Mother speaks out after child is accidentally shot in Vancouver, WA Costco

If we aren't safe going to Costco, my, like, favorite safe place, like, we're not safe anywhere in this situation. It was just a normal afternoon at Costco for Vancouver mother Rachel Jackson until she took her daughter Olive to the eye care section. As the 13-year-old tried on frames, Vancouver police say a man dropped his concealed firearm, which went off, firing around. heard a loud bang and turned around and made a A man who was standing about like six feet to the left of us was standing next to a smoking gun that was on the floor. Jackson remembers small metal bullet fragments hitting the optical desk and one piece even striking her daughter, leaving the child with a cut on her back. And I yelled at him and told him to at least put the safety on as he was putting it. into a chest holster under his jacket and he told me that it had no safety. Because of these choices he made, my daughter was put in danger and my daughter was injured. Jackson is a Portland based muralist featured on the HBO Max show Artfully Designed. Wednesday, she took to social media to air her grievances to her thousands of followers. And not only. Like, do we have to be afraid of active shooters, but apparently now accidental shooters? She's grateful her daughter is okay, but can't reason with the danger she and other customers were put in. Our safety shouldn't rely on luck, good graces of others, or the responsibility of others. Like, I'm so furious that this is legal for people to just walk around with loaded firearms. I just really wish that our politicians would actually do something to protect us like Americans deserve.