Do yourself a favor. Google "3 year old shoots". Nothing else. I know intellectually that this happens far too often, but seeing the sheer number of stories like the following is sobering.

3-year-old fatally shoots deputy’s wife with his gun at Tennessee cookout

A cookout in Tennessee ended in tragedy over the weekend when a 3-year-old child accidentally shot and killed the wife of a Wilson County sheriff’s deputy.

According to WSMV, the toddler found the pistol and discharged it during a gathering at Deputy Daniel Fanning’s residence on Saturday.

Deputies said that 48-year-old Josephine G. Fanning was dead by the time they arrived on the scene. The 3-year-old child was reportedly related to the Fannings.

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Helm also said that alcohol was being consumed at the cookout.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/08/3 ... e-cookout/

I guess the new NRA mantra should say "You can take my gun when you pry it out of the innocent hands of toddlers"

Dammit, more guns could have prevented this!

There have been a number of gun deaths by young children over the past few weeks ~ one would think that law enforcement would be amongst the "responsible gun owners" ~ it's just too horrific ~

Sooz

Another tragic incident took place in New Jersey on Monday evening, when a 4-year-old boy accidentally shot a 6-year-old neighbor with a rifle he found in his parents’ home.

Police said the two boys were playing with a .22-caliber rifle outside the 4-year-old’s home in Toms River, N.J., when around 7:00 p.m. the gun discharged and struck the 6-year-old in the head, NBCNewYork.com reported.


The 4-year-old's parents reportedly heard the shot and called 911.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/09/17671333-two-4-year-olds-two-guns-two-tragic-shootings?lite

Put the gun owners away. Three and four year olds should NOT have access to loaded weapons.

I am sure they are all responsible gun owners. Don't care if they are grieving or not. They are responsible for the incidents.

Each kid should have had a gun.
Fair is fair.

3-year-old Dead After Shooting Self In Sumter home

Posted: Apr 09, 2013 1:50 PM
Updated: Apr 09, 2013 2:36 PM
By Associated Press - bio

SUMTER, S.C. -

Police say a 3-year-old child has died after finding a gun in an apartment in Sumter.

Investigators say someone in the apartment called 911 at around 10 a.m. Tuesday after the child found the gun and pulled the trigger.

The name of the child has not been released.

Police say they are investigating the shooting and have not released any other details. No charges have been filed.

(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

http://www.wspa.com/story/21920673/3-ye ... umter-home

Put the gun owners away. Three and four year olds should NOT have access to loaded weapons.

I am sure they are all responsible gun owners. Don't care if they are grieving or not. They are responsible for MURDER!!!!

In a saner world, they would have failed the required intelligence test for gun ownership.

Hell yeah. While we're at it, give them a bottle of Jack and a smoke!

Now that's what a true "patriot" looks like... uh, no hooch, though.

JUST "SINCE LAST WEEKEND"!!! ~ ~ Sooz

At Least 4 People Were Accidentally Shot By Toddlers Since Last Weekend
By Andrea Peterson on Apr 10, 2013 at 10:45 am

All week, official Washington is fixated on the question of whether the 14 senators who’ve promised to filibuster any gun safety legislation will succeed in their efforts to maintain the status quo. Meanwhile, gun violence continues unabated in the rest of the nation. In a particularly tragic chapter in our nation’s struggle with such violence, at least four people — including two children — were seriously injured or killed since last weekend in accidental shootings where toddlers obtained loaded weapons:

• A Tennessee woman was shot in the stomach by her 2-year-old child on Sunday. Rekia Kid was sleeping with the toddler and her three-week-old baby when the toddler discovered a Glock 9 mm stored underneath her pillow and discharged the weapon. Kid managed to get out of the house and crawl to a neighbor’s porch where she was found by the neighbor, who told local news “[s]he just kept screaming that she didn’t think she was going to make it, she didn’t think she was going to make it and to please please take care of my children.”

• Josephine G. Fanning was shot and killed Saturday at a Tennessee barbecue when a 4-year-old boy discharged a handgun owned by Fanning’s husband, Sheriff’s Deputy Daniel Fanning. Fanning had left the loaded gun “for just a moment” on the bed while he went to retrieve another weapon from a locked gun cabinet.

• A 6-year-old boy was accidentally shot by his 4-year-old playmate in a quiet residential New Jersey area yesterday. The victim later died of his wounds, with the victim’s uncle telling reporters covering the story “This never should have happened. It’s horrible.”

• A 3-year-old died of an accidental self-inflicted gun wound in South Carolina on Tuesday after finding a gun in an apartment and discharging the weapon. No further details have been released at this time.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/04/10/1844121/4-accidental-toddler-shootings/

I wonder. Have these incidents increased maybe because more people were running out to buy guns before "Obama takes them away" among the other scare tatics? Or, since there is the gun control conversation, are these stories becoming more publicized?

Probably the latter.