NOT AN ACCIDENT.

I hate the word "accident". Mostly it's used to excuse stupidity, carelessness, and even malice. This week 12 people, including four children, died in a Bronx apartment building fire. The blaze was started by a 3-year-old boy playing with a stove and was described by Mayor de Blasio as a "horrible, tragic accident". It was not an accident. Some adult was not watching that child, someone was not preventing him from "playing" with a deadly device. Someone (or someones) is responsible for this tragic non-accident and should be arrested and tried and punished.  I wonder what affect this will have on that 3-year-old when he's older and learns his action killed a dozen people, and who will he blame?