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Originally Posted by ArchAngel

I don't see the need to carry a gun whilst doing your shopping with your baby at all :/

It's crazy to us, but in some cultures it's second nature. I would personally not go out of doors without a gun if I lived in a lot of countries in the world, and as this occurred in America, I think the issue is not that she did carry a gun, but the manner in which she carried it.

As a lot already commented, if it had been holstered then this tragedy would probably never have happened.

I think that it's a double lesson to to all gun owning parents of young children really, that both guns and young children need handling with the utmost responsibility at all times. A gun bought for 'defensive' purposes becomes an offensive weapon in the wrong hands, and because young children are ignorant and unpredictable, theirs will always qualify as 'the wrong hands'.

Totally tragic, but totally avoidable.