5 year old kills his sister with his birthday gun in US

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Title says it all, here's the link.

When will people fucking learn?

The thought of buying a gun for a 5 year old really is nothing short of insane. This is such a terribly sad story which just did not need to happen

It comes in a number of child-friendly barrel designs and colors, including hot pink for little girls. A host of accessories are also available, like story books and a gun-toting beanie baby of the rifle?s mascot, a cartoonish cricket.

Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.

That's the thing Nancy, completely unnecessary and yet you could see this tragedy coming a mile off if you leave a gun "in the corner of a room".

Oh Tall that part made my heckles go in to overdrive!

"?Just one of those crazy accidents,? "

From the article.

:( Says it all doesn't it?

So easily preventable. Really, who in their right mind thinks a 5yo should have a gun?

Disgusting.

How tragic for that little boy to have to live with that memory.

oh, awful, awful. Poor little girl and poor boy.

And he'd been given t the gun last year! The coroner has said it was just one of those crazy accidents. My 3 year old fell off the windowsill today, that was an accident. A 5 year old killing his 3 year old sister with his own gun is not a crazy accident. What sort of parent buys their 5 year old a gun.?.?

exactly.

WHEN WILL THEY LEARN???? It's SO frustrating, they're off their fucking rockers.

Hullababy, I didn't get past that sentence.
It's not just 'one of those crazy accidents' a gun was bought for a 5 year old, it was left in the corner of the room and no one checked to see I it was empty.

I would say its inevatable really.

FFS. Madness. And now that poor kid has to live with this for the rest of his life.

I can almost accept that lots of people in the US feel they need / have a right to a gun, but I can't imagine any reason that a child would need one, or how anyone could think it a good idea to buy a gun for a child. I am also amazed that the parents of 2 small children would keep a gun in the corner

This is insanity. Who buys a gun for a four year old? Come to that what sort of sick idiot markets a gun for a four year old? And why would anybody keep a gun in the corner of a room?

unfortunately not [shocked] though.

or even.

Sad truth is that this will make no difference at all to the power of the gun tootin lobby in the US.

God bless the NRA!

Oh good grief. How awful and stupid and easily preventable. WTF is the company selling this stuff thinking and what on earth were the parents thinking?

darwin in action

That is so tragic. Prehaps the little boy did not realise it was a real gun or understand that his sister would die of he pulled the trigger.

It is not a crazy accident. The parents are guilty of manslaughter.

merci that's an awful thing to say

It beggars belief that his sister was protected from the dangers if Kinder Eggs but not a fucking rifle.

That poor child.

Both of them. My 6yo plays with toy guns and spiderman web shooters but he'd be a sobbing mess if one actually fired, never mind hurt someone else.

forgive my ignorance but what does 'darwin in action' mean?

I assume it means survival of the fittest/removal of the gene pool of people who aren't worthy.
Apologies if this is not the case but I have no idea how else to take it.