Write The Rest of This 3 Year Old's Life Story....

[Marxist]

....I sure as hell wouldn't dare try to. This is very sad.




Tenn. cop killed by 3-year-old son


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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jan. 4, 2002 |

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A rookie police officer was shot to death by his 3-year-old son, who had grabbed the man's service weapon from a kitchen table.

Joshua Haffner, 22, was pronounced dead early Friday after several hours of surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. He had been flown by helicopter from an airport near his home in Smyrna, about 20 miles to the southeast.

The shooting occurred late Thursday, shortly after Haffner had gotten home from his shift at Nashville's South Sector Precinct, said Sgt. Ken Hampton of the Smyrna Police Department.

"He was taking off his duty equipment and laid his gun on the kitchen table. Apparently while he had his back turned and was talking to his wife, their 3-year-old picked the gun up and shot him," Hampton said.

He was shot once in the upper back with the Glock .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol, Hampton said.

Haffner graduated from Nashville's police academy Nov. 1 and was completing his field training.

"This is something he always talked about, being a police officer," Hampton said.

 

[Svedish_Chef]

Now thats bad luck.

Hope psycs dont get to him and raise the repressed memory. Now that would make sure he grows up fucked up.

 

[PowerOfOne]

*sigh* The story is finished, Marxist, forever. I can only hope and pray that others will see this and lock the guns up. Children are so curious. I am very sad for the entire family and I wish I could take the child in my arms and make all of the nightmares, that will occur, go away.

 

[girl]

I think part of the problem is the pervasiveness of the idea that guns don't kill. Toy guns, tv shows, video games. Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those people who thinks that those things should be banned (well, maybe the toy guns), but this kid had no idea that if he picked up this gun and pointed it at his daddy and went 'bangbang' that his daddy would die. It's very sad. Unfortunately, it's completely predictable.

girl

 

[seXieleXie]

i can't even fathom something like that...

 

[Rubyfruit]

How heartbreaking for everybody involved.

 

[Thumper]

I am thinking

that this officer violated a whole bunch of commonsense rules.

No safety engaged?
A live round chambered?
Leaving it within reach of a child?

This gun must have had a very light trigger for a 3 year old to squeeze off a shot.

Sad...very sad.

That's why I don't need one...accidents happen. Far more often than the off chance someone would break into my home.

 

[Rubyfruit]

I feel the same way, Thumper.

With kids in the house, a gun is a disaster waiting to happen.

 

[Mellon Collie]

Ruby, your av is killing me.

I keep getting distracted.

 

[Rubyfruit]

I'm sorry Mellon Collie. Shall I change it?

I love yours btw.

Oh, but I still miss Ms. Fynn. I actually copied your av then and put in on my wallpaper - it's still there.

 

[Mellon Collie]

I'm sorry Mellon Collie. Shall I change it?

Nooooooooooooooooo!!



And thank you.

 

[AusTess]

I'm one of those people that thinks there's a conspiracy of some kind behind every news story.

My first thought when i read that article?
The wife done it.
Awful,i know,but my mind works in a twisted way.

But you are right,what kind of life is this kid gonna have?
Could you forgive your child for something like that?
Honestly,never to use it against the child later,not harbor a grudge against the kid?

I dont know if i'm the kinda person who could.

 

[Rubyfruit]

How do you let your kid know, over the years, that they killed their father?

It's just too awful to imagine.

I remember reading about a mom putting her infant on top of the stove in her carseat while she went potty (to keep said infant safe from the toddler in the house), and the toddler turned the stove on.

How do you tell you child that they killed their sibling?

There is too much pain in this world sometimes.

 

[Thumper]

I'm one of those people that thinks there's a conspiracy of some kind behind every news story.

My first thought when i read that article?
The wife done it.
Awful,i know,but my mind works in a twisted way.

But you are right,what kind of life is this kid gonna have?
Could you forgive your child for something like that?
Honestly,never to use it against the child later,not harbor a grudge against the kid?

I dont know if i'm the kinda person who could.

The thought crossed my mind...just too cowardly to say it right out. I am sure the detectives have been curious in that regard.

Yes Ruby, you should change the Av....I want to see more

 

[paganangel]

i'm just crying

 

[p_p_man]

Re: I am thinking

that this officer violated a whole bunch of commonsense rules.

No safety engaged?
A live round chambered?
Leaving it within reach of a child?

Thumper, I agree.

But when familiarity breeds contempt, what can you expect?

 

[Mensa]

Re: Re: I am thinking

Thumper, I agree.

But when familiarity breeds contempt, what can you expect?

Your posts are becoming quite familiar.

 

[Andreina]

Re: Re: Re: I am thinking

leaving your ready-to-fire gun on the table isnt the smartest thing either. still, i feel extremely sorry for the boy.

 

[Laurel]

Anyone here read "Deadeye Dick"?

 

[Andreina]

*trying to sneak out of the forum with Laurel's cat under my arm because it is so cute. hoping Laurel won't notice the catnapping*

 

[Laurel]

Nooo!!!

 

[Andreina]

*applying the innocent look I have been practicing for so long*

What's the matter, Laurel?

 

[Cheyenne]

i'm just crying

Why are you crying for this death, because a gun was involved in stead of a drunk driver? Does that make it worse somehow? Dead is dead. I don't understand your hierarchy of how you decide which deaths deserve to have tears and which don't matter.

http://www.literotica.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=57405

 

[MissTaken]

Yes. Death is death, whether accidental and premature or expected and at an "exceptable" age. I hate attending any funeral to hear at least one person say, "They lead a full life."

I read this last night and have not been able to put this story to sleep. The three year old and the family have so much to face on top of their grief.

An option may be for the family to move to an area where it isn't common knowledge and to make a family agreement that the three year old is never to be told what happened.

Is that realistic? Would he still never find out? That is an uncertainty.

I have seen this tact taken with other children who's lives brought on such horror in the early years as to brand them with notoriety before they could even raise their head from mother's breast.

In the case that sticks out at the fore front of my mind, this is working. The child is now six years old and MAY never know what happened in the first year of his life. Likely that it remains that way? I think not.

So the biography of this three year old has no promise, no certainty for his well being. The entire situation is sad regardless of how preventable it may have been.

While I am not opposed to gun ownership, I have none in my home. One busy, careless moment could lead to tragedy.

 

[paganangel]

cheyenne

death is death.
who sid i didn't cry over people being kiled in drunk driving accidents? actually, i think in one of those posts i mentioned being teary.
but sorry, i don't cry over every single story i hear. i guess i'm not perfect. some stories move a person more tha others and that's just the way it is.
thanks for doing keepping up the good work