Two year old shoots mom with mom's gun.

[BettyPoop]

Finally a shooting with a happy ending. Another down and how many to go?

 

[BotanyBoy]

Why is that a happy ending ya psycho??

 

[smoothg103rd]

What kind of gun? A water gun, that's about the only gun a two year old can shoot without hurting themselves.

 

[BettyPoop]

Why is that a happy ending ya psycho??

Because Idaho has a "crawl your ground" gun policy. The two year felt threatened.

 

[richard_daily]

Because Idaho has a "crawl your ground" gun policy. The two year felt threatened.

So you think it's cool and funny? that's why you posted this?

 

[PoppingTom]

So you think it's cool and funny? that's why you posted this?

You sound like shock will change something on gun laws.

And that's funny.

 

[Debbie]

Who decided it was bring the dumbass to Lit with them day? Some of the asinine posts on some threads lately are either from bored trolls or idiots who don't have their brains engaged.

This is horrible. What a terrible tragedy for everybody.

 

[Elixxxher]

Right up there with the girl who killed her instructor with an uzi. Sad but when will these brilliant americans get it that their gun laws are seriously out of touch with the realities of today. Do average people really need to have access to and carry guns on a regular basis. Check out Uzi incident

 

[BotanyBoy]

You sound like shock will change something on gun laws.

And that's funny.

Do you just make that shit up?

No one said anything about changing gun laws, it's a "Someone got shot LOL" thread by a whack job who laughs at accidental severe injury/death.

Right up there with the girl who killed her instructor with an uzi. Sad but when will these brilliant americans get it that their gun laws are seriously out of touch with the realities of today. Do average people really need to have access to and carry guns on a regular basis. Check out Uzi incident

Ummm...nothing like it and yes average people really need to have access to and carry guns on a regular basis.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

Not much chance of that kid growing up with anything that resembles a normal life.

 

[Kitty]

Because Idaho has a "crawl your ground" gun policy. The two year felt threatened.

Betty Poop? "Crawl" your ground?

Right. My cue to shut it off and enjoy the great outdoors lmao.

And with that...


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[CandiCame]

Are you talking about this? Because that's not a fucking joke. As has already been stated. That's something that could very easily happen to anyone and now that kid has to deal with that shit. Regardless of where you stand on the issue of gun culture, there's no way you can look at how much that's gonna fuck somebody up; knowing that you KILLED someone, as a TODDLER and be like, "That's fucking funny". Because it's not even shock humor for people in the states. We know those risks. It's not shocking when it happens, it's sad.

 

[dolf]

Are you talking about this? Because that's not a fucking joke. As has already been stated. That's something that could very easily happen to anyone and now that kid has to deal with that shit. Regardless of where you stand on the issue of gun culture, there's no way you can look at how much that's gonna fuck somebody up; knowing that you KILLED someone, as a TODDLER and be like, "That's fucking funny". Because it's not even shock humor for people in the states. We know those risks. It's not shocking when it happens, it's sad.

^^this.

even if the mother was a moron, the poor kid has to live with the knowledge that he killed his mother, forever.

 

[JBCorbell]

Tragic for the kid, yes.
Tragic that this was even possible.
Tragic for the world that we are exposed once again to Americas stupid, stupid, stupid gun obsession.

 

[stickygirl]

even if the mother was a moron, the poor kid has to live with the knowledge that he killed his mother, forever.

Funny how guns just keep giving and giving like that: most threads here would have encouraged the woman to carry a gun.

 

[dolf]

Funny how guns just keep giving and giving like that: most threads here would have encouraged the woman to carry a gun.

I think even the nuttiest of gun nuts would advise keeping it out of the reach of toddlers though.

 

[PoppingTom]

No one said anything about changing gun laws

Yeah, BB, that's exactly the thing.

What happened is a terrible tragedy. A sad sad thing.

But it wasn't inevitable. And it wouldn't be inevitable in the future.

Except in the US of fucking A !

 

[PoppingTom]

.... it's not even shock humor for people in the states. We know those risks. It's not shocking when it happens, it's sad.

And that's really sad.

And it's funy to see how Americans, instead of preventing this in the future, prevent any prevention regarding this.

 

[CandiCame]

And that's really sad.

And it's funy to see how Americans, instead of preventing this in the future, prevent any prevention regarding this.

Yeah. Sad. People who are in favor of more strict gun control find it sad because it's a gun based tragedy, like you're suggesting. People who are in favor of current conceal and carry laws think it's sad because that kid has to deal with that shit regardless of who was at fault. There's no wiggle room yet for humor. Black humor needs tragedy + TIME. In the states we tend not to have enough time between the problems to let the humor incur. And a lot of people are going to never, regardless of the passage of time, be able to see the humor because people are more protective about their kids. If she had just accidentally discharged the gun herself, it would be funnier faster. But now there's a baby involved so that throws off the whole 'ability to joke about it' thing.

 

[Sean]

Funny isn't it, I go to the supermarket at least once a week and I've never felt the need to be armed.

 

[CandiCame]

Funny isn't it, I go to the supermarket at least once a week and I've never felt the need to be armed.

See, I generally am armed when I'm at the supermarket and my kid has never felt the need to shoot me.

 

[Sean]

Yeah. Sad. People who are in favor of more strict gun control find it sad because it's a gun based tragedy, like you're suggesting. People who are in favor of current conceal and carry laws think it's sad because that kid has to deal with that shit regardless of who was at fault. There's no wiggle room yet for humor. Black humor needs tragedy + TIME. In the states we tend not to have enough time between the problems to let the humor incur. And a lot of people are going to never, regardless of the passage of time, be able to see the humor because people are more protective about their kids. If she had just accidentally discharged the gun herself, it would be funnier faster. But now there's a baby involved so that throws off the whole 'ability to joke about it' thing.

LoL. I heard my first King's Cross Fire joke less than an hour after it happened. My first Hungerford joke less than a day. I think my first Challenger joke was about twenty minutes.

 

[CandiCame]

LoL. I heard my first King's Cross Fire joke less than an hour after it happened. My first Hungerford joke less than a day. I think my first Challenger joke was about twenty minutes.

Too soon, man.

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[CandiCame]

Also, I'm not super familiar with the first two. I mean, I know they were things that happened, but it's before my time so I'm not super aware of the emotions that were involve. The challenger I know. The splody civilian. Yet I've never heard a challenger joke. I think because it goes the other way too. Eventually it stops being funny because it's no longer relivent. Because some people would be like, "Oh I remember that!" But all I can do is be like, "Oh, I heard of that. A civilian exploded or something?" So I don't have the kind of cultural literacy it would take for that kind of joke to be funny. Because I'm not relieving tension. It's not a 'laugh so you don't cry' thing, it's a 'yeah I intellectually get that that is a joke' reaction.

 

[PoppingTom]

Yeah. Sad. People who are in favor of more strict gun control find it sad because it's a gun based tragedy, like you're suggesting. People who are in favor of current conceal and carry laws think it's sad because that kid has to deal with that shit regardless of who was at fault. ...... But now there's a baby involved so that throws off the whole 'ability to joke about it' thing.

And that's the joke. I would prefer to not laugh about it, I would prefer to show respect for the tragedy. I would prefer to shout "WHAT ELSE SHOULD HAPPEN TILL YOU REALIZE THE GUN CRAZINESS AS A THREAD?", but I'm long enough into discussions about it to know nothing will change, in fact most people fear more anything couild change regarding this.

It's not easy to laugh about it. But what else shall I do?