Hat tip to TDA reader Zentient for bringing this story to our attention.
Considering our nation will absolutely mobilize over tainted spinach or potentially dangerous toys from China, one has to wonder why one of the biggest killers in our country barely rates mention in Yahoo News. The same press that will disseminate an amber alert to millions in minutes or host an hour long special on a missing girl does very little to raise awareness of the deadliest of killers in our midst, unless you count the funny commercials and almost constant glamorization of alcohol in its programs.
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… 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. ~ Yahoo News
So now we have another dead little girl, shot by her drunken father to add to the yearly thousands that die in alcohol attributable incidents. It wasn’t the loaded gun that was the problem, it was the loaded father. A wasted life, a broken family, and a tortured dad- and yet next week we’ll all be laughing at the funny Bud Light commercial.
