A Washington man has been arrested for killing his daughter. He claims it was an accident while cleaning his gun and I am forced to scream “Bullshit!”
MARYSVILLE, Wash. – A father arrested after his 6-year-old daughter was fatally shot in their Washington state home allegedly told authorities he had been drinking double shots of vodka while cleaning his guns.
Court papers say Richard Peters told detectives he had asked his daughter, Stormy, to bring him the .45-caliber handgun Sunday. He said he must have pulled the trigger, and the girl fell to the floor. She was pronounced dead Monday.
Bail for Peters, 42, was set Monday at $250,000. He has been arrested for investigation of first-degree manslaughter.
Already gun control advocates are up in arms about this. They are screaming to anyone who will listen that this is why we need to outlaw guns. To them again I scream “Bullshit!”
This was neither an accident nor is it a reason to start making new gun control laws. First off this was a many drinking double vodkas when he should have been paying attention to his kids. Secondly this is a man who let his kids handle loaded weapons. Third he was simply too drunk to remember what happened, since his wife was in the room and clueless the same could probably be said about her.
This was not an accident. First off guns and booze never mix. Secondly accident deaths occur when you are doing things such as carrying your kid and trip down the stairs, or accidental injuries happen by sticking a flailing baby with a diaper pin. This was incompetence and negligence, no new gun control laws are needed to address that. Even if you did slap together new gun control laws, they would never stop bad parents from being bad parents anymore than they stop criminals from being criminals.
For all of you so called do-gooders, who think you are so damned smart, don’t cry out for gun control laws to fix problems they can’t. Instead cry out for someone to put the remaining kids in the custody of someone who will be decent parents to them.
