responsible gun owner" is an oxymoron for a large percentage of the purported 80,000,000 armed citizens of this country. Like all other consumer products, guns need to be regulated for the safety and benefit of ALL Americans, and until that happens children will continue to be victims of irresponsible and idiotic absolutists.

it should be against the law to be stupid and have a gun... but since we can't even weed out the mentally ill, I don't know how we'll eliminate the stupid.

I commend the grand jury and the District Attorney. When people have to do time, pay stiff fines, have probation, etc., maybe we'll have fewer of these tragic avoidable 'accidents'.

It's because most guns have trigger pull pressure of 7 pounds or more. Little children don't have the strength in their first finger to pull the trigger so they turn the gun around and use their thumbs. The ergonomics of handguns are such that small children will turn the gun on themselves so they can get their thumbs on the trigger.

Trigger locks and unloaded. As a gun owner I see no reason for a round in the chamber until needed.

They also prevent those gun owners from using those things in "self-defense" since the gun won't fire. Won't fire.

To the bedroom to get it, he has time to unlock it.