Texas man fatally shoots 11-year-old daughter while hunting, authorities say

[braalian]

In 2018, accidental gun deaths accounted for 1% (458) of total gun-related deaths (39,740) in the United States.

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458 isn't trivial.

Of course it isn’t trivial. But you still have to put it in context. How many small children are tragically killed by parents backing out of their driveways and not looking? Does that mean all car owners are reckless for owning such dangerous machines?

 

[Blues Man]

Even this idiot was stupid enough to mishandle a gun. The head of the Oath Keepers was too stupid to check a gun before he decided to clean it, so now he wears an eye patch. He should have listened when that funny Christmas show told him "You'll shoot your eye out kid". From the looks of that nasty mouth, he should have listened when he was told to brush his teeth too.
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So what?

Whenever people are involved accidents will happen.

You accept this for every other activity but not for gun use?

 

[2aguy]

So what?

Whenever people are involved accidents will happen.

You accept this for every other activity but not for gun use?

Cars are used to accidentally kill over 39,000 people...you won't see bulldog calling to ban or confiscate them...

 

[BULLDOG]

So what?

Whenever people are involved accidents will happen.

You accept this for every other activity but not for gun use?

He shot his eye out, kid.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

A Texas man fatally shot his 11-year-old daughter Saturday in what appears to have been a hunting accident, officials said.

The child was identified as Daisy Grace Lynn George, a sixth-grader in junior high school in the Hallsville Independent School District, Harrison County Sheriff’s Capt. Tyler Owen said.


Harrison County is in northeastern Texas along the Louisiana border.

The girl’s father, who has not been publicly identified, has not been charged with any crimes, Owen said. The man was hunting when he was unloading a high-powered rifle, which fired and struck his daughter once, Owen said.

Although the investigation is ongoing, Owen said, the shooting appears to have been a tragic accident. “For it to be a father and daughter is just a horrible situation,” he said.

Dispatchers began receiving 911 calls at about 5:15 p.m. Saturday about a "hunting accident involving an 11-year-old female," the sheriff’s office said in a statement. "Further calls determined that a father had accidentally shot his 11-year-old daughter."

Air transportation was requested, the sheriff’s office said, but all emergency helicopters were grounded because of inclement weather. The critically wounded girl was transported with a police escort to Christus Good Shepherd Medical Center in Longview, where she was pronounced dead, officials said.

Texas father fatally shoots 11-year-old daughter while hunting

The shooting of Daisy Grace Lynn George appears to be accidental but remains under investigation, the Harrison County Sheriff's Office said.

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How do you shoot someone when you're unloading a gun? How would a rifle discharge when you don't have your finger on the trigger?

Should a safety test be required before you can buy a gun?


RIP

Hence its still under investigation. Cars kill more people in accidents than guns. Should parents stop driving cars? You are such leftist asshole. People already think you're an idiot. Your posts on this board prove them to be correct.

 

[Blues Man]

He shot his eye out, kid.

Again so what?

 

[2aguy]

He shot his eye out, kid.

Cars kill over 39,000 people every year......ban them...right?

 

[BULLDOG]

Cars kill over 39,000 people every year......ban them...right?

That was stupid the first time you posted it.

 

[2aguy]

That was stupid the first time you posted it.

Yes....you have no reply.....

 

[BULLDOG]

Yes....you have no reply.....

Something that stupid requires no reply.

 

[Man of Ethics]

RIP. Very Sad.

 

[Man of Ethics]

Most gun owners have no real appreciation of how dangerous they are. They think of them as neat toys, not weapons.

Sad but true.

 

[Man of Ethics]

Sadly many people do not view Human Life as precious.

 

[Man of Ethics]

Are you out there trying to ban cigs? You know, those little tobacco sticks that kill 600,000 Americans every year?

I would support banning tobacco.

Fentanyl is banned.

 

[2aguy]

RIP. Very Sad.

Suicide accounts for the most deaths.....Japan, South Korea and China have extreme gun control laws....and higher suicide rates than we do....

That means, dipstick, that guns do not cause or drive the suicide rate......

Meanwhile...guns save lives...lives of innocent men, women and children that are not torn up or destroyed by rape, robbery, murder, stabbings, or beatings....

600 million guns in private hands......over 21.25 million Americans can carry guns legally in public for self defense.........



American use those legal guns 1.2 million times a year to stop rapes, stabbings, beatings, robberies, and murders, as well as also stopping mass public shootings when they are allowed to have their legal guns with them...



Gun deaths...the truth....



2019...



Gun murder...10,235



Gun accidents...486



Of the gun murder deaths....over 70-80% of the victims are not regular Americans....they are criminals...murdered by other criminals in primarily democrat party controlled cities....where the democrat party judges, prosecutors and politicians have released them over and over again no matter how many times they are arrested for felony, illegal gun possession and violent crimes with guns...that's on you and your political party...not normal gun owners.





Gun suicides... 23,491...





Americans use their legal guns 1.1 million times a year to stop brutal rapes, robberies, beatings, knifings, murders......according to the Centers for Disease Control, and 1.5 million times according to the Department of Justice.



Lives saved....based on research? By law abiding gun owners using guns to stop criminals?



Case Closed: Kleck Is Still Correct





that makes for at least 176,000 lives saved—



Money saved from people not being beaten, raped, murdered, robbed?.......





So figuring that the average DGU saves one half of a person’s life—as “gun violence” predominantly affects younger demographics—that gives us $3.465 million per half life.

Putting this all together, we find that the monetary benefit of guns (by way of DGUs) is roughly $1.02 trillion per year. That’s trillion. With a ‘T’.

I was going to go on and calculate the costs of incarceration ($50K/year) saved by people killing 1527 criminals annually, and then look at the lifetime cost to society of an average criminal (something in excess of $1 million). But all of that would be a drop in the bucket compared to the $1,000,000,000,000 ($1T) annual benefit of gun ownership.

When compared to the (inflation adjusted from 2002) $127.5 billion ‘cost’ of gun violence calculated by by our Ludwig-Cook buddies, guns save a little more than eight times what they “cost.”

Which, I might add, is completely irrelevant since “the freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right — subject neither to the democratic process nor to arguments grounded in social utility.”

So even taking Motherboard’s own total and multiplying it by 100, the benefits to society of civilian gun ownership dwarf the associated costs.


Annual Defensive Gun Use Savings Dwarf Study's "Gun Violence" Costs - The Truth About Guns

 

[2aguy]

Sad but true.

Most gun owners have no real appreciation of how dangerous they are. They think of them as neat toys, not weapons.

And that is just a stupid comment......

600 million guns in the U.S.

Over 21.5 million Americans carry guns legally in the U.S. for self defense, millions use guns for hunting and competition.....

Number of accidental gun deaths in the U.S in 2019?

486

Yes...most Americans understand how dangerous guns are........

 

[BULLDOG]

Suicide accounts for the most deaths.....Japan, South Korea and China have extreme gun control laws....and higher suicide rates than we do....

That means, dipstick, that guns do not cause or drive the suicide rate......

Meanwhile...guns save lives...lives of innocent men, women and children that are not torn up or destroyed by rape, robbery, murder, stabbings, or beatings....

600 million guns in private hands......over 21.25 million Americans can carry guns legally in public for self defense.........



American use those legal guns 1.2 million times a year to stop rapes, stabbings, beatings, robberies, and murders, as well as also stopping mass public shootings when they are allowed to have their legal guns with them...



Gun deaths...the truth....



2019...



Gun murder...10,235



Gun accidents...486



Of the gun murder deaths....over 70-80% of the victims are not regular Americans....they are criminals...murdered by other criminals in primarily democrat party controlled cities....where the democrat party judges, prosecutors and politicians have released them over and over again no matter how many times they are arrested for felony, illegal gun possession and violent crimes with guns...that's on you and your political party...not normal gun owners.





Gun suicides... 23,491...





Americans use their legal guns 1.1 million times a year to stop brutal rapes, robberies, beatings, knifings, murders......according to the Centers for Disease Control, and 1.5 million times according to the Department of Justice.



Lives saved....based on research? By law abiding gun owners using guns to stop criminals?



Case Closed: Kleck Is Still Correct





that makes for at least 176,000 lives saved—



Money saved from people not being beaten, raped, murdered, robbed?.......





So figuring that the average DGU saves one half of a person’s life—as “gun violence” predominantly affects younger demographics—that gives us $3.465 million per half life.

Putting this all together, we find that the monetary benefit of guns (by way of DGUs) is roughly $1.02 trillion per year. That’s trillion. With a ‘T’.

I was going to go on and calculate the costs of incarceration ($50K/year) saved by people killing 1527 criminals annually, and then look at the lifetime cost to society of an average criminal (something in excess of $1 million). But all of that would be a drop in the bucket compared to the $1,000,000,000,000 ($1T) annual benefit of gun ownership.

When compared to the (inflation adjusted from 2002) $127.5 billion ‘cost’ of gun violence calculated by by our Ludwig-Cook buddies, guns save a little more than eight times what they “cost.”

Which, I might add, is completely irrelevant since “the freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right — subject neither to the democratic process nor to arguments grounded in social utility.”

So even taking Motherboard’s own total and multiplying it by 100, the benefits to society of civilian gun ownership dwarf the associated costs.


Annual Defensive Gun Use Savings Dwarf Study's "Gun Violence" Costs - The Truth About Guns

Their gun related suicide rates are tiny compared to us.

 

[2aguy]

Their gun related suicide rates are tiny compared to us.

No..their suicide rates are higher than our rates................they have higher rates of suicide in total...guns aren't the cause of suicide...so guns are not the issue in suicide.....

And yet Scotland has a higher suicide rate than the U.S......Japan, where only criminals and cops have guns, has a higher suicide rate than the U.S....Sweden has a higher suicide rate than the U.S....Denmark has a higher suicide rate than the u.S.....



France

Germany,

Hungary

Iceland

New Zealand

Poland

Norway

Japan

South Korea



https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/suiciderate.html



Scotland..



15.7 suicides per 100,000

In 2019?

16.7 suicides per 100,000.

And in the U.S.?

13.93 per 100,000



Suicide facts and figures



Changes in Suicide Rates — United States, ...



https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/suiciderate.html



South Korea 24.7

Hungary 21

Japan 19.4

Belgium 18.4

Finland 16.5

France 14.6

Austria 13.8

Poland 13.8

Czec Republic 12.7

New Zealand 11.9

Denmark 11.3

Sweden 11.1

Norway 10.9

Slovac Republic 10.9

Iceland 10.3

Germany 10.3

Canada 10.2

United States 10.1



A new report by Unicef contains a shocking statistic - New Zealand has by far the highest youth suicide rate in the developed world.
A shock but no surprise - it's not the first time the country tops that table.
The Unicef report found New Zealand's youth suicide rate - teenagers between 15 and 19 - to be the highest of a long list of 41 OECD and EU countries.
The rate of 15.6 suicides per 100,000 people is twice as high as the US rate and almost five times that of Britain.


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40284130



Another year...Japan and 20 other countries with higher suicide rates than U.S....



https://www.

 

[2aguy]

Their gun related suicide rates are tiny compared to us.

The Japanese need to ban rope and tall buildings........they are the leading methods of suicide in Japan.......guns are not the issue in suicide...but you asshats need to include suicide in gun deaths because you have to increase the number of dead to push your dumb agenda...

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jea/14/6/14_6_187/_pdf

 

[Blues Man]

RIP. Very Sad.

Guns do not cause murder or suicides