http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/01/another-responsible-gun-owner-leaves-loaded-rifle-out-5-year-old-son-finds-it-kills-baby-sister/
A five-year-old shot and killed his baby sister on Tuesday while playing with a .22 caliber rifle.According to Lex18.com, the NBC news affiliate for Lexington, KY, the incident happened at about 1 p.m. The Cumberland County coroner pronounced the little girl dead after she was taken to the Cumberland County Hospital. An autopsy is scheduled for later today.This is hardly an isolated incident. In Greenville, S.C., in February, a child was shot in the head and killed when he and his sister mistook a loaded pink gun for a toy.Earlier in April, in New Jersey, a six-year-old boy was shot and killed by a four-year-old handling a rifle.
how many more?
granted the parents are at fault for not securing the WMD but had the kid not been exposed to how to use it would he have known to cock point aim and pull the trigger, seems like a lot of steps to kill for a kid.
Forty-eight hours before that, in Tennessee, a sheriff’s deputy was showing off his guns to a relative when his young child came into the room, picked up a loaded gun from the bed, and accidentally killed the sheriff’s wife. In that story, police said that the guns were normally stored in a safe, but that the deputy hadn’t seen his kid come in and pick the gun up, and by the time he could react, it was too late.
Back in December, a father accidentally shot his childwhile trying to put a loaded handgun in his car’s console.
And in Oregon, also earlier this month, a nine-year-old girl was shot in the head while her mother’s boyfriend was cleaning a handgun.Some believe that gun accidents are rare, statistically speaking. However, according to David Frum, in 2007 there were between 15,000 and 19,000 accidental shootings, more than 600 of which were fatal.Furthermore, the number of people either injured or killed in accidental shootings is more than the number of people killed or injured in fires. And 200 people in the U.S. go to the ER every single day with gunshot wounds. Not every month, or every year, every day.
LaPierre can huff and puff till he's blue in the face, people kill people, when you are in the tub did the tub wash you or did you do it, if food is on your plate did the food feed you or did you? get the point if it were not there then these types of killings would not have sought a weapon of convienience because they were unintentional
