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It's my personal opinion that in cases like these there's a lot more to the story than anyone's being told. No one has been able to ever explain to my satisfaction how a person goes about cleaning a gun that is loaded. The only scenario I can conjure is one where the father is just scrubbing the rust off of the outside of the gun, with it fully assembled, and then broke three (or four) of the four rules of safety all at the same time.

My conclusion is that the father is either far too stupid to be alone unsupervised or something malicious happened and his defense was "I was just cleaning it and it went off..." which, I understand, is a pretty common story to tell the authorities when you did something dumb with a gun and no witnesses exist to speak otherwise.


Either way the tragic thing is that his kid is dead through (seemingly) no fault of his own and the father is still above ground and either as dumb or evil as he was yesterday.