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Oh my God!..........
When are you supposed to teach responsibility.........I am under the strong impression that you should teach right from wrong as soon and maybe more so before your child can talk...let me Para-phrase



This is truly sad and I agree that the loss of his child is punishment enough. I have a young son and like many other boys his age he is intrigued by firearms and loves to go shooting. I put him through safety training as soon as he was old enough to understand and we talk about the responsibility that goes along with that. I've taught him how to disassemble, clean and re-assemble every firearm that he shoots. And just like school we have pop quizzes when were just hanging out. I'll say, "Firearms safety pop quiz"! Then we will go through the motions....When first handed the weapon, Never put your booger picker on the trigger until you are ready to fire, point it in a safe direction (down range, away from people) Then check the loaded condition (I have him check three times to be sure!), and when he is finished with the weapon he lays it down barrel facing down range, unloaded, or hands it back pointed in a safe direction with the slide or bolt open again unloaded.
I try to hammer this in his brain, and even though he always does excellent on his pop quizzes, I still do them to this day. I know that he has respect for them and fully understands how dangerous they can be in unsafe hands, and although I trust him, I do not make them easily accessible or leave him unsupervised. He is eleven now and I don’t know how I could go on without him. I feel awful and it's not even my child.