WARNING: This post utilizes irony and tongue-in-cheek stuff.

A woman in the US state of Idaho has been killed after her two-year-old son accidentally shot her with a gun he found when reaching into her handbag. The woman, named by the local sheriff’s office as Veronica J Rutledge, 29, was shot in a Wal-Mart in Hayden, a town in Idaho’s northern panhandle. She had been shopping with several children at the time, in the rear of the store near the electronics area, when the shooting occurred, spokesman said.

Officials said Ms Rutledge had had a concealed weapons permit. Witnesses and video surveillance from the store helped officials determine the shooting was accidental. The victim came from Blackfoot, a town in the south of Idaho (population 11,854, (now 11,853 Ed.) the sheriff’s office said in a statement on Facebook. (BBC © 2014)

I feel very sorry for the poor victim, too young to understand that the gun could kill its mother. The child will have to live a lifetime in the knowledge that he or she had killed its mother. Can you imagine having a loaded gun in your purse with “several children” around you, and out for a morning’s shopping? Gun enthusiasts are doing this all the time, apparently. They are encouraged to defend themselves against small kids and shop assistants. You never know. It’s the Constitution you see. It’s allowed. Hayden, Idaho, population 13, 681 is a bigger town and it probably seems very violent to someone from Blackfoot, which must explain the loaded gun. So we can move on, can’t we? It’s all perfectly Constitutional.