Newsflash: Loaded guns and toddlers don’t mix.
In other news… saying something will never happen to you, typically begets negative results.
Just ask these parents:
In Las Vegas some heat packing parents are hoping beyond hope that their 2-year-old daughter will survive after being shot by their 4-year-old. According to police, the girl is in critical condition while the father remains in custody for allegedly leaving a improperly secured loaded gun laying around in the family’s home.
In South Carolina, a 3-year-old boy shot his 4-year-old brother with a gun he allegedly found under the bed at the home of a “family friend.” Reports say the older boy is expected to make a full recovery. Police say the 4-year-old is “very lucky” to be alive.
Meanwhile, the kids’ parents say they never thought “anything like this” would happen to them.
Ditto for the Las Vegas parents.
The incident in Las Vegas happened three days ago after the girl’s brother found a loaded 9mm handgun inside their home. Police say the boy was apparently playing with the gun when it went off and hit his sister in the torso.
By the way, the aforementioned incidents come less than a week after a five-year-old Las Vegas boy died after shooting himself in the head with his dad’s gun.
Police say the boy found a handgun inside his father’s car outside a Las Vegas pharmacy and killed himself while playing with the firearm.
The father in that case has been charged with child endangerment.
Two questions: What parent leaves a loaded 9mm handgun out where his toddler can get to it?
AND
What parent, upon learning that his child shot another tells police that he didn’t bother hiding his loaded gun because he figured there was “no way” his kids would “mess with” his “stuff?”
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