We taught our kids as preschoolers to never pick up anything unknown found on the ground, because you don't know what it contains or has been used for or if it has jagged metal or glass edges that could cut or burn somebody handling it. At the time, there were mailboxes getting blown up in our suburban neighborhood, and the perps were using soda bottles and other things to make pipe bombs to blow up mailboxes. Neighborhood kids would occasionally find remnants of a small pipe bomb and all parents warned any kids in sight not to touch anything they found. The kids were also taught these precautions in preschool public safety classes taught by law enforcement, and also in grade school in safety presentations/classes.
Also, they understood at an early age not to grab something that could have been used in a crime, putting their fingerprints on it or muddling up the fingerprints of a criminal who needs to be caught and prosecuted.
The claim of "too many guns" sounds like a purely ideological thing, against the 2nd amendment and for an unarmed populace.
The incident described sounds like: "A drunk on a golf cart nearly hit and killed himself and us last night. There are too many golf carts in TV."
It just does not compute.
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