Posted on 02/28/2005 6:49:00 AM PST by ShadowDancer
Police Say 5-Year-Old Boy Accidentally Shot Mother
Gun's Recoil Hit, Wounded Boy In Forehead
UPDATED: 9:31 am EST February 28, 2005
FORT WORTH, Texas -- A Texas mother is hospitalized in fair condition after police say her 5-year-old son shot her in the back.
A police spokesman said the boy found his parents' 9 mm pistol in the master bedroom of their south Fort Worth home late Sunday afternoon.
Police Lt. Gene Jones said the boy fired one round through the chair in which his mother was sitting while working on the family computer. Jones said investigators believe the shooting was accidental.
Police said the boy's father and 14-year-old brother were in another room and called police.
The woman was airlifted to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. The gun's recoil hit and wounded the boy in the forehead. He was taken by ambulance to Cook Children's Medical Center, where he was treated for the wound and discharged.
The boy's father works for the Tarrant County Jail, but the gun was his personal weapon, KXAS-TV in Dallas reported.
Investigators are looking into whether to charge the parents
I'm glad everyone here at least from the article looks like they will be ok... but this is beyond stupidity.
Anyone who's been around young boys, knows they are drawn to guns like moth to flames.... Leaving a loaded weapon anywhere where they can remotely get access to it is just asking for a bad situation.
Dad needs to be slapped for this one. Leaving his (apparently) loaded pistol lying around.... Sheesh!
I would charge the parents.
Hope she is okay. Prayers.
By age 5 my daughter and son had basic firearm safety training as presented by me. The demonstration of shooting a melon with hollow points is especially effective in explaining what happens to a human.
A loaded weapon in a loose in a house with dhildren. The bulb burns dimly...
Every right endowed to us by our creator also comes with a host of responsibilities.
The parents here fell considerably short of their responsibilities. How much time, money, and human life could be saved if people treated their rights as "rights" (with inherent responsibilities) instead of "entitlements" which carry no burden of responsibility with them.
I have long thought that one of the problems with people in this country is they get "rights" and "entitlements" confused.
"Anyone who's been around young boys, knows they are drawn to guns like moth to flames.... Leaving a loaded weapon anywhere where they can remotely get access to it is just asking for a bad situation."
There were loaded guns, or guns with access to ammuntion in my parents house and in the houses of many of my friends.
We knew better than to touch those guns without supervision.
There are lots of dangerous items around the average houshold. You do need to preventative measures, but the most important one is education.
I tried to find some more info on the location (it's not in the FW paper for some reason) because it sure did look like my neighborhood on the news. Does anybody know where this was?
It be agin the law in Texas to leave a loaded weapon within the reach of children....
Then, electrifying the weapon to the tune of 120 volts.
Then go ahead and explain the handgun vending machines at every Texas school cafeteria? Huh, smart guy?
A can of tomato juice works well too. It shows them that gun shot wounds in reality are a lot different than those in the movies. There is no way the juice can be put back in the can, or the melon reassembled.
I'm sorry at toddler age, to maybe 5 or 6 years old, all the education in the world is not going to solve stupidity. Children are children, and they do things they KNOW they aren't supposed to do at times. That's why they have PARENTS.... Even the most obedient kid is tempted and capitulates to temptation.
As it should be.
Exactly. My kids were in a house of guns. Many in the safe but a few out in places that they knew about. They are now adults and are well on their way to houses of guns. I regularly go shooting with them. I trained them well. Some day I get to teach the grandkids.
From this example it's clear to me we need to outlaw handguns /sarcasm off
My kids were all well aware of what a gun could do to a living creature as they went hunting with us from a pretty early age and were certainly taught about guns. However, they were kids. So, all guns were kept out of their reach and we never kept one loaded, and the ammo was kept seperate. Because, had they ever decided to just check one out and hurt themselves, or someone else, I would not have been able to forgive myself. Because it would have been MY fault.
sundero
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