Posted on 01/24/2006 12:01:35 PM PST by zaxxon
GERMANTOWN, Md. (AP) -- A gun brought to a day care center by an 8-year-old boy accidentally went off Tuesday, wounding a 7-year-old girl in the arm, police said.
The boy had the gun in a backpack and was playing with it when it went off at the For Kids We Care center, Montgomery County police spokesman Derek Baliles said.
The girl was taken to Children's Hospital in Washington, he said. Her injury was not considered life-threatening.
There were six children in the center at the time of the shooting, which happened around 7 a.m. No one else was hurt.
Officers were interviewing the boy Tuesday afternoon to find out how he got the weapon and how it was fired. Police also plan to talk to the other children and to the boy's parents.
Names of the children, both from Germantown, a suburb of Washington, were not released. They were dropped off by their parents at the center, which provides care before school hours as well as daylong care for younger children.
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"Police also plan to talk to the other children and to the boy's parents."
I'm betting "parents" = "parent". Singular.
There are a hell of a lot of gun-related stories in the news lately. I'll be looking for a major push for more gun control this year.
The flurry of gun "protection" laws from this should be interesting.
Sheesh! The boy's parents are in big trouble on this one. Yes, parents have a responsibility to secure the firearms in their home, or teach their brats to keep their hands off them.
Looks like this kid's parents failed on both counts.
I hope your right, the republicans could use another big electoral victory if the dems try to take away peoples guns again.
The law should be if your kid gets a gun from your home and is caught you are prosecuted. No more control please it does not work.
Why? Many of the kids who've shot and killed classmates at school came from two-parent homes. Kip Kinkel even killed his two parents first, before heading off to shoot up the school.
"accidentally went off"
Love it......went off. Sheesh.
What are the real statistics on accidental shootings in the U.S.
Some people have been tossing around a lot of statistics here (Canada) to support the Liberal hand gun ban. (Even though the Liberals were defeated, this is sure to come up again.)
For instance, some said that 2/3 of those shot in home invasions were actually family members, who were shot accidently.
That are the true facts? (Not the fake but true facts.)
I'm betting it is butt whipping time.
"I'm betting "parents" = "parent". Singular."
That was my first thought or else it will be mom and her live in boyfriend....
Careful. The last time a child was shot in day care I made a similar comment and was told it was a "new low" for free republic because there was nothing in the article that it was a single parent.
I was up late last night, I am tired.
When you hear about a kid shooting another kid, single parent households appear most often (by my observations).
You may be able to cite a few cases of kids killing at school (very rare), but every other "child" violence statistic goes the other way. Most of them are inner-city kids with a single parent in the household, and a marginal parent, at that.
The boy who killed a 6 year-old girl in Flint, Michigan had taken his drug-dealing cousin's pimp gun while his single mother was riding the bus to her token "workfare" job.
Gee, thanks. I'm a single mom, and my son never shot anyone.
Also, I believe the Columbine killers came from 2 parent homes.
Or perhaps estranged.
Not necessarily. Look at all the cases of kids going to schools and intentionally killing people, most came from a two-parent household.
Most of these accidents that happen could have been avoided if the child had been taught basic gun safety.
We live in a rural area and gun safety is pretty much taught from the cradle here. We also have not had any accidental shootings in our county since this deer hunter had a seizure, feel from a stand and the gun accidentally discharged, hitting him.
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