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twesterm on 08 March 2010

God I hope they don't blame this on games and not on the dumb-shit stepfather that left a loaded gun where a three year old could get a hold of it.

There's absolutely no excuse for that and I hope they charge him for manslaughter.

It's perfectly fine to own guns, but:

  1. You should be taught in gun safety
  2. Don't fucking leave it loaded
  3. Leave it locked somewhere so that only the people who you want can have access to it


 

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Gilgamesh on 08 March 2010
famousringo said:
So, in Tennessee you can leave a loaded firearm within reach of an unsupervised child and face no charges if that child hurts somebody with it?

Come. On.

Oh she wasn't unsupervised, the mother was in the same room as the child...



Ghazi4 on 08 March 2010

it was funny before i realized she was 3 years old :P




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CommonMan on 08 March 2010

Smart move, daddy. Seriously, classes before you buy guns people. I have a firearms certificate on my license, everyone should before they are allowed to own one.



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huaxiong90 on 08 March 2010
haxxiy said:
PS3 cures cancer. X360 contollers are used by the military and people kill themselves because of the Wii. Decide for yourself who is the good guy in this tale :P :P

Not the time for these jokes, dude.

 

OT: What kind of idiotic parent leaves a gun on the table of the living room?

 

*Sigh* This is terrible news. Truly sorry for the parent's loss, but they have nobody to blame but theirselves.



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Enmity on 08 March 2010

Gilgamesh said:

According to the stepfather, the gun was out because he had heard a prowler and gotten the gun out earlier that evening. He then left the gun on the table in the living room.

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So in case someone breaks into the house they don't need to bring their own guns anymore?



nordlead on 08 March 2010

the parents are 100% to blame for this. Regardless of what happened, leaving a loaded gun on a table in the family room is irresponsible and dangerous for anyone.

In this case, at 3 y.o. children have a hard time differentiating things. Today toy guns have to be different colors, but that is only so police don't shoot children who are playing, not so children know which guns are real.




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stof on 08 March 2010

This story has nothing to do with the Wii.



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dahuman on 08 March 2010

YOU DO NOT PUT A FUCKING GUN ON THE TABLE WHERE CHILDREN ARE PRESENT! IT'S CALLED FUCKED UP PARENTING! WHAT ASSHOLES!



bmmb1 on 08 March 2010

This has nothing to do with the Wii and everything to do with leaving a gun unattended.

Plus something is fishy here, if I were an investigator I would try to dig deeper into this - since when does someone point a Wii controler shaped like a gun at one's abdomen, even if they think it is a Wii controller? And before you say well this is a 3 year old, think a second - a 3 year old that knows how to pull a trigger? Something is wrong here, and I have this horrible feeling it is not the child that has pulled the trigger.



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