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BTW, I left a comment on that article:

Dear ABC News, OHIO NAS NO GUN REGISTRATION. Get yer facts straight, and then maybe I’ll believe your reporting on the rest of the story. This is a rubric that the Democrat Steno Pool (AKA “the media”) continuously repeats, but it has no basis in fact, and is purely a leftwing fantasy of that same media.

https://gun.laws.com/state-gun-laws/ohio-gun-law

Ohio gun laws are relatively nonrestrictive. For instance, an individual does not require a permit to buy a shotgun, rifle, or handgun. Ohio gun laws do not require an individual to register his/her firearms.

This was an EASILY verifiable fact, but you falsely reported the opposite to be the case. Why then should anyone believe anything else you’ve reported about this tragic story beyond the very basic fact that a mother tragically and negligently shot her 2 year old to death, with the codicil that you’ll report additional FACTS as they become available?

My comment wasn’t in the moderator queue more than 30 seconds before being deleted instead of posted.

They don’t want to know the truth! They can HANDLE the truth!!!

What a terrible loss. One thing.... I absolutely refuse to believe any Democrat Steno Pool (AKA “the media”) initial reporting on what happened. They are sure to use it to keep beating the drum against “allowing” civilians to carry firearms......right up until the FACTS turn out to no longer be convenient, and then they’ll drop the story like a hot potato. And we won’t know all of the facts for a little while yet. For instance, the article states:

“Police said the gun was legally registered....”

But, per https://gun.laws.com/state-gun-laws/ohio-gun-lawl:

Ohio gun laws are relatively nonrestrictive. For instance, an individual does not require a permit to buy a shotgun, rifle, or handgun. Ohio gun laws do not require an individual to register his/her firearms.

Last I checked, Cleveland is still in Ohio. Ergo, ABC News is woofin’ out its ......uh......ABC News ain’t tellin’ the truth about an easily verifiable fact. So why should I believe anything else they say about as yet un-verified facts of the case?

But one thing strikes immediately strikes me..... there are guns that are perfect for neophytes right out of the box, and guns that require a little more expertise to operate safely. The first category would include nearly any revolver, and all Glocks, M&Ps (without manual safety), and XD/XDM/XDS pistols. The latter group would include 1911s, and any other pistol designed to be carried cocked and locked with a manual thumb safety. In today’s litigious world, most or all of them are designed to be drop-safe, but there are still plenty of pistols in circulation out there that are not necessarily drop-safe, which are still perfectly good pistols. 1911-A1s come to mind. Occasionally, a gun falling into the first category will turn out to not be drop-safe, and the factory will then take steps to remediate that problem - the Sig P320 being a most recent example.

Even so, even assuming that the gun was an un-repaired P320 that was only dropped from 3’, what in hades was she doing manipulating that gun anywhere near her 2 year old girl? I’d like to think that I am not heartless, and maybe I’m just plain wrong, but it seems to me that there must have been some violation of the 4 basic rules of gun safety here.