Police: 7-year-old fatally shot by father outside gun store in Pennsylvania

[Politico]

Damn it! If car seats were banned this child might still be alive.

 

[Noomi]

It doesn't matter if it was an accident or not. It shouldn't have happened, period, and the idiot who discharged the weapon should face charges.

 

[zakdavis]

Police say 44-year-old Joseph V. Loughrey told them he had emptied the magazine but didn’t realize a bullet was still in the chamber. Seven-year-old Craig Allen Loughrey was shot in the chest and died at the scene.

Pennsylvania boy, 7, shot, killed at gun store

Bravo, asshole, bravo

When you are done firing a weapon, you take the magazine out, put the weapon on safe, and you check the chamber to make sure nothing is in it. If something is in the chamber, you point the weapon downrange, take the weapon off safe, and fire again.

 

[Noomi]

Police say 44-year-old Joseph V. Loughrey told them he had emptied the magazine but didn’t realize a bullet was still in the chamber. Seven-year-old Craig Allen Loughrey was shot in the chest and died at the scene.

Pennsylvania boy, 7, shot, killed at gun store

Bravo, fuckehead, bravo

When you are done firing a weapon, you take the magazine out, put the weapon on safe, and you check the chamber to make sure nothing is in it. If something is in the chamber, you point the weapon downrange, take the weapon off safe, and fire again.

Which is why there should be laws against utter stupidity - so idiots like this would face charges.

 

[zakdavis]

Bravo, fuckehead, bravo

When you are done firing a weapon, you take the magazine out, put the weapon on safe, and you check the chamber to make sure nothing is in it. If something is in the chamber, you point the weapon downrange, take the weapon off safe, and fire again.

Which is why there should be laws against utter stupidity - so idiots like this would face charges.

Manslaughter, reckless endangerment, and maybe some other things. He should have gone through my course-do something wrong when using a gun? You get smacked on the head with a clearing rod.

 

[bayoubill]

step 2: treat every gun owner as a potential mass murderer.

step 2 (to replace the one previously made): Make sure you follow all safety rules... and ignore asinine comments made by dumb-fuck, head-up-the-ass, dunno-shit-from-shinola anti-gunners...

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Less then 1000 people a year die from accidental discharge of a firearm. But then you don't care about that fact do you? Hell there are 40 to 50 thousand a year killed in car accidents, lets ban private ownership of cars. FOR the children of course.

Yep and some of those children killed in car accidents weren't even in a seat belt.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

step 2: treat every gun owner as a potential mass murderer.

Step three: treat every Muslim as a potential terrorist.

 

[Old Rocks]

As a lifelong gun owner, here is the problem as I see it. We have all these wingnuts putting guns on a pedestal, stating things to the effect that if you don't carry you are a cowardly weenie. Yet we also have a large population that has never handled guns, or are mentally not capable of handling them safely. So, we have tragedies like this.

No one should be allowed to handle a gun without having first taken a firearms safety course. And if someone mishandles a gun, it should be one strike and you are out. There is no excuse for handling a gun as that father did.

 

[Kiki Cannoli]

My heart goes out to the mother.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

As a lifelong gun owner, here is the problem as I see it. We have all these wingnuts putting guns on a pedestal, stating things to the effect that if you don't carry you are a cowardly weenie. Yet we also have a large population that has never handled guns, or are mentally not capable of handling them safely. So, we have tragedies like this.

No one should be allowed to handle a gun without having first taken a firearms safety course. And if someone mishandles a gun, it should be one strike and you are out. There is no excuse for handling a gun as that father did.

You cannot start off with "As a lifelong gun owner, here is the problem as I see it." and finish up with that other garbage. You're not a life long gun owner.

 

[GuyPinestra]

step 2: treat every gun owner as a potential mass murderer.

Fuck you, asshole!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

step 2: treat every gun owner as a potential mass murderer.

step 2: treat every Progressive as a potential mass murderer.

Fixed

 

[Missourian]

Very sad, but let's put this in perspective.

The odds of being accidentally shot and killed in the U.S. are roughly 1 in 400,000.

Your chances of being struck by lightning are 1 in 3,000.

IOW, this is EXTREMELY rare, especially considering there are 300 million legally owned firearms in the U.S.

 

[April]

The father will pay for this for the rest of his life...that's punishment enough.

 

[Warrior102]

Yet another innocent life lost to an accidental shooting....................

I know.
Two people died here today in an auto accident.
Were not wearing seat belts.

Fucking seat belts.
There should be a law against them - you pole-smoking assfucker.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Yet another innocent life lost to an accidental shooting....................

Updated at 4:40 p.m. ET: A 7-year-old boy was fatally shot in the chest Saturday outside a gun shop in western Pennsylvania, according to Mercer County dispatchers.

The boy’s father had gone in to Twig’s Reloading Den in East Lackawannock Township some time before 11 a.m. to sell a .9 mm gun, according to KDKA-TV Pittsburgh. The father said that as he was backing his pickup truck out of the parking spot, a gun went off, shooting his son in the chest.

Store owner Leonard Mohney told NBC Philadelphia that the boy was shot in the gun shop's parking lot.

The boy was seated in a booster seat on the passenger side. Authorities were called at 10:53 a.m. local time and found the boy lying next to the truck after a failed attempt at resuscitation. They stayed on scene until after 1 p.m., dispatchers said.

Twig’s Reloading Den is an outdoor supply store about 70 miles from Pittsburgh.

Imy Howard, owner of Howard & Son Meat Packing store next door, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that her son heard a shot this morning. She said that Twig’s Reloading Den hosted target shooting in the back parking lot last week but not this week.

A Twig’s employee told the Post-Gazette that the incident was “just an unfortunate accident.”

7-year-old fatally shot by father outside gun store in Pennsylvania - U.S. News

There was a 7 year old boy killed in a car crash here just last week, we should outlaw cars. It's for the children.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Less then 1000 people a year die from accidental discharge of a firearm. But then you don't care about that fact do you? Hell there are 40 to 50 thousand a year killed in car accidents, lets ban private ownership of cars. FOR the children of course.

Fuck you: "An estimated 32,788 people were killed in traffic accidents in 2010, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. That represents a 25 percent decline since 2005, when there were 43,510 traffic fatalities"

Traffic deaths are down you fucking moron because the Federal Government regulated safer cars, mandate the use of seat belts and required airbags.

A seven you old is dead and you don't give a shit; that makes you a sociopathic asshole, IMHO.

The government actually mandates cars have high gas mileage, which makes cars less safe. Traffic deaths are down because people are driving less.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

step 2: treat every gun owner as a potential mass murderer.

Step 3, treat every anti gun nut as beneath contempt and deny them the right to vote.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

It doesn't matter if it was an accident or not. It shouldn't have happened, period, and the idiot who discharged the weapon should face charges.

For what?