. >> my name is griffin dix. i used to be a professor of cultural anthropology at santa clara. i was in research at san francisco chronicle and examiner and research director at mac week. in 1994, a 15-year-old son was killed in an unintentional shooting visiting a friend house. my son's death is really an example of a finding that need to be added, that you have written here. my son was not playing with a gun. he was just visiting the home of a gun owner. you can look at my son's death from four points of view. let me first explain what happened. without telling my son, this boy decided he was going to get the gun that his father kept loaded and unlocked in his bedroom for protection. the boy got the gun, took out the ammunition clip, he put in an empty one, and took a back upstairs, pulled the trigger of the gun -- of course, a horrible mistake on his part --. of course, the gun was the only product in that home is exempt from consumer product regulation. there was still a blip in the chamber of the gun and the boy did not know that. you can look at what happened from four di