Under a Gibbous Moon

A fourteen year old boy was killed after the loaded .30-30 rifle that he kept on a peg in his bedroom (to shoot coyotes from his window) was knocked off, causing it to fire.

The family has decided that, instead of taking responsibility for negligence, they are going to sue everyone. They are suing the rifle manufacturer, claiming the safety was defective, Wal-Mart for selling the rifle, and the ambulance company for failing to save the boys life.

Hanging a loaded weapon by a shoulder strap on a peg in the wall is far and away not a safe way to store a firearm, particularly a loaded one. Allowing a fourteen year old to fire a rifle from his bedroom window strikes me as a lapse in judgement as well.

Firearms are weapons and need to treated with respect, not hanging from a peg on the wall. There are no such thing as accidental discharges, only negligent discharges.

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