How does a 12 year old child have possession of a gun? This is unacceptable and absolutely preventable.

Children should not be playing with guns!

Very tragic and should not have happened. So glad the young boy isn’t in a life threatening condition, it could have been so much worse.

Guns are supposed to be locked in a gun safe and only the owner of the gun/s have access to that safe. So many questions, why did the boys have had access to a loaded gun! Being x-farmers we always ensured our guns were not loaded, locked away, and separate from ammunition, and most importantly – our children never had access to any of them.

Good to hear he’s stable and not in life threatening condition !
But how a 12 year old and his friend get to play with a 22 riffle ?

Glad he is ok, what a terrible accident

don’t let your child and his friend handle these things and be a responsible owner and parent. The parent should have his license taken away now because this is careless behavious

That’s why we have gun laws- how did kids get a hold of the gun in the first place and why wasn’t the safety on? Why was it loaded? It’s lucky that the kid wasn’t killed.

Glad to hear he is in a stable condition,wishing him a full recovery.

I’m glad the situation wasn’t more tragic.

These accidents make me quite sad – so tragic and guns really do need to be away from children.

Indeed. If you own a gun, keep it safe away from kids!!

If people are going to have guns on their properties they need to make sure that they are locked away AND that any children are educated properly about them

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  • • cherz replied
    • 28 Sep 2017 , 8:46 pm

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  Well said and I agree.