Is this a responsible gun owner?

 

Gun advocates say that guns kept in the house or carried on their person are for self-defense;  protection against random burglars and house invaders.  (Or armed insurrectionists, if you don't like them.)

And then something like this happens.  Is it worth it?

North Carolina toddler, 2, accidentally shot and killed himself after finding his father's loaded gun in his pickup truck

"Prosecutors say the young boy had climbed into his dad's pickup truck through an open door, where he found the loaded Smith & Wesson .40-caliber handgun in the front seat. He then started to play with the weapon, and accidentally shot himself in the head."

I'm totally confident that his father did not want this to happen.

But it did.

Guns kill innocent people.