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A two-year-old Florida boy died on Wednesday after accidentally shooting himself with his fathers .380 caliber handgun that he found in the family car.
The toddler, Kaleb Ahles, climbed into the front seat of the familys vehicle while his parents carried boxes to move out of their home in Tarpon Springs, located about 30 miles north-west of Tampa.
Kaleb, alone in the car, crawled across the seat and found the gun that was stored in the glove compartment, sheriff Bob Gualtieri of the Pinellas County sheriffs office said during a Wednesday evening press conference.
Kaleb then grabbed the gun, turned the barrel toward his chest, and squeezed the trigger, Gualtieri said.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/22/florida-toddler-fatally-shoots-himself-father-gun
So sad - please gun owners, secure your weapons properly.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)IBGTGTPIAWAA.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Almost too horrific to imagine the scene, the innocence of the child as he pulled the "toy" out of the glove compartment.
Skittles
(160,724 posts)the parents should be charged but they've already paid a penalty worse than anything that could be imposed on them
marym625
(17,997 posts)They wouldn't be having to face this tragedy if they took proper precautions. And a child would still be alive.
They should face charges for his death
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)killing potential of their killing machines and BE "responsible gun owners", double with kids around.
How many children are killed by guns as opposed to having their lives saved by them, I wonder?
marym625
(17,997 posts)Or to Skittles? You and I agree on this
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)sentencing principles would take that into account.
marym625
(17,997 posts)Skittles
(160,724 posts)I just noted how tragic and senseless gun humping can be
I guess I read it wrong. It was the way it was worded.
Sorry
marym625
(17,997 posts)Losing their child is punishment enough, no charges will be forthcoming.
Only time that happens is when black parents with a kid, on the south or west side of Chicago, dies this way.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)loaded killing machine set to "Tragedy"?
marym625
(17,997 posts)But they didn't use to charge parents for child abuse either. Maybe somewhere, soon, things will change
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Matrosov
(1,098 posts)that the real problem was the child wasn't even more armed, so he could've shot himself with the other gun to prevent himself from shooting himself with the one from the glove compartment.
Did that make any sense? No? That's the NRA for you lol
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)The NRA would actually say there would be no shooting if their training had been followed.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)It shouldn't have been locked IMHO
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)Just pointing it out so that no one is surprised if a lock eventually comes.
marym625
(17,997 posts)Not right
PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)please feel free to lock.
Thank you.
MineralMan
(148,151 posts)The forum hosts, in consensus, have decided that this post does not fit the the GD Statement of Purpose.
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Phentex
(16,578 posts)what happened?