it's parents being irresponsible, and statistically speaking, it's a minute amount of parents not exercising safe storage.

Now, what's your comments on this thread?

We obviously need a way to filter out idiots who want to buy guns. Require a rigorous course on gun safety, use and maintenance as a prerequisite for purchasing a gun, including a minimum number or rang-hours under the supervision of a licensed instructor.

...filter them out of the voting pool.
That might eliminate some of the more stupid laws.
An IQ test ought to be required of those running for office, too.

I'd like to see the details first, but it's a good idea.

This is why training kids to shoot and know the rules early is so important.

By 5 or 6 both my kids knew better than these kids...that's what you get when you keep something a mysterious secret

Sounds like the periodic posting of standard gun-control diatribe by the Herald et al.

"Four people were killed and at least 33 were wounded in shootings citywide from Friday evening through Monday morning, police said. The shootings this weekend bring the year's total to at least 1,789, according to an analysis of a Chicago Tribune database on city shootings. That's an increase of more than 200 over last year and more than 350 over 2013, according to Tribune data. The city has also seen more murders, according to a Tribune database on homicides: At least 294 were slaying victims through Monday morning this year, 41 more than last year and 24 more than 2013."

But ... that was just the weekend. From today's Tribune:

"Two men were shot to death in less than half an hour within eight blocks of each other on the West Side, and at least 11 other people were wounded in shootings in Chicago Monday through early Tuesday, police said."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-shooting-violence-20150817-story.html

Funny, no posts from the usual suspects demanding something or other.

Latest reports fail to mention if any of the shooters had FOID cards or Concealed Carry permits.

Now I just wait for the usual stupidity suggesting this is all because, well ... Indiana!

The title is correct. The NRA uses self-defense as the rational for blocking all regulations on gun ownership and use.

But you'd have to be a cave-dwelling hermit not to know that every solution to gun violence offered by the NRA is based on universal gun ownership in the name of SELF-DEFENSE. A gun in every home for SELF DEFENSE. A carry permit in every wallet for SELF DEFENSE.

You conveniently ignore the fact that the article on which we are commenting pointed out that it was a gun, kept in the home for SELF DEFENSE, that resulted in the death of a child. Please read my comment above regarding what we could do to keep guns out of the hands of ignorant people with no knowledge of basic gun safety.