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Minimum common sense response to this should be a push to require safeties on all new firearms sold in the US and mandatory gun safety classes for ownership. I'm not sold on this being an accident but even if it was both of those measures would go a long way to preventing deaths by firearm and not be an unreasonable burden on gun owners.
This gun was apparently a Glock, they have safeties, but they are usually a trigger safety.
That works like this:
There is a separate metal tab on the trigger, that gets pushed in when you pull the trigger allowing the gun to fire, it makes it drop safe, but enables the user to pull the gun and fite without a manual safety.
Not all safeties are created equal. Some are push button style or switches that need to be toggled, possibly could have helped in this case if it was accidental. Others, like one of mine, simply need the gun held properly to be able to fire, most likely that would not have helped this situation. Safeties are predominantly meant to prevent misfires by dropping it, or mishandling the weapon.
However, one of the core gun safety rules is to never point your weapon at anything you do not intend to destroy. Safety or not.