Child advocate in Kentucky: "Making and marketing weapons specifically for children [is] 'mind-boggling.'
We're having a big national debate whether we want to check somebody's background, but we're going to offer a 4-year-old a gun and expect something good from that?"
by Travis Loller and Dylan Lovan, Associated Press / ABC News
BURKESVILLE, Ky. May 1, 2013 (AP)
In southern Kentucky, where children get their first guns even before they start first grade, Stephanie Sparks paid little attention as her 5-year-old son, Kristian, played with the rifle he was given last year. Then, as she stepped onto the front porch while cleaning the kitchen, "she heard the gun go off," a coroner said.
In a horrific accident Tuesday that shocked a rural area far removed from the national debate over gun control, the boy had killed his 2-year-old sister, Caroline, with a single shot to the chest.