The bad kid with a gun could have been stopped by a good kid with a gun, duh!
this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Sometimes those people are children. But it’s still not the guns fault, obviously. The same thing would have happened if the nine year old child, who had no ill intentions, had a knife instead. Everyone knows it’s just as easy to accidentally stab someone to death as it is to pull a trigger. Happens every day in the EU, I assure you. So many accidentially fatal stabbings by children over the years.
/s in case it wasn’t obvious.
How the children obtained guns remains a part of the ongoing investigation, according to the Sheriff’s office.
I bet it's one of the parents or a close relative that didn't properly store their gun.
When are they going to start throwing people in jail for this?
Short of someone outright giving the child the gun, that’s the only option left. If a 9 year old can get to a gun, it’s improperly stored no matter where it is.
That's true but in these cases has the gun actually ever been properly stored in a locked safe and the kid nicked the key or something?
As a gun owner, that’s still improper storage.
Other than my personal carry which stays on my person (or a quick open safe in my nightstand when I’m sleeping), the rest of mine are locked in a safe unloaded, with their magazines stored in a different smaller safe.
If my kids were able to get to the guns, they pose no damage. They would need to be able to get into both safes and intentionally load them to pose any threat to anything.
And which of these precautions are you legally required to take?
If that's the case probably not charge. I'm sure that's happened at some point. But kids are playing with guns that are just left out in a lot of these cases and for those, yeah, maybe someone should face charges.
Yep mistakes happen of course but most if not all of the time it's just neglect.
The statistical probability of this happening is probably not zero, however, it is still probably remote in the extreme. Even if it were to happen, however, as someone else pointed out: that would still be considered improper storage, because the point is that nobody but a responsible adult should be able to get to it, especially not children. 
Just another murderer armed by just another legal gun owner. It's only noteworthy here because of the extremely young age of the murderer, not because "responsible gun owners" seldom arm people who shouldn't have guns.
Lol
This could have been prevented if the 6 year old was armed!
Take a bow conservatives…. This one’s on you.
How the children obtained guns remains a part of the ongoing investigation
I was hoping for a LockPickingLawyer video of him opening up a gunsafe with a fucking pube or something.
LockPickingLawyer, friend of gun-violence apologists everywhere.
The incident is not the first involving a young child and a gun in recent months. In Virginia, the mother of a 6-year-old who police say intentionally shot his first-grade teacher pleaded guilty to child neglect on Tuesday.
In July, a 17-year-old boy was arrested and charged with murder after shooting a 14-year-old to death in East Harlem.
Gun violence remains a leading cause of death among Americans. In 2023, more than 26,000 people have died from gunshot wounds, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
In Philly in July, a 14 yr old with intellectual disabilities accidentally shot her 2 year old cousin with an unsecured gun.
...looking for 2023 data, will update when found.
Gun Violence Archive is not friendly to VPN...
...https://deadorkicking.com/death-statistics/us/2023/
United States Death Statistics by Cause 2023
.*.Covid-19 related deaths are included in influenza.
.*.Beside these major causes of death, 413,888 people died 2023 for other reasons.
.*.Zero death for a cause means the data for the accurate number of deaths is not available at the moment.
Heart disease deaths 385,952
Cancer deaths 322,945
Chronic lower respiratory diseases deaths 62,120
Stroke deaths 98,637
Alzheimer's disease deaths 60,553
Diabetes deaths 68,343
Poisoning deaths 43,844
Kidney disease deaths 30,866
Influenza and Pneumonia deaths 207,784
Suicide deaths 27,489
Homicide deaths 11,103
Liver disease deaths 25,755
Respiratory disease deaths 25,630
Fall deaths 23,566
Firearm deaths 22,981
Septicemia deaths 23,944
Car accident deaths 21,727
Renal disease deaths 21,228
Parkinson's disease deaths 20,501
HIV/AIDS deaths 2,917
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Gun Violence Archive.
"Yeah, dude, I gotta own a gun to protect myself in case aliens attack! Don't worry, nothing bad will happen, it won't be normalized in our society or something!"
WILD guess, but I am going to say this happened in the US!?
More than 26,000 people have died from gunshot wounds this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
I used to accept that I'd likely get cancer if I lived long enough…
Being six years old doesn't mean that he's not allowed to defend himself, I see no problem here.
