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Title: Toddler mistook loaded gun for Wii gadget.
Post by: Turk on 11 March 2010, 00:08:03
http://www.newser.com/story/82873/toddler-kills-self-with-gun-she-mistook-for-wii-gadget.html
Title: Re: Toddler mistook loaded gun for Wii gadget.
Post by: jonnycool on 11 March 2010, 06:52:44
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http://www.newser.com/story/82873/toddler-kills-self-with-gun-she-mistook-for-wii-gadget.html
WTF are they doing leaving a loaded gun around in a house with little kids in? Beyond belief  >:(
Title: Re: Toddler mistook loaded gun for Wii gadget.
Post by: Plomien on 11 March 2010, 07:30:42
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http://www.newser.com/story/82873/toddler-kills-self-with-gun-she-mistook-for-wii-gadget.html
WTF are they doing leaving a loaded gun around in a house with little kids in? Beyond belief  >:(
I agree, If you have a weapon in the house it should be out of reach of kids and under lock and key
Title: Re: Toddler mistook loaded gun for Wii gadget.
Post by: Chris_H on 11 March 2010, 10:06:24
Another problem caused, in part, by the new "virtual world" catching people out.

Tragic.
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Post by: Ddraigcymro on 11 March 2010, 10:19:29
And I worry about the sharp knifes in the cutlery draw what was the parents thinking- or lack of as may be
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Post by: david_omega on 11 March 2010, 10:39:37
and i thought CGi was realistic!
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Post by: Kiksomass on 11 March 2010, 11:07:22
Some parents just shouldn't have kids....and now two don't.Very tragic and what's worse, very preventable :( :( :(
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Post by: Seth on 11 March 2010, 11:13:45
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Some parents just shouldn't have kids....and now two don't.Very tragic and what's worse, very preventable :( :( :(
Spot on Jon :y
Title: Re: Toddler mistook loaded gun for Wii gadget.
Post by: Lazydocker on 11 March 2010, 11:29:43
Sad, very sad :( :(

I hope the parents get locked up for their stupidity >:( >:(

I mean, FFS, why would you leave a gun lying around? And surely if he'd been checking for a prowler the night before he'd have taken the gun back to the bedroom with him :-? :-?

Just an excuse for their stupidity IMO >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: Toddler mistook loaded gun for Wii gadget.
Post by: Entwood on 11 March 2010, 11:42:21
One of the problems of the "gun culture" I'm afraid ... "familiarity breeds contempt" ... after 38 years of regularly handling firearms I still respect what they can do ....  perhaps it has a great deal to do with the way I was TAUGHT to handle them ... rather than produce a driving licenece and buy one ... :(
Title: Re: Toddler mistook loaded gun for Wii gadget.
Post by: Sixstring on 11 March 2010, 11:59:25
My Instructor always told us three things
1)treat EVERY firearm as if its loaded
2)NEVER point a firearm at anyone unless you mean to pull the trigger next
3)NEVER walk away from a loaded weapon and leave it.

Still regularly shoot, and can hear his words ringing in my ears 20 years on, clear as day.

What a waste of a life. String the parents up, I'll pull the lever!!
Title: Re: Toddler mistook loaded gun for Wii gadget.
Post by: Banjax on 11 March 2010, 12:09:14
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One of the problems of the "gun culture" I'm afraid ... "familiarity breeds contempt" ... after 38 years of regularly handling firearms I still respect what they can do ....  perhaps it has a great deal to do with the way I was TAUGHT to handle them ... rather than produce a driving licenece and buy one ... :(

exactly - the easy availability of guns in the US means those of an intellectually challenged nature will get them too i'm afraid with no training or experience necessary :(
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Post by: redelitev6 on 11 March 2010, 17:58:37
 >:( good to see shit for brains rednecks still abound  >:(
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Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 11 March 2010, 18:01:52
Those who live by the gun will die by the gun..........including the innocents!! :'( :'( :'(
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Post by: PhilRich on 11 March 2010, 21:35:52
Why is it the innocent have to die before lessons are learnt? :'(
Title: Re: Toddler mistook loaded gun for Wii gadget.
Post by: Chris_H on 12 March 2010, 10:19:37
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Why is it the innocent have to die before lessons are learnt? :'(
I don't think there's any reason to believe that lessons will be learnt.

Unless we constrict everyone with oppressive pinnickity laws, there will always be sporadic background events such as this.  There are some stupid individuals around who don't think - and there always will be.  :(