But sometimes, we do. Sometimes it makes sense, such as working against drunk driving or texting while driving. Someone doing something colossally stupid and killing or injuring someone we care about might spur us to do more.

I bring this up because I came across a report from Newsweek about an unbelievably awful situation in Texas that involved a firearm and a bunch of kids.

Two children have died after what police describe as a fatal mishandling of a firearm by a group of juveniles who were believed to be "playing with a gun," according to a statement posted to X, formerly Twitter, by police.

At approximately 8:20 p.m. on Wednesday, officers in Houston, Texas, were dispatched to an apartment complex after receiving reports of gunshots. Upon arrival, they were directed to an apartment where they discovered a young boy, believed to be around 11 years old, deceased from an apparent gunshot wound, Assistant Chief Keith Seafous of the Houston Police Department said in a statement posted to Facebook.

A second individual, a 17-year-old male, was found in a nearby wooded area with a gunshot wound. He was transported to a local hospital but later "succumbed to his injuries," according to the police statement.

Police believe that four family members, ranging in age from 10 to 17, were inside the apartment when the 17-year-old reportedly produced a firearm, possibly to show it off to the younger children. One of the other children then picked up the weapon and, possibly unaware it was loaded, pulled the trigger, killing the first victim, police say.

The 17-year-old reportedly fled the apartment, distraught at what happened. He was followed. He then turned and fired shots, hitting apartments but hurting no one, before turning the gun on himself.

Now, this is an unmitigatedly awful event. No one can reasonably dispute that. It's terrible on every level. Two lives ended because of poor decisions.

What bothers me isn't the report itself. I'm not even bothered by the spokesperson for the Houston Police Department telling people to keep their guns locked up. I tend to agree with that and argue that people should do as much myself.

No, my issue is that this is included under the tag "gun control" for Newsweek.

I don't know if that was the writer's decision or the editors or whoever else's, but it's not a gun control thing.

Let's keep in mind that this was a 17-year-old person. He couldn't lawfully own a gun nor be in possession of one. Yet he had it and carried it into an apartment full of children despite the laws meant to prevent such a situation.

There are failures here, to be sure, but it's not a lack of gun control

If anything, it's a lack of education. It's a lack of understanding that guns aren't for showing off, that they're deadly tools that need to be treated with respect, and that means not laying them around where kids can pick them up and start screwing around with them.

But we're not allowed to interject this in our schools where it might actually do some good. No, that might encourage someone to own guns later in life and we can't have that. It's better that people remain ignorant, learning about guns from Hollywood and the music industry--two entities that know nothing about how to properly handle a firearm.

This is a tragedy, but it's not one brought about by a lack of gun control, and I resent the hell out of Newsweek lumping it under that tag.