Posted on 04/30/2014 4:30:18 PM PDT by eccentric
Wichita Police say a toddler died after he was accidentally shot by his four-year-old brother.
Just before 2 p.m. Tuesday, 911 received a call about a shooting. The caller was extremely upset, and dispatchers were unable to get a location from the man. Moments later, two men showed up at Wesley Medical Center with a 1-year-old child who had been shot in the chest.
Police say three children: a four-year-old boy, a three-year-old girl and a 19-month old boy, were in a bedroom when the oldest child opened a nightstand that contained a loaded 9mm handgun. Lt. Todd Ojile says the child didn't pick up the gun, but was able to pull the trigger.
The 19-month-old, Tomarion, was standing near the nightstand and was shot in the chest.
The 33-year-old father of the children and his 22-year-old brother were in the living room when the shooting happened. Both men took the child to the hospital, where he died about 45 minutes later.
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they were playing cops and doggies and somehow got hold of a real weapon
Unsupervised kids and an unsupervised weapon.
If there are children in the house, a gun owner might want to consider, on a voluntary basis, one of the many safe storage options available at modest cost.
It is a simple matter of risk management. The chances of somebody breaking into your house is a lot smaller than an unattended child rummaging through your nightstand.
I am currently on a business trip and brought my family. I don't always bring security gear for my pistol, but I did on this trip.
Sad. RIP.
Poor kids. Both the one who died and the one who pulled the trigger.
This same old story just keeps happening. My husband’s uncle shot his baby sister (with a gun that their father thought was “hidden” in the bedroom closet). The uncle was only 5 yrs. old at the time. The family ran out with the baby to the hospital, leaving the traumatized shooter child hiding behind the couch - after shouting at him, “You’ve KILLED your sister!” - Well, the baby survived; but the uncle only lived a few more years with a horrible bowel condition, then died. The husband also died from lung cancer; was a smoker and a doctor told him that if he didn’t quit, his lungs were in such a poor condition that it would kill him. He was 32; the uncle was 9 yrs. old when he died, the baby girl lived to be 48 and died of cancer. The mother had thought it unwise to hide the gun in the closet on a top shelf; but the man, as many were at that time, could not be TOLD anything by a woman. This is a story that not many in the family will tell; but I will. Lives weren’t destroyed by a gun; they were destroyed by wrong-headedness and contrariness.
A 9mm?
Why was there a round in the chamber?
I have my CHL and always carry, but I do not chamber a round unless I mean to fire the weapon.
“... This same old story just keeps happening ...”
... not many in the family will tell; but I will ...”
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In 1941, a four year old toddler was shot in the neck and killed.
I was born 10 years later.
Had that toddler lived he would have been my older brother.
My mama’s first husband and his bootlegger business partner
were half arguing / half playing with a pistol.
Such stories are not new to society, but the media and
the anti-gun folks would like for everyone to think so.
My boys were taught that a gun is dangerous and should not be aimed towards people unless you're in danger.
That said, my boys are great shots.
Too much, though; through carelessness and hard headedness.
I hasten to say, though, that GUNS are not the problem. In communities where everybody was armed, outlaws didn’t last long. I’m not advocating disarming law abiding citizens.
An automatic with a round in the chamber and the weapon cocked?
It wasn’t the best of neighborhoods....
OK people, why don’t you keep an automatic cocked all the time?
First of all, I don't have an "automatic", I have a "semi-automatic".
And second, I do have a round in the chamber all the time!
The standard SA/DA semi automatic pistol user implements the "de-cocker" which places the weapon in a "first shot DA" mode.
Good chance that if you need your firearm you will not have the time or opportunity to chamber a round. Just sayin’.
Any method of storage or carry is going to be a trade-off between speed, security and comfort. There are a lot of ways to solve that problem, depending on the situation and what is important to the individual.
The commonality of these stories. Most are not NRA members but rather gang bangers.
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