• One or more parents in denial that there’s anything wrong with their kids and/or the idea they need to take gun storage seriously? That’s the first thing that comes to mind, and it’s not uncommon in the US. Especially when you consider that a lot of gun rhetoric revolves around self defense in an emergency/home invasion, not having at least one gun readily available defeats the main purpose in their minds.

    edit: meant to respond to django@discuss.tchncs.de

    • As a European I am astonished, that the article never mentions, or even questions, why this child had access to a loaded firearm.

      The chatbot might be a horrible mess and shouldn’t be accessible by children, but a gun should be even less accessible to a child.