The worst thing that happened lately is that the day before Thanksgiving, an 11-year-old girl took her mother's 22 caliber handgun out of a locked cabinet, got the trigger guard off, and shot herself in the head accidentally.  They figure there was a round left in the chamber, because it was supposed to be unloaded.  Two kids 11 and 13, left home alone, this is what they do.  She lingered a day in the hospital, then died.  The funeral was Monday, so our Thanksgiving was very sad, yet we are grateful too, for having ourselves together and all okay.  The girl was not directly related to me, but was my children's cousin on their father's side.  At first, the cops were treating it as a homicide, and there was talk of charging the 13-year-old with the shooting, and charging the mother with negligent homicide, but when seeing how many precautions the mother took with her gun, there really was nothing more she could have done.  The only thing is not to leave your precocious youngsters alone even if they should be old enough to care for themselves.  They just don't have enough restraint not to do something like that.  And possibly they took fingerprints and gunpowder tests to see who fired the gun; the 13-year-old is not being charged either.  They figure now, she was just grandstanding, showing off maybe, and there was a round in the chamber that nobody knew was there.  So even though she was not related to me, I couldn't help but cry for days every time I was alone.  Enough already.