WHY ????

Here is a link to a news story:

Father shoots son in PA.


Why?  How did it happen?

Seems the man took two guns into a gun store to sell them.  When he came out to his truck, he put one in the back and began to enter the truck while holding the other gun.  He was going to put the gun in the console.  In the process he shoots his 7 year old son dead.

He was holding the gun as he entered the truck.  HOLDING THE GUN.

I will BET that the dumb-ass had his finger on the trigger.  Most of the people who come into my shop who examine guns have their fingers on the trigger.  

Apparently he took the magazine out of the gun but failed to check the chamber.  

Details are sketchy but......

IF the gun was shown to the clerk at the gun store, why wasn't it checked by the clerk to see if it was loaded before it was examined?  Why wasn't it double checked by the owner after he took the gun.  Why was a loaded gun pointed directly at the chest of a 7 year old boy?  How was the firing mechanism of the gun activated?

Why did that kid have to die?

ALWAYS    point the gun in a safe direction

ALWAYS    keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot

ALWAYS    keep the gun un-loaded until ready to use