Even good gun owners f*** up

 

Sad story.  You can take good care of your guns, you can keep them safe, you can keep them out of the hands of children, and you can be an expert, but ...

... bad things still happen with guns. 

Chicago firearms safety instructor, 61, accidentally shoots dead his wife, 60, while cleaning his gun and then turns the weapon on himself

Lesson 1:  Don't clean your guns when other people who might get hurt are in range.

Lesson 2:  Don't clean your guns in your house.

Lesson 3:  Don't have loaded guns in your house.

Seems simple, doesn't it?

"An Illinois firearms safety instructor took his own life after accidentally firing and killing his wife while cleaning his gun.

Simeon Hendrickson, 61, was cleaning one of his weapons in the Chicago suburb of Bollingbrook last Saturday afternoon.

He accidentally discharged the gun and hit his wife Laurie Hendrickson, 60. Police said Simeon Hendrickson then turned the handgun on himself, taking his own life."

Yes, a very sad story.

But preventable. As are a lot of the deaths that are due to guns in this country. 

PREVENTABLE.  If this country had common sense gun control.