UPDATE 5-15-21: This is the post that disappeared yesterday afternoon that prompted my subsequent WTF?? post. It is mysteriously back in my post list.
On January 31, 2018, 15 year old Ethan Song of Guilford, Kommiecticut accidentally negligently blew his brains out with a .357 Magnum handgun belonging to his friend's father.
Because of this incident, useless and idiotic laws were passed in Kommiecticut regarding storage and accessibility of firearms. Critically thinking people know that laws like these can never prevent such a future tragedy from occurring, because they will just simply become something a real moron (like say the drug dealer or gang-banger that keeps the loaded gun under the couch cushion for his baby mama's kids to find) gets charged with AFTER the tragic shooting of another kid. The real hope and intent is to frighten legitimate gun owners from keeping a firearm handy for self-defense, or providing one to their responsible children. There are thousands of stories out there of minor children defending themselves or their family with a firearm from all over the country. Laws don't deter me one little bit, but then I am a proponent of every kind of non-compliance. This is the type of intolerable/unconstitutional act the gun-grabbing hoplophobes that populate this state want to take nationwide. Watch for it to come out of the Commie lead U.S congress to be signed by Gropey Joe, or your own state legislative body.
Link to article in the New Haven Register that is about the investigation from November 20, 2018
Ethan Song is dead. Do you know why? Lots of stupidity. First and foremost:
1). His parents never taught him to mind your own fucking business and leave other peoples private property alone. He went into a closet in a master bedroom in someone else's home and opened a closed container not belonging to him or his equally stupid friend. They supposedly did this many times... until the last time.
2). They also obviously never taught him one item of gun safety. EVERY CHILD SHOULD LEARN BASIC GUN SAFETY!! Depending on the age and maturity it should at least be Eddie Eagle's "STOP-RUN AWAY-TELL AN ADULT"
3). Ethan did not possess the critical thinking skills that might lead a normal person to conclude that loading a firearm and fucking around with it WILL have bad/deadly consequences.
We can debate the wisdom of the storage methods of the gun owner, Daniel Markle all day long. Bottom line, his guns were locked, the keys were "hidden" (although not very well) and HE WAS LEGAL! Since he was legal, he was not charged in Ethan's death. I personally keep certain defensive ammo with my secured (in a safe) firearms in a locked and hardened (as well as alarmed and monitored) closet. After at least 2 hours work to force their way into the alarmed closet, an unauthorized person would now be staring at a pair of safes and if they entered my house when I wasn't there, hearing the alarm siren blaring as state police are automatically notified. That is provided they somehow didn't set off the alarm just entering the house. The only loaded and ready gun(s) is on my person or next to my head on the nightstand while I sleep. I actually sleep in Col. Cooper's "Condition Yellow."
So apparently in effort to get the anti-gun ass clowns temporarily controlling our federal government to move forward on this and all other infringements they can dream up, some douchebag made a movie about this story. I heard about it on the late news last night, but could not find any mentions of it online. Not that I would ever link to such a piece of shit anyway, you can try to find it on your own.