10-year-old girl in her own home is hit by gunfire from neighboring apartment on Nazing Street in Roxbury

A wonderful world, where trained gun owners always secure their weapons safely, where LEOs never accidentally discharge their weapons or shoot innocent bystanders. Where there is even such a thing as a 100% safe way to handle a loaded gun. Such a lovely fantasy. I wish I lived there, too.

Unfortunately, gun permit holders are not the trustworthy users you think they are.

Since May 2007, concealed handgun permit holders have killed at least 189 individuals--including nine law enforcement officers--in 26 states.

Unfortunately, law officers do not always handle their weapons safely.

Accidental shootings by law enforcement have happened in recent years at agencies small and large and at all levels — city, county, state and federal — across the U.S., an Associated Press investigation found. They’ve caused hundreds of injuries to officers, suspects and bystanders, and sometimes they’ve caused deaths.

Unfortunately, even the people who give the training you put so much faith in sometimes shoot when they don't mean to.

LANCASTER, Ohio A firearms instructor accidentally shot a student while teaching a gun-safety class on Saturday in Fairfield County to people seeking permits to carry concealed weapons.

A gun safety instructor accidentally shot a pastor during a class on how to disarm a knife-wielding attacker.

You want to be safe from accidentally-fired guns? Take them away from as many people as possible. The damned things are dangerous, by design.