Tell Granny her 4-year-old granddaughter would argue that point. Granny had the gun out for some reason. Maybe she wasn’t aware of the neighbor’s view of life in that neighborhood.

According to police, the shooting happened in a home near Birchwood Drive and Monroe. A woman was at the home, babysitting four children – all between four and six years of age – in the front room of the house where there was a loaded handgun.
“It sounds like the gun was left on some type of chair,” said Sgt. Marissa Barnes of the Kansas City Missouri Police Department. “It’s not exactly known what went down. The adult that was in the house, left the room, heard the shot, came back in and the child was injured.”

Probably for self-protection.

Ladder Safety
by Nick Gromicko, Rob London and Kenton Shepard

A ladder is a structure designed for climbing that consists of two long side-pieces joined at uniform intervals by rungs or steps. It’s important to use the right tool for the job, and that includes ladders, which come in different types and sizes for different applications. It’s also important to exercise extreme caution while using a ladder, as a fall from a ladder can lead to serious injury and even death.
Telescoping ladder
Some common causes of ladder injuries include:

mounting or dismounting the ladder impropertly;

losing one’s balance;
failing to set up the ladder properly;
over-reaching while on the ladder; and
mis-stepping while climbing or descending.

Statistics Concerning Ladder Dangers

According to the World Health Organization, the United States leads the world in ladder deaths. Each year, there are more than 164,000 emergency room-treated injuries and 300 deaths in the U.S. that are caused by falls from ladders.
Most ladder deaths are from falls of 10 feet or less.
Falls from ladders are the leading cause of deaths on construction sites.

Over the past decade, the number of people who have died from falls from ladders has tripled.
Falls from ladders are the leading cause of ladder-related injuries, followed by using a ladder improperly, using a faulty or defective ladder, and simple carelessness.

From Ladder Safety – Int’l Association of Certified Home Inspectors (InterNACHI) http://www.nachi.org/ladder-safety.htm#ixzz2I5PSKUTZ

Probably for climbing.

Those wacky anti gun control sites are hysterical drama queens.Unfortunately the U.S. does not “lead the world in deaths from falls ladder or otherwise ~~ ” Globally, falls are a major public health problem. An estimated 424 000 fatal falls occur each year, making it the second leading cause of unintentional injury death, after road traffic injuries. Over 80% of fall-related fatalities occur in low- and middle-income countries, with regions of the Western Pacific and South East Asia accounting for more than two thirds of these deaths ”
More from WHO ~
“WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data:
Violence prevention: the evidence.
(Series of briefings on violence prevention: the evidence)
Contents: Overview. – 1.Increasing safe, stable and nurturing relationships between children and
their parents and caregivers – 2.Developing life skills in children and adolescents – 3.Reducing
availability and harmful use of alcohol – 4.Reducing access to guns, knives and pesticides –
5.Promoting gender equality – 6.Changing cultural norms that support violence – 7.Victim identification,
care and support.” From a actual PDF

http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/4th_milestones_meeting/evidence_briefings_all.pdf

A multifaceted approach to easing violence.

I have no problem leaving my kids in room with a gun now that they have been thru this program.

http://eddieeagle.nra.org/

sagefever said
More from WHO ~
“WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data:
Violence prevention: the evidence.
(Series of briefings on violence prevention: the evidence)
Contents: Overview. – 1.Increasing safe, stable and nurturing relationships between children and
their parents and caregivers – 2.Developing life skills in children and adolescents – 3.Reducing
availability and harmful use of alcohol – 4.Reducing access to guns, knives and pesticides –
5.Promoting gender equality – 6.Changing cultural norms that support violence – 7.Victim identification,
care and support.” From a actual PDF

http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/4th_milestones_meeting/evidence_briefings_all.pdf

A multifaceted approach to easing violence.

With that being said, let me ask you this. Do you think the welfare lifestyle fosters the type of behavior WHO claims to help curb violence?
From my perspective, it doesn’t, but completes the opposite, fostering violent behavior, stemming from the worst behavior it fosters, which is irresponsibility.