Child Gunshot Wounds Most Likely in Homes With Firearms, US Study

Child Gunshot Wounds Most Likely in Homes With Firearms, US Study
Even among rural Americans, parental attitudes run heterogenous on the topic of gun safety and children: Locked or unlocked, loaded or unloaded, and just how close should kids be to firearms? Whereas some parents in multiple-gun households teach firearm safety to toddlers, others forbid their children from playing with toy guns, or even pointing an index finger to mimic one. Christi Parenteau Martin, a 36-year-old mother of four from Cabot, Vt., says she supports… [Medical Daily (New York), Video, via GunPolicy.org]

More Gun Charges Added to Indictment Against South African Star Athlete
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Prosecutors accusing Oscar Pistorius of premeditated murder will add two more charges believed to relate to firing guns in public to the indictment against him, apparently to show another side to the inspiring double-amputee Olympian: Reckless and trigger-happy. Pistorius now faces charges of murder, illegal possession of ammunition and two other counts of breaking South Africa’s firearms laws in his trial in March. Pistorius’ lawyers… [Washington Post / Associated Press, via GunPolicy.org]