Blame the gun
Not the people who left it where a three year old can get it:
WE WERE SHOCKED to learn how little pressure it takes to squeeze the trigger of a Glock .45. The gun’s firing mechanism is so light, even a 3-year-old can shoot it.
And accidentally kill himself.
Tylib Bailey-Henderson’s death this week is tragic and frustrating because it could have been so easily avoided.
A simple, properly attached gun-trigger lock, and Tylib would still be alive -smiling, laughing, playing.
Actually, he’d be alive if he didn’t have access to the gun. The Glock’s trigger pull is about 5.5 pounds. I think a 1911s is about 5. More:
Legislators in Congress and in Harrisburg have so far refused to require that when a gun is sold or transferred to a buyer, it would also have a trigger lock with it.
Really? The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms act requires handguns to be sold with trigger locks. See here. I don’t think the law has been funded, though.
October 19th, 2006 at 10:25 am
Of course, a person who was careless in leaving the gun out where a 3 year old could reach it would never be so careless as to forget to put a trigger-lock on it.
October 19th, 2006 at 10:42 am
I’ve bought a few guns in my time, and all the new ones come with trigger locks. I bet that Glock came with a trigger lock.
October 19th, 2006 at 10:51 am
No one ever mentions the fact that the instructions on trigger locks are specific about NOT PUTTING THEM ON LOADED WEAPONS. If the Glock had been unloaded – trigger lock or not – the child would not have died. Putting a trigger lock on a loaded Glock seems to me to be an invitation to a negligent discharge.
KEEP THE GUNS AWAY FROM THE KIDDIES. At least until they’re old enough to properly train. It’s the best solution.
October 19th, 2006 at 10:52 am
If those PA rethuglicans would pass Rendell’s 1 gun a month handgun purchase limit, this senseless tragedy never would have happened.
October 20th, 2006 at 9:01 am
All Glock’s come with a cable lock that is to be threaded through the action of the pistol for safe storage.
Wonder why the author left that detail out of the article…
October 20th, 2006 at 11:58 am
Because cable locks don’t magically place themselves on unused guns, but trigger locks do.
October 20th, 2006 at 2:39 pm
Every weapon I’ve ever bought in PA (five) has come with a locking device. One Beretta, one walther, one AR-15, one AR180B, and one HK. So I’m not sure what the article is talking about.
Anyway, I have them in a box somewhere.