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4:47p.m. EDT April 8, 2013
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Authorities say a 4-year-old boy got ahold of a loaded gun at a family cookout and shot and killed the wife of a Tennessee sheriff's deputy.
Investigators say Wilson County Deputy Daniel Fanning on Saturday was showing his weapons to a relative in a bedroom of his Lebanon home when the toddler came in and picked up a gun off the bed. Sheriff Robert Bryan says the weapon discharged, hitting 48-year-old Josephine Fanning.
She was pronounced dead at the scene. The child is not related to her or her husband.
Bryan says the shooting was a terrible accident and that within seconds of Fanning placing the gun on the bed, the toddler picked it up.
The gun was not Fanning's service weapon and the sheriff says the deputy's weapons are normally stored in a safe.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/08/boy-accidental-shooting/2064627/
JI7
(89,172 posts)and you decide to just put a gun down there like that when there is a little kid around ?
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)KG
(28,749 posts)GodlessBiker
(6,314 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Who could have guessed that a 4 year old would accidentally kill somebody with a GUN!?!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)JI7
(89,172 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Sounds like it was cocked if a 4 year old could pull the trigger.
Whomever had the gun should be charged w/negligence or involuntary manslaughter.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)(Where's the sad, sick & angry sarcasm tag?)
Beaverhausen
(24,466 posts)When will enough be enough?
mokawanis
(4,434 posts)and safe handling of weapons blah blah blah just refer them to this article and others like it. Even the best-trained people fuck up and get people killed.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)Beaverhausen
(24,466 posts)This is a police officer we are talking about. And now his wife is dead. Fucked up.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)It's instinctive, the product of careful training by my dad.
Every time you pick up a firearm (other than when you intend to shoot it) you check to make sure it's unloaded. Before handing it to another person, you check it again. When the person hands it back to you, you check it again. As you are putting it away in your safe, you check to make sure it's unloaded.
You check it even if you are sure you were the last person to handle it. Every time.