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3-year-old accidentally shoots mother
ABC News Ch 5 ^

Posted on 03/13/2006 7:15:16 AM PST by On the Road to Serfdom

Police trying to piece together why a gun was stored in a family's couch and how it ended up in a three-year-old's hands.

According to police the boy found the gun in it's hiding place in the couch. When the boy's mother saw her son with the gun she took it from him, removed the clip, and put the gun back in the couch not knowing it was still loaded.

"The three year-old picked up the gun and fired it - there was a round still in the chamber - striking the mother in the knee," St. Paul Police Officer Pete Crum told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS.

An ambulance took the 43-year-old woman took Regions Hospital where she's in fair condition. Investigators plan to forward the case to the Ramsey County Attorney's Office for possible child endangerment charges.

Officer Crum wants this case to serve as a reminder to other gun owners to always lock the slide back, open the chamber up and feel the chamber with their finger before they assume the gun is unloaded.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: banglist; bradywatch; gunsafety; minnesota; wanglist
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To: Graybeard58

She wasn't killed, but she was pretty stupid.


21 posted on 03/13/2006 7:30:00 AM PST by shekkian
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To: Mcirrus

"Anyone stupid enough to hide a gun in the couch with children in the house probably shouldn't be allowed to raise children."

She's beyond stupid. She put it back after the child already found it there.


22 posted on 03/13/2006 7:30:27 AM PST by imskylark
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To: On the Road to Serfdom
Wow, just like on the Soprano's last night.
23 posted on 03/13/2006 7:31:06 AM PST by lormand (...the wrong person came out of the water that fateful night in Chappaquiddick)
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To: MineralMan
Actually, another Freeper confused by not actually reading the story

And you don't read prior comments before making your smart ass comments. I had already been corrected by two members before you commented. I have since acknowledged my mistake.

24 posted on 03/13/2006 7:31:15 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: On the Road to Serfdom

Some life lessons are more costly than others. Grasshopper - have you learned about the round in the chamber? Now you won't forget will you?


25 posted on 03/13/2006 7:31:23 AM PST by jjones9853
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To: On the Road to Serfdom
Safe storage alert.

Different households have different gun storage requirements.

"Secure storage" does not have to mean "inaccessible in a crisis."

Eddie Eagle

Gun Vault

V Line Top Draw

26 posted on 03/13/2006 7:32:51 AM PST by xsrdx (Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
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To: Chiapet

Exactly. To put the gun in the same spot where the 3-year old just found it, it is obvious that he would pick it up again. If her story is true, education might have helped, both knowing how to check the chamber and knowing to treat all guns as loaded. But that is dwarfed by the basic stupidity displayed.


27 posted on 03/13/2006 7:32:59 AM PST by On the Road to Serfdom
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To: Graybeard58

Oh, my mistake. You DID read the story, I guess. Right...


28 posted on 03/13/2006 7:33:46 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: kstewskis

Couches should be banned.


29 posted on 03/13/2006 7:35:02 AM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: Graybeard58

I'm not dead I've only been shot in the knee!

30 posted on 03/13/2006 7:35:44 AM PST by isthisnickcool (Jack Bauer: "By the time I'm finished with you you're going to wish you felt this good again".)
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To: On the Road to Serfdom

As far as I'm concerned, no gun is unloaded until I've verified the breech is clear or the pieces are laid out for cleaning.


31 posted on 03/13/2006 7:36:42 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: On the Road to Serfdom

some semi autos can't fire after removal of a magazine...some can.....

None should be stored in a couch, especially in a home where children have free run of the place.

Patently stupid move on Moms part. She should have won a coveted Darwin award had the tots aim been better.


32 posted on 03/13/2006 7:36:43 AM PST by Vaquero (time again for the Crusades.)
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To: shekkian

Isn't too stupid to live a reasonable diagnosis?


33 posted on 03/13/2006 7:36:56 AM PST by Kimmers
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To: On the Road to Serfdom

Was the kid's name "Stewie", by any chance?


34 posted on 03/13/2006 7:37:11 AM PST by Tree of Liberty (requiescat in pace, President Reagan)
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To: bboop

LOL!!


35 posted on 03/13/2006 7:37:27 AM PST by kstewskis (don't get me started...)
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To: trubluolyguy

Some people are just morons. I would think the police would notify child services as this woman doesnt seem to have her act together. Hasnt she heard of gun locks? Why on earth would you put a gun in a couch? That seems very odd to me.


36 posted on 03/13/2006 7:38:04 AM PST by pandoraou812 (dilligaf and barbaric !)
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To: On the Road to Serfdom

Wow! Knee capping by the age of three! This little tyke has a future in "Waste Management Disposal" (wink, wink)


37 posted on 03/13/2006 7:38:05 AM PST by SAMS (Nobody loves a soldier until the enemy is at the gate; Army Wife & Marine Mom)
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To: Blue Jays

"It is not a clip, it is a MAGAZINE!"\


yes....yes it is. But getting this terminology right is the least of the MSM's problems.


39 posted on 03/13/2006 7:39:13 AM PST by Vaquero (time again for the Crusades.)
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To: trisham
I suppose she could eventually die.

I would say that she will certainly die someday.

40 posted on 03/13/2006 7:39:32 AM PST by kaboom
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