Six year old shoots teacher

[caryc]

I searched but could not find a thread on this. Anyway I just saw a story on Newsmax. The parents said the gun was secured. Of course they would say that. But if the gun was secured how did the kid get the gun? Newsmax had no info on whether the parents were asked that question. That's the first thing the police would ask the parents, so why are we not privileged to that info? Why didn't they just say that the reporters asked that question but got no answer other than "the gun was secured"? I'm so tired of all this crap. Everybody in the world lies. The gun can't be secured and not secured at the same time. Maybe the six year old kid was an expert locksmith.

 

[Ale-8(1)]

One of several news posts . . .

https://www.yahoo.com/news/lawyer-gun-used-child-shot-160157369.html

 

[trebor44]

"The family also said that the boy "suffers from an acute disability and was under a care plan at the school that included his mother or father attending school with him and accompanying him to class every day."

WOW, how about that spin! Secured gun - how? So many questions, so few "truthful" answers!

 

[RC44Mag]

I wish the gold depository at Ft Knox was as secure as that pistol

 

[Hvymax]

Democrats being Democrats.

 

[caryc]

I wish the gold depository at Ft Knox was as secure as that pistol

There's probably no gold in it anyway. Maybe just a bunch of I.O.U.s

 

[AJGUNNER]

Not much being said about how they missed the handgun when they searched the 6 YEAR OLD earlier in the day. How could you miss this on him or in his backpack?

 

[Hvymax]

"The family also said that the boy "suffers from an acute disability and was under a care plan at the school that included his mother or father attending school with him and accompanying him to class every day."

WOW, how about that spin! Secured gun - how? So many questions, so few "truthful" answers!

It's called being raised by a Single Democrat.

 

[KIR]

Lots of news stories about minors involved in shooting, but practically zero stories about punishments given to adults for the minors getting access to firearms.

 

[vito]

I question how "secure" the gun was that a 6 year old could get to it. On the other hand I have known people who insist that "hiding" their gun in a cardboard shoebox on the shelf of their bedroom closet is enough to keep kids from finding it. But the bigger question, which our society seems unwilling to deal with, is how to handle children who are so mentally disturbed that they pose a serious danger to the rest of us, even when quite young. My wife used to work as a volunteer with an organization that assisted families with children with special needs. One of these children was a 7 year old girl who had tried on several occasions to murder her parents in their sleep, once by trying to jam a sharpened pencil into the back of the neck of her father who fortunately awoke in time to stop her. State authorities intervened and searched nationally for an institution capable of taking a 7 year old homicidal patient, without success anywhere in the country. Now children like this are mainstreamed in schools, often with aides or as in this case, with a parent with them all day. But in reality, we know that this will not be the case for the entire life of the child involved. Some people, even young children, need to be locked away for the safety of the rest of us.

 

[blume357]

I guess I'm the odd person out.... I grew up when none of the guns in the house were secured...... and no one ever got shot.

 

[hittman]

Me too Blume …… the guns were in a cabinet with a glass front right next to the fireplace in the living room.

 

[eveled]

I have a friend whose brother shot and killed their sister with a 12 ga. He was playing with it in the living room. They were all very young. Their dad was the Chief of police. This was in the 60’s.

So @blume357 even though nobody got shot at your house. Lots of kids did get shot back then.

Those were tragic accidents, the subject of this thread was no accident. Knowing their kid is that messed up, they should have been a lot more vigilant. They were supposed to be there, they should have been there.

 

[Hvymax]

I had guns and ammo on the gun rack in my room when I was 8.

 

[Gabe85]

I had guns and ammo on the gun rack in my room when I was 8.

Absolutely, I'll hold the parent responsible for not keeping an eye on the child.

 

[caryc]

Absolutely, I'll hold the parent responsible for not keeping an eye on the child.

It doesn't take much to at least put a trigger lock on a gun. I don't have a gun safe but all my guns have trigger locks on them with one exception. That's the one that stays under my mattress. There are no children in my home. I don't think there has been a minor child in my home in the last 20 years.

 

[turd]

I grew up in a house where the guns were untouchable unless dad offered it to you to hold or look at. You NEVER touched a gun unless the owner said it was OK. At 70 YO I am still that way. I don't pick up other people's guns or gun show or gun shop guns unless it is offered or if I ask first.

 

[KIR]

Unfortunately, children are curious and I still don't understand how my son found my Springfield .22 single shot that I kept in a closet through a trap door in the crawlspace. He told me about it years later. Just wish he had bothered to clean/oil it, along with the stock whenever he used it.

 

[Hvymax]

My kids started learning safe gun handling when they were 3. As soon as they were old enough for toy guns. They shot their first firearms around 5. When they were 8 they were correcting adults at their Hunter Safety Class.