5-year-old shoots 2-year-old sister with gift rifle

[CanIrish]

Two-year-old girl fatally shot by five-year-old brother in Kentucky

So let me understand this... in the USA they cannot sell Kinder Surprises because the little toy is considered to be a 'choke hazard'... but they can sell "riffles designed specially for kids"???

 

[EagleSmack]

Right

... and they also can have swimming pools in the U.S.

 

[Zipperfish]

But no wildebeests. There must be some connection.

 

[Serryah]

There is no protection of children's toys in the Constitution like their is for kids to have their guns.

 

[karrie]

Two-year-old girl fatally shot by five-year-old brother in Kentucky

So let me understand this... in the USA they cannot sell Kinder Surprises because the little toy is considered to be a 'choke hazard'... but they can sell "riffles designed specially for kids"???

Toys face regulations because the natural assumption is that children will be left alone with them at some point.

The rational, logical assumption is that a child will never be left alone with a gun.

 

[petros]

Where did the kid get the idea you can shoot someone and they live? TV?

 

[Colpy]

Two-year-old girl fatally shot by five-year-old brother in Kentucky

So let me understand this... in the USA they cannot sell Kinder Surprises because the little toy is considered to be a 'choke hazard'... but they can sell "riffles designed specially for kids"???

Yes.

.22 single shot rifles are sold scaled down so they can be used by young children. Some of them are quite nice.

The idea is to get them young, and teach them proper gun handling, safety, etc.

Obviously this family screwed up. According to the article, not only was the gun left unsecured, it was loaded.

A tragedy.

Meanwhile, the anti-gun idiots demonstrate their stupidity as well.

Texas Schools Reportedly Cancel Gun Safety Visits Because They’re Part of the NRA | TheBlaze.com

 

[Zipperfish]

Thank god that kid wasn't given a Kinder Surprise is all I can say.

 

[EagleSmack]

Thank god that kid wasn't given a Kinder Surprise is all I can say.

I wonder if they had a pool.

 

[Corduroy]

If that 2 year old had a gun she could have protected herself.

/gun-nut logic

 

[EagleSmack]

If that 2 year old had a gun she could have protected herself.

/gun-nut logic

No...that is anti-gun nut logic.

 

[Zipperfish]

I wonder if they had a pool.

Or a wildebeest!

 

[EagleSmack]

Or a wildebeest!

More anti-gun logic?

Drownings are the second leading cause of child deaths... not guns or wildebeest.

 

[Zipperfish]

Where did the kid get the idea you can shoot someone and they live? TV?

Where did the parents get the idea it was a good idea to give a five year old a loaded gun without supervision? That's social Darwinism right there.

 

[Colpy]

Where did the parents get the idea it was a good idea to give a five year old a loaded gun without supervision? That's social Darwinism right there.

I don't think they gave it to him. I think the rifle was left unsecured, because in many households having firearms around is just not at all unusual.

Leaving it loaded was an oversight, an accident.

I am not defending the practices of this family, I'm just pointing out how it happened.

I was brought up in the nicest family you can imagine, Leave It To Beaver stuff, and my home was full of guns, standing in the corner of every closet in the house. At the time, that didn't raise an eyebrow, and we lived in a city.

Dad always kept the ammunition under lock and key.

 

[EagleSmack]

Where did the parents get the idea it was a good idea to give a five year old a loaded gun without supervision? That's social Darwinism right there.

Key word... parenting. The gun was left in the corner of a room loaded. Again parenting.

 

[Zipperfish]

I don't think they gave it to him. I think the rifle was left unsecured, because in many households having firearms around is just not at all unusual.

Leaving it loaded was an oversight, an accident.

I am not defending the practices of this family, I'm just pointing out how it happened.

I was brought up in the nicest family you can imagine, Leave It To Beaver stuff, and my home was full of guns, standing in the corner of every closet in the house. At the time, that didn't raise an eyebrow, and we lived in a city.

Dad always kept the ammunition under lock and key.

I just think the excuse that they forgot the gun was loaded is a pile of crap. It's like throwing a kid out the window and saying you forgot there was gravity. Too bad for the little girl. Too bad for the little boy--he'll have to live with it. He's probably just realizing now that his sister is never coming back. The parents I don't have much sympathy for. They can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

 

[EagleSmack]

I just think the excuse that they forgot the gun was loaded is a pile of crap. It's like throwing a kid out the window and saying you forgot there was gravity. Too bad for the little girl. Too bad for the little boy--he'll have to live with it. He's probably just realizing now that his sister is never coming back. The parents I don't have much sympathy for. They can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

The same with kids who drown? To hell with those parents? What about kids who die from poison?

 

[DaSleeper]

The same with kids who drown? To hell with those parents? What about kids who die from poison?

Now now Eagle.....Don't you know you are more dead with a gun than any other method? 8O

 

[EagleSmack]

Now now Eagle.....Don't you know you are more dead with a gun than any other method? 8O

And apparently parents who weren't watching their kid when they crawled into the pool or downed a mouthful of Drain-O are deserving of our sympathy over those with gun accidents.