Girl mistakes gun for Wii controller - kills herself

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Soriku said:

This is terrible...the bad thing is these type of stories can happen all the time...

trashleg said:

lets accept for a second that

- the wiimote DID look like a gun, and
- the little girl had been playing the wii

what the hell is a 3-year-old doing playing violent games? may not sound like much of a big deal, but i'd say that's bad parenting as it is.

lazy-ass parents. no doubt feeling absolutely awful now, but that was such a careless thing.

who lets a baby play with a fucking gun?

This comment, along with this pic, just looks so weird :P

So it seems like Irony wins another round. PS: Instant win on the Graces photos.

Anyway, on topic:

It's a sad fate for the kid, and I feel bad that it had to turn out that way. But a loaded gun? On a table? Which he left there by putting it down and then taking a nap? And the mother wasn't with the kid at all or obviously not watching? Negligence at least. My mother watched my sister like a hawk for the longest time. You never know what they can get into at that age.

But even as someone who doesn't and doesn't need to own a gun, it seems like banning them altogether isn't the way to go. Considering a gun is just a tool for murder, doesn't mean that there's not other ways to get results. Stricter? Deffinitely. Removal? Probably wouldn't work out as well as people think.

But if a news company think that pinning this on a gaming console is the way to go, there's an serious issue.