"It was God's will. It was her time to go, I guess"

[Synthaholic]

Oh, Lookee! More!

Charges against Chicago dad after 6-year-old shoots 3-year-old

 

[Synthaholic]

And look! Another one!


3-year-old shot to death in Detroit; the boy charged is 11

 

[Synthaholic]

In Texas, too!

Texas boy, 3, dies after shooting himself in face with grandfather’s gun: reports

 

[Synthaholic]

Alabama? We got you covered!

Alabama boy, 2, apparently kills his father with a gunshot to the head: police

 

[Synthaholic]

And, of course, Florida!

Fla. boy, 13, fatally shoots 6-year-old brother, himself in argument over food

 

[Vandalshandle]

Relax. These kids were only exercising their 2nd amendment rights. They were a well regulated militia.

 

[Searcher44]

What idiot buys a 5 year old a .22 cal rifle?

Shit, I couldn't get a BB gun until I was 10. A kid has to be 16 before getting a learners permit to drive in Kentucky. But a 5yr old is mature enough to own and operate a deadly weapon? Seems to be a warp in logic somehow.

 

[Moonglow]

What idiot buys a 5 year old a .22 cal rifle?

Shit, I couldn't get a BB gun until I was 10. A kid has to be 16 before getting a learners permit to drive in Kentucky. But a 5yr old is mature enough to own and operate a deadly weapon? Seems to be a warp in logic somehow.

I had to wait until I was 13, but we played stretch with knives..I never let my kids have guns until they were 11....

 

[Synthaholic]

Seems to be a warp in logic somehow.

Kentucky.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Fucking hillbillies.


5-year-old Kentucky boy fatally shoots 2-year-old sister


A Kentucky mother stepped outside of her home just for a few minutes, but it was long enough for her 5-year-old son to accidentally shoot and kill his 2-year-old sister with the .22-caliber rifle he got for his birthday, state officials said.

The shooting that took the life of Caroline Sparks in southern Kentucky has been ruled an accident, Kentucky State Police Trooper Billy Gregory said.

"It's just one of those nightmares," he said, "a quick thing that happens when you turn your back."

Young children in the area are often introduced to guns at an early age, Gregory said.

"In this part of the country, it's not uncommon for a 5-year-old to have a gun or for a parent to pass one down to their kid," he said.

Her family kept the Crickett rifle in what they considered to be a safe spot, Cumberland County Coroner Gary White told the CNN affiliate.

The boy was playing with it Tuesday when it accidentally went off and killed his sister, White said.

"The little Crickett rifle is a single-shot rifle, and it has a child safety," White told CNN. "It's just a tragic situation."

Kids and guns: 'These are not isolated tragedies'

The Crickett website features three .22-caliber rifle models for kids, with shoulder stock colors ranging from pink to red, white and blue swirls. "My first rifle" is the company's slogan.

Family members Wednesday described the shooting as an accident.

"He just picked (the gun) up before he realized it," grandmother Linda Riddle told WLEX.

Riddle said her granddaughter enjoyed singing and playing outdoors, and she loved her brother.

"It's just tragic," uncle David Mann told the CNN affiliate. "It's something that you can't prepare for."

Riddle said she is devastated, but comforted knowing that her granddaughter is in a better place.

"It was God's will. It was her time to go, I guess," she told WLEX. "I just know she's in heaven right now and I know she's in good hands with the Lord."

CarolineSparks' death comes after two other incidents in recent months involving young children shooting others. In early April, a 4-year-old boy in Tennessee shot and killed a 48-year-old woman, and just days later, 6-year-old Brandon Holt was killed in New Jersey after being shot in the head by his 4-year-old playmate.

Should charge the parent(s) with manslaughter for giving a bonafide weapon to a 5 year-old.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

I don't trust 5 year-olds here walking without an adult near the pond and keep a close eye on them fully prepared to runo ut there and fish em out of the drink. Only a fool would, and only the heir to the kingdom of fools gives one a weapon.