5 year old, alone in truck, accidentally shoots himself in the head

[butters]

tragic, but how comes the child was left alone in the truck with a loaded firearm?
https://www.waaytv.com/content/news...-old-shot-himself-in-driveway--567530871.html

no amount of thoughts and prayers will bring the child back or alleviate the sorrow of his parents. this article (short) goes on to explain why so many accidental gun-deaths are left unprosecuted, and i get that to an extent, but what will get people to sit up and realise you just can't do that kind of thing and it's okay, normal, even?

https://www.waaytv.com/content/news...y-in-most-accidental-shootings-567535611.html

maybe these parents will never have another gun in the house or truck. i would have thought that, even in such cases of 'mistake/accident' they should have their license to own and carry a gun revoked, if only for a certain length of time and with mandatory educational classes on safety awareness.

 

[phrodeau]

Leaving a child unattended with a loaded weapon should lead to jail time.

 

[BotanyBoy]

but what will get people to sit up and realise you just can't do that kind of thing and it's okay, normal, even?

Can you point to anyone who think's it's ok or normal??

maybe these parents will never have another gun in the house or truck. i would have thought that, even in such cases of 'mistake/accident' they should have their license to own and carry a gun revoked, if only for a certain length of time and with mandatory educational classes on safety awareness.

There is no licence to own, and only like 16 states require a licence to carry.

And in the tradition of liberty, that's a big NO-GO to all that other illiberal shit.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Leaving a child unattended with a loaded weapon should lead to jail time.

Write your state legislator.

 

[RobDownSouth]

It seems to be the ones who cherish their steel penis substitutes more than their children who are the ones most likely to leave a loaded weapon within reach of a child.

#ThinningTehHerd
#ButButMahFREEDUMB

 

[Saint Peter]

Marksmanship runs in the family.

 

[Conager]

If the nitwits that hate guns knew anything at all about guns they would be even more rightly horrified by the stupidity involved here.

Not only was it loaded, it is almost a certainty that it had a round chambered, and possibly was a model either with no safety or had the safety off.

The odds of a five-year-old chambering a round and depressing the safety before shooting himself seems pretty unlikely.

The odds would go up of course if it was a revolver and naturally the only gun they want in the hands of the citizenry would be perhaps a single action revolver.

 

[BotanyBoy]

It seems to be the ones who cherish their steel penis substitutes more than their children who are the ones most likely to leave a loaded weapon within reach of a child.

#ThinningTehHerd
#ButButMahFREEDUMB

THINNING THE HERD!!! Rob gets it.

But then he goes on to show his consistent and persistent hatred for liberty and freedom....sooooo patriotic!! Just like socialism and open borders!!

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Leaving a child unattended with a loaded weapon should lead to jail time.

I would think there is a lot of precedent. Sounds like "reckless endangerment".

 

[BotanyBoy]

If the nitwits that hate guns knew anything at all about guns they would be even more rightly horrified by the stupidity involved here.

Not only was it loaded, it is almost a certainty that it had a round chambered, and possibly was a model either with no safety or had the safety off.

The odds of a five-year-old chambering a round and depressing the safety before shooting himself seems pretty unlikely.

The odds would go up of course if it was a revolver and naturally the only gun they want in the hands of the citizenry would be perhaps a single action revolver.

I doubt a 5 y/o could operate a revolver any easier than racking a slide.

It was red-con 1.

 

[Conager]

It seems to be the ones who cherish their steel penis substitutes more than their children who are the ones most likely to leave a loaded weapon within reach of a child.

#ThinningTehHerd
#ButButMahFREEDUMB

I support your sexualisation of firearms since I don't believe in kinkshaming.

I still haven't gotten a solid answer out of you as to whether or not the armed security guard (that you ran and hid behind because a black woman had the temerity to ask you for spare change) let you fondle his "steel penis substitute" or at least gaze longingly at it un-holstered ?

Do these fantasies of yours ever involve thoughts of fellatio? Just offering support, here.

 

[Conager]

I doubt a 5 y/o could operate a revolver any easier than racking a slide.

It was red-con 1.

I would assume so. No excuse for leaving an unloaded weapon out of your control, much less one ready to fire.

Probably more guns stolen from cars and trucks than any other place.

 

[BotanyBoy]

I would assume so. No excuse for leaving an unloaded weapon out of your control, much less one ready to fire.

Probably more guns stolen from cars and trucks than any other place.

Yup, bad basic gun etiquette.

I'm a total freak about having positive control over my weapons and can't think of a time I ever left any in my car.

 

[Conager]

Yup, bad basic gun etiquette.

I'm a total freak about having positive control over my weapons and can't think of a time I ever left any in my car.

If you lived in a state like mine that actually recognizes ones God-givrn right to actually bear arms, there's no excuse to ever leave your gun alone in a car, if not for the occasional idiot created, inaccurately named, "gun free zones."

I once ran into a very chagrined Fed. He was put for drinks, left his firearm locked in the glovebox of some girls car. She left. He was trying to locate her. Another time, some guy was relieved to find his very nice leather jacket still in the bar when he returned. His gun was in the pocket.

 

[BotanyBoy]

If you lived in a state like mine that actually recognizes ones God-givrn right to actually bear arms, there's no excuse to ever leave your gun alone in a car, if not for the occasional idiot created, inaccurately named, "gun free zones."

Yea....and those are inaccurately named.

This is where questions of civil disobedience come in for me.

A few of those "gun free zones" are the most likely place I'd need one.

Nobody knows, nobody needs to know.

I once ran into a very chagrined Fed. He was put for drinks, left his firearm locked in the glovebox of some girls car. She left. He was trying to locate her. Another time, some guy was relieved to find his very nice leather jacket still in the bar when he returned. His gun was in the pocket.

Jezz.

I always try to plan my partying so that I can leave the guns and knives locked up.

If it comes up and I can't? Then I can't.

But in most cases I'm able to run home drop the gear off and go back out...but I don't do that much anymore.

Other than school/sparing/rolling we occasionally catch a concert/show but it's not even a weekly thing.

I'd rather flight sim and go to bed early most days.

 

[Conager]

In his case he absolutely could have carried anywhere but due to him having to then explain which reviled agency he works for he figured that it would be easier and simpler to leave the gun behind.

He was texting her explaining that he has to know where his gun is right now or he has to report it stolen. It was his duty weapon.

 

[Saint_Ann]

I knew what a safety was at five years old.

 

[Dribble]

I have no issue w sane people owning guns. But if one of your guns hurts someone, or is used in a crime...you are just as much at fault as the person that did it. It is called responsibility. Something most Republicans have no clue about.

 

[girlsmiley]

I knew what a safety was at five years old.

Crying shame.

 

[RobDownSouth]

both of the board incels here waxing poetically about their steel penis substitutes. No surprises there!!

 

[Saint_Ann]

Crying shame.

That I wasn't dumb enough to shoot myself in the head?

 

[Saint_Ann]

both of the board incels here waxing poetically about their steel penis substitutes. No surprises there!!

^
Constantly thinking about penises.

 

[BotanyBoy]

both of the board incels here waxing poetically about their steel penis substitutes. No surprises there!!

LOL now we've gone from racial slurs to sexuality shaming.....soooooooo progressive.

 

[Conager]

. . .not to mention the truthfulness problem and the difficulty with slang from big words they don't understand.

As I understand it you have expressed a lack of interest. That may or may not involve celibacy, but if so, that would be voluntary, wouldn't it?

I have never been involuntarily celibate, and after a couple of years off for self-reflection which was fairly easy given the dearth of interesting possibilities, I haven't been any kind of celibate.

Interesting that Rob, who plans several thousand dollar second dates is concerned about who does and doesn't get laid. Seems to me that this is yet another case of him projecting his own insecurities.

 

[phrodeau]

both of the board incels here waxing poetically about their steel penis substitutes. No surprises there!!

Funny how those for whom the shoe fits, wear it.