It's not the guns that kill people, it's the... babies..
3 year old finds gun and kills mother
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I googled shootings by children and this happens way more than it should
this story from a couple of years ago was intriguing though
this story from a couple of years ago was intriguing though
BURKESVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A 5-year-old boy accidentally shot his 2-year-old sister to death in rural southern Kentucky with a rifle he had received as a gift last year, authorities said.
The children’s mother was home at the time of the shooting Tuesday afternoon but had stepped on to the porch for “no more than three minutes,” Cumberland County Coroner Gary White told WKYT-TV.
White told the Lexington Herald-Leader the boy received the .22-caliber rifle as a gift. He said the rifle was kept in a corner and the family didn’t realize a bullet was left inside it.
“It’s a Crickett,” White said, referring to a company that specifically makes guns, clothes and books for children. “It’s a little rifle for a kid. … The little boy’s used to shooting the little gun.” (it's little but it is lethal though)
White said the shooting was an accident.
It wasn’t immediately clear who gave the boy the gun or exactly what led up to the shooting. White did not return a telephone call from The Associated Press on Wednesday.
State police said in a brief news release the shooting occurred when the boy was “playing” with the rifle, but did not elaborate.
It is not clear whether any charges will be filed, said Kentucky State Police spokesman Trooper Billy Gregory.
“I think it’s too early to say whether there will or won’t be,” Gregory said Wednesday.
Keystone Sporting Arms, based in Milton, Penn., produced 60,000 Crickett and Chipmunk rifles in 2008, according to its website. It also makes guns for adults, but most of its products are geared toward children.
The company’s slogan is “my first rifle” and its website has a “Kids Corner” section where pictures of young boys and girls are displayed, most of them showing the children at shooting ranges and on bird and deer hunts. The smaller rifles are sold with a mount to use at a shooting range.
“The goal of KSA is to instill gun safety in the minds of youth shooters and encourage them to gain the knowledge and respect that hunting and shooting activities require and deserve,” the website said.
No one at the company answered the phone Wednesday.
I googled shootings by children and this happens way more than it should
this story from a couple of years ago was intriguing though
I'm sorry but I just don't understand Americans unique fascination with guns
Neither do we.
mc_brew
#NotMyPresident
power and tribalism... many whites fantasize about being attacked by a possessed hulked up black man hellbent on rape and torture... in their fantasy they pull out their trusty gun and murder this super human evil enraged black man dead and score another point for saving the angelic white race.... it's really that simple...
MidwestD
Clyde Frog's Shooter
Bill Maher said it best when he talked about the fact that many Americans don't view their guns as tools, they have a borderline sexual relationship with them.
me too, I live here and til this day, all these stories have me
You must be white to even think like that.
No, that's how a lot of them think. They imagine killing black people, or if they're one of those mma type dudes they imagine beating up black people. Those types are very insecure, and often conservative, which leads to that type of thinking.
You must be white also.