There really needs to be more public education on the dangers of toddlers.

Guns don't kill people, toddlers do!

I guess the toddler wasn't top of his class, or as educated as his mom was on guns.

So-called "inside story"

This is pretty much the same info reported elsewhere.

 

This is pretty much the same info reported elsewhere.

ah, ok. I hadn't seen the "special" purse part.

 

Well I don't know about that, seems she just screwed up.

I refuse to accept that "she just screwed up" excuse.   Would you have ever left a pill bottle filled with drugs next to your 2 year old and turned your back?  I don't see much difference in the obliviousness of that and a purse with a loaded pistol in it.  Her father said he was upset that gun control advocates are using his daughter as an excuse to grandstand on gun rights;

“They are painting Veronica as irresponsible, and that is not the case...”

It's not hard to see where she got her obliviousness from.  How this man could think his daughter was not irresponsible for putting an unsecured loaded pistol within arms reach of an unsupervised 2 year old is a testament to that.

When my kids were toddlers I was afraid of them falling out of the shopping cart so either had a hand on them, or ready to grab either just in case. Not watching them for a moment wasn't an option.