Dear Americans: What's the leading cause of death among the young?

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The link didn't elaborate on why the trigger mechanism was faulty. Sounds like poor old Jake there was a negligent firearm owner. His safety was damaged, and the cylinder had a habit of jamming. Makes you wonder if he ever cleaned the thing...and of course he was very "responsible" in how he handled the weapon. I think the report was a wonderful explanation of the investigation -into the matter of whether or not a man committed suicide. It doesn't seem like he intended to do so, but lets not claim that his gun just "went off" one day. Clearly, the firearm was not in proper working order and he was not a competent owner. Now, we might imagine that it came off the factory line that way, but again, that's highly unlikely. More a case of (to my mind) longstanding user negligence. If I had to shoot from the hip on this one..I'd say (with near certainty) that he had cowboyed the pistol more than once and that it probably needed cleaning. The discharge was a long time and alot of effort in the making. Now, It isn't clear that he bought it new (and for the price quoted in the report it seems like it may have been used, but you never know, sales and all)...so it may be that a previous owner had damaged the weapon, that the reseller had sold a defective weapon (on and on). None of this, of course, excuses the man from scratching his head with a loaded revolver.

(the pistol in question is a Windicator, btw, not the best, but compliant with standards)

I hear a lot of excuses, but the facts that even you agree on are:

A faulty weapon went off unintentionally and killed its owner.