11/27/2020

[Dream]

though it's almost midnight here a chat should exist.


I just got word that my cousin's three-year-old got hold of a gun at her house and shot himself. He's alive and alert. Apparently he shot near his lip and the bullet is currently lodged near his brain stem and they don't want to remove it. I'm assuming them not wanting to remove it means it's not a lead bullet. He's got a long stay in the hospital ahead of him most likely as they have to reconstruct his jaw.

Just an FYI if anyone has any guns and kids in their house, they don't fucking mix well, and I've honestly been expecting something like this to happen for years now. I was hoping I'd be wrong, though.

[DancesWithWerewolves]

though it's almost midnight here a chat should exist.


I just got word that my cousin's three-year-old got hold of a gun at her house and shot himself. He's alive and alert. Apparently he shot near his lip and the bullet is currently lodged near his brain stem and they don't want to remove it. I'm assuming them not wanting to remove it means it's not a lead bullet. He's got a long stay in the hospital ahead of him most likely as they have to reconstruct his jaw.

Just an FYI if anyone has any guns and kids in their house, they don't fucking mix well, and I've honestly been expecting something like this to happen for years now. I was hoping I'd be wrong, though.

Holy shit

[showa58taro]

The US obsessions with cowboy justice is so fucking perverse. Shouldn’t gevoarents go to jail for negligent gun storage or so no thing? Or is it genuinely so backwards that the 2A nuts insist this is just the price of freedom?

[Dream]

The US obsessions with cowboy justice is so fucking perverse. Shouldn’t gevoarents go to jail for negligent gun storage or so no thing? Or is it genuinely so backwards that the 2A nuts insist this is just the price of freedom?

They should. There were between six and seven loaded guns in the house that the kids could reach, I can't get a clear number from family and I don't think they know because semantics are coming into play (police found six guns vs police found six other guns)

This is the press release:
Press release just issued by Franklin County Sheriff Shannon Oliver:
At approximately 11:47 AM on Friday November 27, 2020, Law Enforcement and emergency crews have responded to an accidental shooting of a three year old in the Isbell community just outside of Russellville. A preliminary investigation conducted by The Franklin County Sheriff's Office Investigative Division has determined the toddler, along with other children inside the residence, were eating at a table. The child left and picked up a gun resulting in a self-inflicted, accidental discharge of the firearm. The child was airlifted to Children's Hospital in Birmingham where he remains in stable condition.

My understanding is there were five or six kids there (unclear if my other cousin's step-son was there or just her bio kids) that saw the aftermath but didn't see him shoot himself. The guns were in the house on Thanksgiving like that too, and he kept going into the room with another little cousin and there would have been at minimum nine kids there that day, most likely 12+ kids, most under 7. It's bad enough, but it could have been so much worse.

The reality is most likely that she keeps custody of her kids and gets a fine. Unless any of the guns are unregistered,illegal, stolen, etc., then most likely her boyfriend goes to jail for that, not the neglecting to secure a fire arm around kids thing. I would honestly be surprised if either her or her boyfriend face any charges around the gun from it, even though they both should (Her for allowing guns in the house without being 100% certain they were unloaded and secured away from the kids reach, him for having the guns loaded and within reach of the kids.) The minor plus here is the gun he picked up was the smallest gun they had (probably the only one he could really pick up and hold as a three-year-old).

Right now they are watching him to make sure he doesn't have a stroke from either bullet fragments in his bloodstream or clots from the damage done.

I hope my cousin and her boyfriend get arrested and their guns get taken away and the kids get placed with her sister. The sister is the only one of her immediate family that is furious over what happened. The others are trying to dismiss his mom's fault in it. Guns were at her house, kids were at her house, it's her job to make sure they are kept separate and the guns are unloaded and locked up.

To be frank, I'm expecting the investigation to turn up drugs and that being the thing that gets them in trouble and the kid being written off as "accidents happen- the guns were legally owned and we aren't going to infringe upon gun ownership by pushing gun rules."

[showa58taro]

That’s so messed up. If you leave lethal weapons in reach if kids are around that should basically be as bad as shouting the kid yourself in my book. Absurd.

[Monster]

Holy shit. I'm okay with responsible people owning guns, responsible being the key word, but this is why I never owned one myself. I could never be comfortable with my daughter, nieces, and nephew being in the house with a gun. Jesus, I hope he'll be okay.