What a Preventable Gun death looks like....

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Originally Posted by stuff.co.nz The wife of former Eagles band member, bassist Randy Meisner, was killed when a rifle she was handling accidentally discharged and shot her in the head, Los Angeles police say. Police said on Monday officers found 63-year-old Lana Rae Meisner dead on Sunday from a single gunshot wound at the couple's home in the San Fernando Valley. Investigators say Lana Rae Meisner lifted the rifle from a storage case when another item inside shifted and hit the trigger, causing the gun to fire.

This needless death could have been prevented so easily....

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"As she lifted the rifle in the case, another item within the case shifted and hit the trigger of the rifle causing it to fire and fatally injure Mrs Meisner," the LAPD said in a statement.

Gun should not have been loaded in the case!

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Officials say police had responded to the home earlier Sunday and took a domestic violence incident report. Lana Rae had called 911 to report domestic violence, claiming Randy was waiving a BB gun and "acting erratically". One and a half hours later, Randy phoned the police to say he heard a gun shot after his wife went into another room and closed the door.

This call and his behaviour should have been enough to have temporarily removed any guns from the home.

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In 2015, Randy was placed under court-ordered 24-hour supervision after he allegedly threatened murder-suicide with an AK-47 and pills.

Which should have been enough to have had any guns removed from him for longer than a year at the least.

This is where gun control and the ability of the police to remove weapons from those that are seemingly a threat to themselves or others would have saved a life. Now yes, in this case it wasn't murder or suicide according to the police...

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"There was an accidental discharge of the firearm," LAPD spokesman Gus Barrientos told the New York Post. "It was completely accidental, there is nothing indicative of a murder, homicide or a suicide ... It's a weird accident, that's all I can say."

... but had the guns been removed because of the owner's behaviour, the death would never have occurred. Heck even if they had just be stored unloaded and the ammo separately, this never would have happened.

Too many tragic incidents like this, but still people say it's the price of freedom right, that's the pretty high price if you ask me.

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