Only thing that stops a bad toddler with a gun
by Tom Sullivan
They say admitting you have a problem is the first step in solving it. From the New York Times:
She had been napping in bed with her father, Courtenay Block, late last month when she discovered the 9-millimeter handgun he often kept under his pillow in his Kansas City, Mo., home. It was equipped with a laser sight that lit up like the red lights on her cousins’ sneakers. Mr. Block told the police he woke to see Sha’Quille by his bed, bleeding and crying, the gun at her feet. A bullet had pierced her skull.
In a country with more than 30,000 annual gun deaths, the smallest fingers on the trigger belong to children like Sha’Quille.
During a single week in April, four toddlers — Holston, Kiyan, Za’veon and Sha’Quille — shot and killed themselves, and a mother driving through Milwaukee was killed after her 2-year-old apparently picked up a gun that had slid out from under the driver’s seat. It was a brutal stretch, even by the standards of researchers who track these shootings.
.@KagroX 10 year old TN boy shoots self in stomach. Little sister calls 911 #GunFAIL https://t.co/UTQHz17YJU
— That Guy (@ThatGuy3002) April 29, 2016
3 year old #Gunfail s himself and lives. That makes it a #FeelGood story in America https://t.co/6U4XyhG4tV
— CoCo (@HeadOColettuce) April 28, 2016
Bad: Now there's another mom shot in the back while driving after her toddler finds a loaded gun: https://t.co/VXLk1Zn85F @KagroX #gunFAIL
— Mededitor (@Mededitor) April 27, 2016
In a slight change of pace, 3yo Holston Cole killed himself with a gun he found in his father's book bag. https://t.co/XP4JQ1pBkB #GunFAIL
— David Waldman (@KagroX) April 27, 2016
The woman driving through Milwaukee was not the first this year shot in the back by her kid while driving.
Jamie Gilt mocked #gunsense
— Political_Moll (@Political_Moll) March 9, 2016
Now she's a #GunFail https://t.co/1Vgtu5h8Ms
Einstein of the week: Jamie Gilt .@jamiegilt poster child 4 #gun rights shot in back by 4 yo son #GunFAIL #gunsense pic.twitter.com/vMWbq3pQdJ
— BIFF's DOMAIN(S) (@tbturdsday) March 9, 2016