Guns don't kill, people do.

[danmand]

US toddler kills himself with mother's gun


A three-year-old boy has killed himself while playing with his mother's handgun, according to police in Ohio.

The boy shot and fatally wounded himself in the chest after finding the gun at his home near Cincinnati.

In a 911 audiotape release by police, the boy's mother Elizabeth Green is heard reporting the incident.

"My son just shot himself and I'm not getting a pulse," she is heard screaming. Prosecutors are considering whether to charge her.

In the call, she said she keeps the gun in her purse and had set the purse down at home before the tragedy.

"The gun is mine. It is in the house, I carry it in my purse, I laid it down. We just got home," the mother told the 911 operator.

The boy has been identified as Marques Green, according to local media.

A detective was seen leaving the home with a small black handgun, and placing it into an evidence bag.

This is the second accidental shooting death of a child this month in this region of Ohio.

About 100 children die in the US every year in accidental shootings, according to data compiled by Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.

 

[Occasionally]

Yikes.

Notice how you never hear about someone accidentally knifing themself, hitting themself over the head with a baseball bat or punching themself in the head to death.

But leave it to the ease of guns for 3 year olds to shoot themselves.

Is a 3 year old accidental shooting a record low age?

 

[geeky]

Another sad incident in a long list of them down south. I don't think I'll ever understand the gun mentality.

 

[Indiana]

RIP little angel.

 

[fuji]

This stuff happens too much in the US because you can buy a handgun without having to take a safety course.

While Canadian gun law is too restrictive, there are a few parts of our law that make sense: criminal background checks and mandatory safety courses.

 

[wilbur]

This stuff happens too much in the US because you can buy a handgun without having to take a safety course.

It depends on which state.

There are approximately 85 million handguns in legal possession in the US. Assuming one gun per household, 100 children accidentally killed by guns is a risk of 1 in 850,000.

There there are still penalties for negligence and looks like they will apply in this case. Enforcement is the main compliance tool in the US.

 

[Ridgeman08]

In this case it was the stupid F@#$ing mother! She killed her own son as sure as she pulled the trigger herself.

:frusty:

 

[herbnessman]

Putting aside for a moment her negligence and the relative rarity of these incidents. Where else but in America is it a socially acceptable norm for a mother of a small child to be walking around with a loaded handgun in her purse?

 

[shack]

Where else but in America is it a socially acceptable norm for a mother of a small child to be walking around with a loaded handgun in her purse?

There are approximately 85 million handguns in legal possession in the US. Assuming one gun per household, 100 children accidentally killed by guns is a risk of 1 in 850,000.

Where else but in the US can one rationalize that ooonly 100 deaths of children, considering how many handguns there are, is pretty good.

 

[jcpro]

5. Choking-2500 deaths per year
4. Fires-2700
3. Falls- 25 000
2. Poisoning- 39 000
1. Car crashes- 42 000

Firearm accidents- 600.
US statistics.

 

[Peegies]

5. Choking-2500 deaths per year
4. Fires-2700
3. Falls- 25 000
2. Poisoning- 39 000
1. Car crashes- 42 000

Firearm accidents- 600.
US statistics.

This. If your argument against guns is based on the death rate, might as well ban cars.

Fact is, anti gun people are scared of guns, and therefore nobody gets to play with toys

 

[danmand]

5. Choking-2500 deaths per year
4. Fires-2700
3. Falls- 25 000
2. Poisoning- 39 000
1. Car crashes- 42 000

Firearm accidents- 600.
US statistics.

There are about 32,000 gun deaths in the US per year. 1 in 10,000 people

 

[asuran]

This. If your argument against guns is based on the death rate, might as well ban cars.

Fact is, anti gun people are scared of guns, and therefore nobody gets to play with toys

So guns are called toys now?
That's probably what the toddler was thinking.

 

[shack]

There are about 32,000 gun deaths in the US per year. 1 in 10,000 people

Evidently only the accidental ones count when attempting to show how safes gun are.

 

[Titalian]

Evidently only the accidental ones count when attempting to show how safes gun are.

Shack your so shallow, ever wonder what that poor child's mother is thinking right now?

 

[cunning linguist]

Yikes.

Notice how you never hear about someone accidentally knifing themself, hitting themself over the head with a baseball bat or punching themself in the head to death.

But leave it to the ease of guns for 3 year olds to shoot themselves.

Is a 3 year old accidental shooting a record low age?

There isn't an agenda to ban power tools, people just accept the consequences of stupidity in those cases.

 

[asuran]

There isn't an agenda to ban power tools, people just accept the consequences of stupidity in those cases.

Those tools are used to build stuff. Tho these tools can also be use to do dangerous stuff.

Guns, well, it's to shoot and hurt stuff. What else? What is the use of it? As an accessories that make you 'feel' safer because of your fears and insecurities?

 

[GPIDEAL]

It depends on which state.

There are approximately 85 million handguns in legal possession in the US. Assuming one gun per household, 100 children accidentally killed by guns is a risk of 1 in 850,000.

There there are still penalties for negligence and looks like they will apply in this case. Enforcement is the main compliance tool in the US.

100 children dead is still too high a statistic.

They should have safety courses too, like Fuji said.

 

[GPIDEAL]

Where else but in the US can one rationalize that ooonly 100 deaths of children, considering how many handguns there are, is pretty good.

Still too high when considering children, sorry.

If it were adults being stupid (in this case, I suppose we can say that the mother made a very stupid mistake) that shot themselves, perhaps.

 

[GPIDEAL]

Another sad incident in a long list of them down south. I don't think I'll ever understand the gun mentality.

That mentality is that exaggerated concept of freedom, and the archaic or anachronistic, right to bear arms (will American citizens be under attack on their lands by wild animals, enemy tribes or colonial forces or Russians as in that movie, Red Dawn?).

Now everybody is afraid of each other, so gun ownership is almost necessary.