It is very sad this happened. However, it was preventable by following basic rules of gun safety. If you're shooting with friends that aren't following safe shooting practices, you need to say something about it. Things like this shouldn't happen, and now there is a family missing its father.
After coming very close to being shot in the back of the head with a .22lr rifle that belonged to a friend of my then teenaged son, I don't/rarely shoot with people that I haven't checked out their gun handling before. In fact, during a recent visit with family from Ark, I was shocked to see that my SIL (I've shot with him 20yrs ago) hadn't schooled my grandkids in strict gun safety... I had to keep reminding the teen grandson not to pick up and point the (supposedly empty with no mag in it) handgun back at us at the table when it was his turn to shoot, and also not to stand in front of the table (downrange) where we were handling firearms. I'll bet they thought I was a PITA but my SIL was very supportive of my safety education/training efforts. BTW, the 11yr old granddaughter was much more careful than the teen boy. I think he's been playing too much warrior games on Xbox and having Airsoft wars with his dad. He really needs to know the diff in care required.
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