A Rock Hill, SC, teenager shot himself in a room full of other teenagers.
The story says he thought the gun was unloaded. Rule 1 violation, right there. He obviously pointed it at himself, or he wouldn't be dead. Rule 2 violation, right there.
Some lucky children get taught the rules of safe gun handling by conscientious parents, and never have a problem (some few will, of course, children still being children). Other children are never taught the rules to begin with, and so view guns as no different than toys.
Jeff Cooper, as I've said before, never anticipated this when he was forming his rules of gun safety, or he would have added another: A gun is not a toy. Don't play with it.
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Re: additional rules, it won't work. Never underestimate the ingenuity of a determined fool.
@Rev. Paul: I don't know that I agree with you. In a roomful of teenagers, peer pressure is strong, it is true, but not all teenagers comply with it, or all the kids in a high school would smoke cigarettes and marijuana. It would only have taken one of the kids to say Don't play with it! and disaster might have been averted.
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