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The father, who says, "They twisted everything around," now faces a felony child endangerment charge. He admits leaving the gun was a mistake but also says the incident is a misunderstanding.

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“People having guns in their home and not putting them up, and not having them locked in a safe place … kids can play with them just thinking they're a simple toy,” the girl's mother said at the event. “They could be in the same situation as I am with my daughter.”

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One Iowa father is speaking out against a state gun law after he and his daughter were asked to leave a gun range this past weekend because his daughter was too young to use a handgun.

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Billboards being posted on city buses by the group Washington Ceasefire are asking residents to “just ask” about gun ownership among friends and neighbors, but the ads aren’t sitting well with everyone in the state.

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A 10-year-old boy from Columbus, Ohio was suspended for three days following an incident last week which school officials described as the boy using a “level 2 lookalike firearm” pointed at another kid’s head “execution style.”

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Opinions on the issue are rightly divided, with some saying that the combination is lethal, while others say that introducing children to guns at a young age may help to decrease the chance of accidents later.

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According to the National Institute of Health, “The increase of gangs, teenage homicide, teenage suicide, teenage pregnancy, school drop-out, and other problems are a reflection of a rapidly changing society and family structure.”

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It wasn’t until sometime later, after she had awakened, that she discovered the child's body. Initially she couldn’t find him but eventually found him in the living room with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

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