Two-Year-Old Dies After Accidentally Shooting Herself Inside Fayetteville Home

[billh58]

Originally posted by Hissyspit in LBN:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014626277

Source: WRAL-TV

Posted: 2:21 p.m. today
Updated: 8:54 p.m. today

Two-year-old dies after accidentally shooting herself inside Fayetteville home

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A 2-year-old girl died Saturday afternoon after she found a loaded handgun and accidentally shot herself, Fayetteville police said.

Officers responding to the home in the 2600 block of Graham Road in reference to a shooting found the girl at about 12:30 p.m. She was taken to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, where she later died.

Fayetteville police have not released her name.

Byron Brown lives next door in the duplex where the shooting happened.

"She would always come to to the fence line and play with my dog. Every time they walked by she would stop by and speak to us and everything," he said.

Read more: http://www.wral.com/girl-2-dies-after-being-shot-inside-fayetteville-home/13015281


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This is my hometown.

[In_The_Wind]

1. .

[Cha]

18. :(

[billh58]

2. Another responsible

gun owner causes an "accident." Nothing to see here folks, because Second Amendment and My Rights, and Freedom. Friendly fire is just the price of Liberty.

[GP6971]

7. And too stupid

to lock it up

[Marie Marie]

3. Another tragically sad story that did not have to happen.

[billh58]

5. How true, but

according to the Gungeoneers it's just another "statistically insignificant" incident, and a small price to pay for NRA-promoted Second Amendment rights.

[BlueJazz]

4. Sweet little girl...gone.

sad

[madrchsod]

6. read this on facebook...

the father will live with his neglect for the rest of his life.

[No Vested Interest]

8. Sad to say, but very often marriages break up when

tragedies occur to the children.
Condolences to all who have to live near these conditions.

[barbtries]

21. whereas his daughter...

has no rest of her life.

[kestrel91316]

28. I have ZERO sympathy for this asshat.

He's a murderer just like a drunk driver who kills is.

[sakabatou]

9. What "responsible" gun-owner leaves a loaded gun around with a kid?

[IkeRepublican]

11. Probably baggars

They have weapons as trophies, not for hunting or home defense.

[mbperrin]

10. NOW can we begin to prosecute people for involuntary manslaughter when they do something stupid that

kills someone else?

Please.

[AtheistCrusader]

17. In many cases, we do.

Though, sometimes the charge is something else, like Criminal Negligence, etc.

[mbperrin]

23. I've never seen such a charge in Texas from a child dying from a gun left around.

Usually the family gets a lot of donation jars at convenience stores and sympathetic local news coverage.

Glad someone somewhere cares.

[AtheistCrusader]

24. I've seen people go to jail for it in Washington State.

Mileage may vary though. A couple did it in Tacoma, and went to jail. A police officer did it in Maple Valley, identical circumstances, didn't go to jail.

[rocktivity]

12. Good thing it was an "accident"

Think of how much worse we'd feel if she'd done it "on purpose..."


rocktivity

[pitbullgirl1965]

13. How is this different then drunk driving?

She meant the world to them. They took care of her. They loved her and everything and for something like this to happen. It's devastating," he added.

Umm hmm. Good responsible parents don't leave lethal weapons around. If they really cared about her, they'd have a gun safe or just get rid of them period. This isn't an accident where you turn your head for one minute and they fall into the pool or run out the door. According to police no charges have been filed and there have been no arrests. The investigation is ongoing.

"They've suffered enough" will be the excuse not to charge them. In a world where parents get their kid taken away for smoking pot, and said kid was murdered in foster care? Pot bad= guns good!

I posted this in the comments section. He does a weekly roundup of these types of incidents. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/19/1246961/-GunFAIL-XL

[barbtries]

22. thanks for posting the link.

it was on DU for a while but apparently not any more.
i'm reading it and seeing one attempted murder and murder after another being written off as an accident. apparently these days you can shoot anyone and then claim it was accidental.

[Lobo27]

14. I wonder how a good guy with a gun would have saved her...

I'm so tired of these horrible deaths...

[jmowreader]

15. I wonder if there's a military tie here

This is one of the neighborhoods that gets sold heavily to GIs.

[jtuck004]

16. Not an accident. Negligent homicide. n/t

[DesertRat]

19. I agree. nt

[kestrel91316]

29. No different than if he had been driving drunk with her as a passenger,

got in an accident, and she died.

[SunSeeker]

20. People need to be educated that guns do not make you safe. They do just the opposite. nt

[bobclark86]

25. Cost of Walmart gun safe: $99

(or the cost of 1/4th of a good handgun, or 4 boxes of hunting ammo)

Cost of losing a child: Unimaginable for not-parents like myself.

Why is this so hard to figure out? Want to stop child shooting accidents without a constitutional amendment and spending billions for the government to buy up every single firearm and starting a bunch of sporadic insurrections?

LOCK UP YOUR SHIT!

[gopiscrap]

26. That poor family, I grieve for them

but also get so fucking pissed at the gun fetish freaks

[kestrel91316]

27. Another "tragic accident" caused by "responsible gun ownership".