Secure your weapons

[HighLander51]

[decepticon6551]

http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/riverside/riverside-headlines-index/20130210-eastvale-8-year-old-shoots-man-accidentally.ece

I use a GunVault when not in may safe

[omnitravis]

I dont leave my weapons unlocked around adults. People who do so around kids.... that is nucking futs.

[alfred1222]

Negligence, plain and simple

[decepticon6551]

Negligence, plain and simple

I'd like to know if the kid lives there, the article doesn't cover that.

[ExtremeX]

…and a $99 GunVault would have prevented all this…

[DVSmith]

Just stand by for a few minutes until the "I taught my kid better than to ever pick up a gun so I don't need a safe" contingent wanders by.

[RedFord150]

I invested in a Homak one gun safe for my nightstand drawer. Electronic lock been running on same batteries for 2 or 3 years.
The big safe holds the other guns, all unloaded.
Lot of piece of mind for very little $.

[NeenachGuy]

1. Always keep your guns locked up.
2. Never let an 8-year-old kid stay up past 9pm.

[Fate]

Obviously the man is a super zombie. Nothing survives a .45 to the head! Shoot him again!

[Apec]

Sheriff's investigators said 40-year-old Carlos Santillan Serafico was arrested for investigation of negligently maintaining a firearm accessible to a minor. It was unclear if the boy was related to Serafico.

The boy had discovered the loaded pistol in a dresser drawer in the upstairs master bedroom, Davis wrote.

To be fair though, quite a few folks keep their nightstand/home defense guns with one in the pipe and usually don't relocate them to the safe periodically. Well, he's still negligent, convenience comes at a cost.

Nevertheless this kid was not properly educated in gun safety and ended up hurting someone and getting someone else to take the fall.

Well, at least it's not like that case of the LAPD officer who was paralyzed by his own son shooting him in the back with his duty Glock.

[AragornElessar86]

So it's all the owner's fault and not at all the kid's fault? Seems to me the kid was the one behind the trigger, and 8 is by far old enough to know better. If that was my kid he'd get an old-fashioned belting for pulling a stunt like that.

[chozenfew805]

[candrews0480]

Nevertheless this kid was not properly educated in gun safety and ended up hurting someone and getting someone else to take the fall.

I can't agree with you more. I do always keep my guns locked up but I have also taken a good amount of time to teach my kids proper gun safety. The two have to go hand in hand! I have to know that if my kids are ever at a friends home and they ever come across a firearm that they know not to play with it. I have also taught them that it's very important to tell an adult if they find or see a firearm. I can't lock up everyone else's guns but I can teach my children to respect them. It was the same way I was brought up.

[SilverTauron]

Leave your guns out, and put your kids in a locked safe.