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5 year old boy shoots his sister with his own rifle

  • 01-05-2013 07:44PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,335 ✭✭✭✭UrbanSea


    I thought I'd misread this article, namely the bits in bold.

    Yup, you have to love the American's defence of their gun laws. I never even knew that there was such a thing as a children's rifle. Only in America eh?
    (Don't worry though, Kinder eggs are illegal due to choking hazards, but real fire guns are okay for youths)


    A five-year-old has accidentally shot dead his two-year-old sister as he played with his own rifle.

    The tragedy happened on Tuesday afternoon at a home in southern Kentucky.

    Cumberland County coroner Gary White told the Lexington Herald-Leader it was "just one of those crazy accidents."

    The boy had picked up the .22-calibre Crickett gun, which he was given as a birthday present last year
    , when it went off.

    Police said the family did not realise it was loaded. The children's mother was at home at the time but had just stepped away.

    "She was actually cleaning her house, and she had went out on the porch," the coroner told WKYT-TV.

    "She said no more than three minutes had went by and she actually heard the rifle go off. She ran back in and found the little girl."

    The child was pronounced dead at Cumberland County Hospital. Doctors worked on reviving her for about an hour without success.

    The coroner said the shooting would be ruled as accidental.



    http://news.sky.com/story/1085554/boy-5-kills-sister-2-with-childrens-rifle


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Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,313 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Accidental? Bloody clear cut case for Social Services if ever I saw one.

    To think some parents oppose giving toy guns to 5 year olds!

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    That's so sad.

    Seriously though....a 5 year old with a rifle.....that's even sadder!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,676 ✭✭✭✭herisson


    What an awful thing to happen. The poor girl and her family. My condolences to them. :(

    I would just love to know who in their right mind would think a gun is a perfect present to give a 5 year old. Its ridiculous.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭grizzly


    If you're going to give a 4 year old a rifle, it's probably a blessing that he'll help wipe out your family gene pool.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭lkionm


    I'll be shooting someone with my pistol tonight as well.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Who on earth thought it would be a good idea to launch a range of guns that were marketed at kids?

    America's double standards baffle me sometimes. Gambling is seen as a major no no but yet arming children is somehow ok.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    Absolutely tragic story, RIP.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    grizzly wrote: »
    If you're going to give a 4 year old a rifle, it's probably a blessing that he'll help wipe out your family gene pool.

    Don't be a díck.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,590 ✭✭✭theteal


    this story has to be a month late? cannot be true. . .

    staggering stuff


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭lkionm


    SV wrote: »
    Don't be a díck.

    díckception


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭crazygeryy


    the right to bear arms or the right to arm bears
    whatever the hell you want to do its america.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Are they ****ing stupid over there or what? Every week there seems to be a new story like this, if not a shooting in a school.

    Imbeciles.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,134 ✭✭✭✭Rayne Wooney


    Can't read the article right now, but why was the gun loaded :confused:??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭vitani


    Can't read the article right now, but why was the gun loaded :confused:??

    Because the parents are fucking idiots.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 84 ✭✭lanyard


    UrbanSea wrote: »
    The boy had picked up the .22-calibre Crickett gun, which he was given as a birthday present last year[/B], when it went off.

    JKust had a look and Crickett's are aimed at child.

    http://www.crickett.com/

    They should really change their website.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭lkionm


    Can't read the article right now, but why was the gun loaded :confused:??

    Because 'Murica, thats why.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,776 ✭✭✭Jhcx


    Dafuq is that true? Christ, think my jaw just fell off. how dafuq is this real? Are people really that stupid to be giving gun's as presents.


  • Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    This is such a tragic story. That child will suffer so much torment for the rest of their life, through no fault of their own.

    Who in their right mind would allow their child to hold a loaded weapon, supervised or not? Why, oh why would there be a law allowing it too?

    The US government love jumping on their high horse when footage of children carrying weapons in Africa is shown. Won't hear their outrage over this.

    So sad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 899 ✭✭✭StickyIcky


    When I first read this article I thought that five year old boy could have been me. Or you.

    I pity him having to grow up knowing he accidentally killed his own sister. With what he probably thought was a toy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,134 ✭✭✭✭Rayne Wooney


    The stupidity level required to give a 5 year old a real gun as a present is one thing, but to give the child said gun to play with and not checking if it's loaded or not is just going full retard.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,440 ✭✭✭✭endacl




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,494 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    I had to go and search for Crickett guns because I thought it wasn't an actual thing

    It is an actual thing

    "Quality Firearms for America's Youth"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    What's wrong with a responsible child having their own rifle once they are old enough to know how to use it safely?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    The US government love jumping on their high horse when footage of children carrying weapons in Africa is shown.
    That's pretty different, you must admit. Those are warzones, and warlords who wipe out villages, rape women and girls, and the children are given a weapon and indoctrinated into the regime.

    We had a BB Rifle when I was a youngster. Quite a bit different from a real .22 though. Had an apple tree out back that made excellent practice, but those BBs are essentially non-lethal even at point blank they won't penetrate denim (and I know that because my brother is a dick - and he did that when we were all adults btw). I can't follow the necessity for a child of that age to own a full working firearm, or at that, how in the world a parent let them use it for any length of time unsupervised 3 minutes or not, or how they let them do so without clearing the chamber. If you have some convoluted reasons to give them a firearm like that it needs to be under the strictest imaginable supervision.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭Bob the Seducer


    lanyard wrote: »
    JKust had a look and Crickett's are aimed at child.

    http://www.crickett.com/

    They should really change their website.

    Couldn't resist clicking through...

    The kids corner is a gallery of photos of children with the gun including a baby in combat gear... it also comes in pink for girls I see.

    If I were to facepalm as hard as the situation requires, I'd give myself a concussion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,440 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Sky King wrote: »
    What's wrong with a responsible child having their own rifle once they are old enough to know how to use it safely?
    So, so many things...

    1. What's a 'responsible child'?
    2. How old is 'old enough'?
    3. What is 'safely'?
    4. FFS.


  • Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Cassidy Teeny Tarantula


    Kids in switzerland can use them from age 12, can't they
    5 seems a bit young. In any case, it's clear the parents didn't teach him, supervise him, or any of the rest of it

    tragic story


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    endacl wrote: »
    So, so many things...

    1. What's a 'responsible child'?
    2. How old is 'old enough'?
    3. What is 'safely'?
    4. FFS.

    They can operate it under supervision can't they?

    I don't condone giving loaded firearms to toddlers but ffs, lets not blame the firearm manufacturer (as a lot of people on here seem to be doing).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,313 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Sky King wrote: »
    What's wrong with a responsible child having their own rifle once they are old enough to know how to use it safely?

    Well I suppose some could make an argument for that, but I doubt anybody would argue that applies in this case.

    I'd have thought some law was broken here, 4 year olds can't be allowed to have rifles without serious consequences for those who fail to supervise them. It's more than stupidity and accidental, it's grossly negligent.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,409 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Just had a look at Crikett's website too..

    Oh my god. I honestly cannot believe it, rifles aimed at children? It sickens me. how can they call themselves a civilised country?


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