Placing the Blame

"We hugged him," Dix said. "We told him we knew it wasn't done on purpose." [More]

Maybe not, but that's still no reason to take it out on the rest of us.

Per something I wrote back way back when:

A loaded chamber indicator on a Beretta 92 Compact L did not stop 14-year-old Michael Soe from feloniously killing 15-year-old Kenzo Dix during a practical joke. The fact is, Soe's father left a loaded gun where an untrained, impulsive and judgmentally-challenged adolescent could find it. In their lawsuit, backed by CPHV, Dix's parents maintained, among other charges, that the chamber indicator was inadequate because the gun was not inscribed with a warning as well. Presumably, were Beretta to do so, they would still be deemed negligent for not including such warnings in Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese and Tagalog.

I suppose we should be grateful that a couple positive examples of gun ownership were also included. I understand that's quite unprecedented for the Contra Costa Times.

[Via Dave Licht]