A 12-year-old boy was shot and killed last Friday in Ohio. The killer? His 11-year-old brother, who accidentally fired the gun while they were out at a target-shooting outing, as reported by CantonRep.com.

Joseph Baily, suffered a head wound from a hand gun and was pronounced dead on the scene. According to Occupy Democrats, despite the shooting being ruled as accidental, local authorities could file charges against the person who left the weapon unsecured was the boys' father.

Sheriff Dale Williams of Carroll County, "It was an accident. It (shooter) was a juvenile. It was a brother. His brother was 11 years old," Ohio said.

He went on, "The 11-year-old picked up a weapon off of a picnic table. He accidentally shot it."

The tragic incident could have been easily prevented, and this was only the latest in a string of shooting reports over the past weeks. Just recently, an incident about an 11-year-old 'bully ' shot his 8-year-old neighbor dead over an argument about a puppy. Last week, a shooter killed nine people at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, an incident that particularly left President Barack Obama frustrated, leading him to push more gun control laws.

In Washington on Friday, the president spoke about pushing the issue, with CNN reporting that his administration is looking into a way that it can further enforce existing regulations. He said during the a press conference at the White House, I'm going to talk about this on a regular basis. And I will politicize this. Because our inaction is a political decision that we're making. Unless we change that political dynamic, we're not going to be able to make a big dent in this problem."

He also slammed those who did not agree on his sentiments, lamenting. The people who are troubled by this have to be as intense and organized and adamant about this issue as folks on the other side who are absolutists, who think that any gun safety measures are an assault on freedom or communistic or a plot by me to take over and stay in power forever or something."

While Obama was speaking mostly about mass murders and school shootings, the issue of gun control is a long time coming. According to Every Town Research, roughly at least 100 children were killed every year due to accidental shootings. About two-thirds of these unintended deaths take place in a home or a vehicle that belonged to the victims' families who legally own guns, but failed to secure them.

With these incidents and numbers in mind, do you think stricter gun control laws should be implemented, or should Obama do the opposite and relax them instead?