17-year-old teenager dead today 16-year-old friend accidentally shoot face unsecured gun teen shoot face dire consequences.according atlanta journal-constitution group boys play load gun inside apartment complex shoot occur relatives boys range age 13 17 tell reporters friends cousins.the 16-year-old apparently hold gun midnight discharge strike old boy face shoot suspect run home tell family shoot someone family members drive back scene arrest charge involuntary manslaughter.in 2014 news 21 find 28,000 children teens kill year unite state firearms put perspective mean every soldier kill afghanistan eleven years least thirteen kid kill america.teenagers age 15 19 make two-thirds youth gun deaths america.the news21 find compile complete database date record obtain 49 state health departments fbi supplementary homicide reports.many children kill year die unintentional shoot often time accidents happen another child get hand unsecured weapon discharge matter fact american children sixteen time likely kill accidental shoot counterparts industrialize nations.although kid case charge crime negligent parent rarely twenty-seven state georgia include district columbia child access prevention cap laws laws hold parent responsible children access gun someone hurt enforcement almost nonexistent accord shreveport time police often feel guilty charge parent grieve loss child.slate report even state laws exist inconsistent standards penalties culpability vary widely state state inconsistently apply prosecutors often choose pursue case negligent parent sympathy perhaps sense case hard win understandable shoot tragedies compound family misery send grieve parent jail cap laws effective deterrent vigorously enforced.so parent get away negligence scar 16-year-old kid charge crime mother appall would fully expect charge crime son pick gun hurt someone else adults responsible keep little humans safe something neglectful someone die result charged.to give us pass prosecute child mind-boggling meanwhile shoot shoot shoot go unprosecuted state.featured image via freakout nation hypocrisy georgia teen charge accidental shoot death parent largely go unprosecuted