Red Light Racicot Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 People are getting shot by toddlers on a weekly basis this year This week a 2-year-old in South Carolina found a gun in the back seat of the car he was riding in and accidentally shot his grandmother, who was sitting in the passenger seat. This type of thing happens from time to time: a little kid finds a gun, fires it, and hurts or kills himself or someone else. These cases rarely bubble up to the national level except when someone, like a parent, ends up dead. But cases like this happen a lot more frequently than you might think. After spending a few hours sifting through news reports, I've found at least 43 instances this year of somebody being shot by a toddler 3 or younger. In 31 of those 43 cases, a toddler found a gun and shot himself or herself. In August, for instance, a 21-month-old in the St. Louis area found a loaded handgun at his grandmother's house and shot himself in the torso. His mother took him to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Earlier in the year a Michigan 3-year-old found a loaded .40-caliber handgun in a closet while his dad and brother were outside. He shot himself in the head and died before rescue workers arrived. The stories go on and on like this: Roughly once a week this year, on average, a small child has found a gun, pointed it at himself or someone else, and pulled the trigger. Boys are disproportionately likely to do this: I could find only three cases where a girl under the age of 4 wounded someone with a gun. In 13 of the 43 total incidents, a child's self-inflicted injuries were fatal. In two other cases, another person died after being shot by a toddler: a father in Alabama, and a 1-year-old in Ohio. In one instance, a 3-year-old managed to wound both of his parents with a single gunshot at an Albuquerque motel. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/14/people-are-getting-shot-by-toddlers-on-a-weekly-basis-this-year/ Please get this under control America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuktravella Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 dumb parents out dumbing the dumbies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanuckNut4Life Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuxfanabroad Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Guns don't kill people. Now, impulsive, aggressive babies with guns on the other hand... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grapefruits Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 or firearm owners could be more responsible with their firearms. Just a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugor Hill Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 We need good criminals with guns to offset the bad criminals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadianLoonie Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 We need good criminals with guns to offset the bad criminals. They're called the police. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugor Hill Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 They're called the police. In before pro-police libertarians bash you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadianLoonie Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 In before pro-police libertarians bash you. Ambien's not here anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugor Hill Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Ambien's not here anymore. Exactly what I was expecting somebody to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckylager Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 The war on Errorism isn't over, and we're sorry, but we might have made a mistake eh. Sorry again, but I don't think your whole 2nd amendment is working out so well for... Ya, sorry America. Maybe you guys should put up a big wall or something, we don't want Canadians getting inferior firearms, AR's really suck for hunting, they're only good for mass shootings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatedkid666 Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 or firearm owners could be more responsible with their firearms. Just a thought. Or there could be no firearm owners. Americans lost that privledge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bocivus Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Or there could be no firearm owners. Americans lost that privledge Except for the police, right? After all, in order to get dem evil gunz, a bunch of thugs in uniforms will need and use guns to accomplish that. What you really mean is that the government should have the monopolization on all firearms to enforce your political opinions on who should and shouldn't have guns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nucklehead Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Ambien's not here anymore. Why, were did he go? We didn't trade him did we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadianLoonie Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Why, were did he go? We didn't trade him did we? Game misconduct... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S.Strowbridge Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 or firearm owners could be more responsible with their firearms. Just a thought. So should we sell guns to everyone and just hope they will be responsible? Or should we test to make sure they are responsible before they get a gun? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neversummer Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Those dumb Australians! Meet A Generation That Has Grown Up Free From Mass Shootings http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/australia-gun-control_561bb80ce4b0e66ad4c86fa0 I Went After Guns. Obama Can, Too. (John Howard, past PM of Australia) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/opinion/australia-banned-assault-weapons-america-can-too.html?_r=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis15 Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 A testament to both how many guns there are in the US, and how much of a percentage of those that aren't kept responsibly. Keep in mind this is just the reports of toddlers actually firing a gun and injuring someone, not the cases where a gun wasn't properly secured and either no one found it or nothing bad happened when they did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riffraff Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Pew pew pew! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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