This is the "tragic accidents" narrative that now allows few people to be punished when people die by gun. I remember when even parents were brought up on charges, in fact all gun deaths were investigated above the cop on the street. Usually parents who were found guilty got fines, seldem jail time. But using the greiving parent image helped open up more and more it was an accident and no charges brought cases.

Per the vid at the bottom. I remember when I was about 4 or 5 maybe 6. For some reason I looked under my dads mattress and there was his handgun. Don't know why it didn't go off. Just lucky I guess. Could have ended a lot different.