ANOTHER accidental shooting

mike honcho

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First question that needs to be asked is WHY ARE THESE KIDS NOT IN SCHOOL??????

Greenville police say a child was accidentally shot and killed inside a home Friday morning.
According to police, they received a 911 call at about 10:45 a.m. that someone had been shot inside a residence.
The first officer arrived at the scene only a minute later and located the injured 12-year-old child, identified as Keshawn Carter Davis. The child was transported to Hunt Regional Medical Center in Greenville where he was later pronounced dead.
Police said the child was shot once and that the shooting appears to be accidental, but that how the children came into possession of the gun and what led to the shooting are under investigation.
"By all accounts, there were no adults present when the shooting occurred. Five children, ages 4, 9 and three 12-year olds, were the only people in the home at the time of the shooting," said Daniel Busken, Greenville Chief of Police.
None of the other four children were injured.
 
I'm not sure about Texas but school is out in this part of Florida now.

That said, having five children all 12 years old or younger unsupervised is a bad idea. That and the fact that there was at least one unsecured gun in the house leads me to believe the parents are incredibly careless. It's too bad a child had to lose their life due to their parents' negligence.
 
FLRacingFan said:
I'm not sure about Texas but school is out in this part of Florida now.

That said, having five children all 12 years old or younger unsupervised is a bad idea. That and the fact that there was at least one unsecured gun in the house leads me to believe the parents are incredibly careless. It's too bad a child had to lose their life due to their parents' negligence.
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School is in till the end of next week.
 
School is out at the end of next week in Perdido key FL. The selective parenting movement gets more ammunition every time this stupid crap happens.
 
Recently I heard what sounded like hysterical crying when I was going back to my office (glorified cubicle)..I wondered "what the h#ll is going on?" - it was LOUD. One of the ladies was on leave and fixing to have a baby and I thought - Oh No - please not a miscarriage. I remember thinking - hopefully it is somebody's Grandpa/ma...not that that would be good...but at least it would be somebody who had lived a reasonably long life - we all gotta go sometime.

No, that wasn't it, the lady two offices down had just gotten word that her nephew (3 years old) that she had been raising for her sister - and who had gone to visit Dad in South Carolina had apparently found a gun that was left out - and fatally shot himself. The dad isn't a drug dealer/gang banger - he is a military policeman in the National Guard who has done a stint in Iraq.

Holy Cow. It made me think. Surely for every fatal incident like this that makes the news, there are probably ten such incidents where a kid just wounds himself or shoots the wall or the TV.

Gun safety is KEY in my opinion. How can so many people be so careless with deadly weapons?

It's frightening. I can't imagine what my co-worker is going through now - we sent cards and flowers - but she just lost a child that she was raising because of a hugely stupid mistake - that she had no control over. (shaking my head).

While I firmly believe that guns should be legal - they can't be treated casually.
 
People are careless because nothing happens to them when stuff like this happens.
 
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