If she were a responsible gun owner and knew her gun was in her purse, it shouldn't have been out of her control and accessible to the child in the first place. So we know either she was not a responsible owner and/or didn't know the gun was in the purse. No need to pile on about what the child should or shouldn't have been doing when you have no way to know that.Cloudwraith wrote:I'm not placing blame anywhere, I wasn't there. What I AM saying, is, I doubt the Grandmother told the child to get into her purse knowing her firearm was in it.
ETA: Grandma may be a generally responsible owner, but may have had a lapse of responsibility or simply didn't realize the gun was in the purse. That's also a possibility, but doesn't change that we have no way of knowing that the child did anything she wasn't normally allowed to do, so blaming the child (which is what you're doing when you say she didn't have Grandma's permission) is IMO misplaced and inappropriate.