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Showing Original Post only (View all)Woman shot, killed at Walmart in Idaho by two-year-old son [View all]
Source: Reuters
Woman shot, killed at Walmart in Idaho by two-year-old son
Tue Dec 30, 2014 5:24pm EST
(Reuters) - A woman was accidentally shot and killed at a Walmart store in northern Idaho on Tuesday when her 2-year-old son pulled a loaded handgun from her purse that then went off, a county sheriff said.
The 29-year-old woman was shopping at a Walmart in Hayden, Idaho, with the toddler seated in her shopping cart when the incident occurred, Kootenai County Sheriff Ben Wolfinger said in a written statement.
Sheriff's officials said investigators were still processing the scene of the shooting, which took place shortly after 10 a.m. in the store's electronics department.
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Tue Dec 30, 2014 5:24pm EST
(Reuters) - A woman was accidentally shot and killed at a Walmart store in northern Idaho on Tuesday when her 2-year-old son pulled a loaded handgun from her purse that then went off, a county sheriff said.
The 29-year-old woman was shopping at a Walmart in Hayden, Idaho, with the toddler seated in her shopping cart when the incident occurred, Kootenai County Sheriff Ben Wolfinger said in a written statement.
Sheriff's officials said investigators were still processing the scene of the shooting, which took place shortly after 10 a.m. in the store's electronics department.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/30/us-usa-idaho-gun-idUSKBN0K81I820141230
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With what other inanimate object thst is also a killing machine can a two year old kill an adult with?
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
#1
Even safer is when melted down to make toys that do not kill their parents.
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
#30
The fact that 300,000,000 guns in civilian hands is bound to lead to untold tragedy is math
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#40
Some of your own "patient efforts" to that end include touting non-existent gun deaths:
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2015
#56
Guns should come with a hazardous goods warning label and "Danger While Owning" label as well.
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
#17
Folks are so forgetful when they get busy, having guns around turns forget into dead.
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
#11
Only a firearm can cause an accidental death by a toddler, preventable deaths by the thousands.
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
#18
What? The NRA argument of "you die anyway, what does it matter if it is a gun" is a fool's mantra.
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
#22
You have been blocked? Hmmmm....did not know that...why are so many of you safe haven lovers
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#41
Being blocked by a claque of wannabe Dantons and Robespierres is hardly shameful
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2015
#59
Making firearms central to your life also makes them central to your tragically premature death.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#42
Hey, don't blame me for your bannings for gun loving comments, I was not even here.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#45
"I was not even here." True, "Fred Sanders" wasn't. As for the real person behind the name?
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2015
#57