Five-year-old boy accidentally shoots, kills sister

Question

Point is I could post 500 of these each year..

And while I don't think they are grounds for banning the complete transfer of firearms, they outnumber self-defense uses of a firearm dramatically.

https://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/01/18000685-five-year-old-boy-accidentally-shoots-kills-sister?lite

Stiln · Answer

Point is I could post 500 of these each year..

And while I don't think they are grounds for banning the complete transfer of firearms, they outnumber self-defense uses of a firearm dramatically.

https://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/01/18000685-five-year-old-boy-accidentally-shoots-kills-sister?lite

rick3117 · Answer

The shooting occurred while the boy was playing with the rifle, police said. It was “just one of those crazy accidents,” White told the Herald-Leader.

This is criminal negligence on behalf of the parents.

-The gun was kept in a corner

-They did not realize there was a shell in it?

Unreal

Stiln · Answer

It is absolutely devastating..

But again one person on either side of the spectrum does not justify banning firearms completely because of this horrible event OR

It doesn't justify allowing people to carry or own firearms without any kind of mental or criminal background check just because a random guy could subdue an individual with his firearm.

rick3117 · Answer

I am wary of "mental background checks".

Who gets to create the standard?

will people that suffer from depression have their rights taken away? What about those who served in the military that have PTSD?

There are already mental adjudications IE the one that stopped the Sandy Hook Shooter from buying a firearm.

I have a hard time criminalizing being sad though.

14daroad · Answer

There are around 900 accidental shootings in America per year.&#xD;&#xA;There are an estimated 250,000 (the lowest end) defensie gun uses per year.

Stiln · Answer

Definitely a difficult question to answer I certainly couldn&#x27;t give you a solid response but what I do think is that there has not be some kind of medical records checking, HIPAA laws should not apply here then. It&#x27;s that simple. The VT shooter would have had a harder time buying a firearm with mental health records being exposed that were not court mandated. Although he did purchase a firearm online of them but he would not have been able to get the other with expanded mental health checks.

Five-year-old boy accidentally shoots, kills sister

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