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In what is now becoming a trend yet another person shot after attending gun show. This one died.

Courtesy of KTBC:

In what Cedar Park Police believe to be an unintentional shooting, a man shot and killed his father-in-law Saturday at a gun show in Cedar Park. When Cedar Park Police got to the scene Saturday around 5, they found 59-year-old John Glover Warden injured from a single gun shot wound.

Police say the man from Jarrell, Texas later died at St. David's in Round Rock. The department tells us the shooting happened in a car in the parking lot. Warden's son-in-law, Jared Priddy from Eulless was quote 'manipulating' the firearm after reloading it.

Of course this incident attracted the notice of some of those advocating for stricter gun control.

"If guns made you safer, no one would ever get shot accidentally. And that's exactly what happened here yesterday," said democratic consultant Jason Stanford.

Stanford says he supports expanded background checks and even background checks to enter a gun show.

"Some people say that guns don't kill people, the person pulling the trigger does. They can kill you a lot easier with a gun. And what we need is for gun owners to take it upon themselves to work with us to be safer on this. Because right now the status quo sure ain't working," he said.

However also included in this report were the views of gun store owner Michael Cargill who, as you might imagine, was of a different point of view:

"I know all the nay-sayers are gonna come out and they're gonna say 'I told you so.' This is not 'I told you so' this is not 'I gotcha.' This is no different than this little incident we saw a day or so ago where two kids were ejected from a vehicle because they weren't wearing a seat belt. We don't blame the vehicle for that incident so we're not gonna blame the guns for this incident," he said.

I would like to respectfully point out that there is quite a lot of difference between deaths caused by failure to use a seat belt in a motor vehicle and deaths caused by the mishandling of a firearm.

For one thing the car's sole purpose is to transport people from one place to another. While a gun's sole purpose is to take a life.

If a vehicle is used in the correct, and safe manner, it transports its occupants to where they are going in one piece.

However if a gun is used in the correct manner it either injures or takes the life of another human being. Ironically enough if it is used in an incorrect manner, the outcome is much the same.

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