Because we need feel-good stories:
https://us.yahoo.com/news/9-old-hunting-father-accidentally-162440221.html9-year-old hunting with father accidentally shoots, kills himself
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Gunnar Holte was pheasant hunting with his father around Branched Oak Lake in Lincoln on Sunday morning when the incident occurred, the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office told KLKN.
That makes one fewer of these:
Of course, I must emphasize that merely waiting for our enemies to all shoot themselves is a losing strategy. Indeed, that we more frequently hear stories of them shooting themselves than of leftists shooting them is testimony to leftist apathy.