I understand and share your grief.But now, 10 years elder, I suppose you could come to a conclusion about this painful event :

how to prevent such young kids to use a rifle, without the plain knowledge how to deal with ?

I have nothing against guns and rifles in the hand of young people, but first they should be instructed by adults and controlled when they use it.

Want to see what I mean : see "GhostRyder15's stories".

Well, they should have had supervision, which may have prevented the tragedy in the first place. They were only 13 and 14 at the time.

This is very tragic...

I'm always shaken by stories like this one. We are in a f*cked up world indeed.

That is horrible, and they should have been supervised.

The first cut is the deepest. When you lose that innocence of death, you will remember its sting even though you will see more and more of it every day.

When a child to sees another child die a senseless and purposeless death, it is a blunt and brutal reminder of their own mortality at a time of their life when they feel immortal.

I feel for the kid who accidentally shot his friend. That is burden that will stay with him for the rest of his life. Sometimes it is harder on the survivors of a tragedy than it was for those that were cut down. Survivors have to carry that knowledge and guilt and will never stop asking why.

If any good could come from such a tragedy, perhaps it is that parents were made more aware that allowing the use of guns by inexperienced youths can be tragic. Maybe some young people were reminded that they are not immortal.

You can never know what the reason or the purpose was, speaking as a person spent a long time at the bottom of a bottle with survivors guilt, it's best not to dwell on it.