3-year-old Alabama boy accidentally shoots, kills sister, 9

[groundloop]

Source: CBS News

IRONDALE, Ala. -- Police say a 3-year-old boy found a gun on a nightstand Saturday afternoon, and pulled the trigger, accidentally shooting his 9-year-old sister in the head, reports CBS affiliate WIAT.

Kimi Reylander and her little brother were at her great-grandparents' home in Irondale, Ala., when she was shot. Irondale Police Chief Ken Atkinson told WIAT that family members who were home at the time did not know the gun was in the room the kids were playing in.

The gun had been placed there by another family member who was not home at the time, and did not know the kids would be there, according to Atkinson...........

The girl was flown to a hospital where she later died. Police call the shooting a "tragic accident."



Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/3-year-old-alabama-boy-accidentally-shoots-kills-sister-9/

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The story also quoted police as stating that there likely would be NO CHARGES FILED.

[iandhr]

1. The only thing that stop a bad 3 year old with a gun is a good 9 year old with a gun.

#NRAlogic

[maxsolomon]

2. I was coming here to ask people not to post this comment

I think it's a bit played out. It gets made after every tragic shooting. Also "I hope the gun is safe". That one is maybe a bit less played out.

I'm outraged there will not be a prosecution of the person responsible for securing that weapon. Although I can't say I'm surprised. I don't care if it's an 80 year old Grandmother, they need to do time.

Even DU's resident RKBA Squad would probably agree.

[LanternWaste]

4. Many people also think gun violence in the U.S. is "played out."

"I think it's a bit played out"

Many people also think gun accidents and gun violence in the U.S. is "played out."

[maxsolomon]

9. I mean that specific snarky comment

about a Good Guy with a Gun. It's not really adding anything at this point.

Gun Violence may be played out, but it's been at the top of the charts for decades, and shows no sign of slipping from the Top Ten.

Gun Accidents won't stop until prosecutors prosecute the negligent parties without exception.

[SoCalMusicLover]

8. No Gun Was Harmed

And it is exactly this country's HARD ON about guns, which lets cases like this disappear without any charges.

Outraged, huh? Don't worry, in a couple of days there will be another "accident" where the careless gun owners responsible, will NOT be charged, because they have suffered enough, or whatever bullshit excuse is given.

Perhaps the NRA would like to pay for the counseling this 3 year old might need, when his family tells him it wasn't his fault that he killed his sister.

Maybe someday he can have a gun of his own, and perhaps he will have a mental illness, and all the gun freaks can blame whatever he does on that illness, saying the gun is not the problem.

Waiting for the statistic on how many 9 year olds drowned in swimming pools, and how those should be regulated instead.

[maxsolomon]

11. you mistake me for someone else.

search my comment history; we're on the same team. I'm just tired of that comment.

[SoCalMusicLover]

19. It Gets Repeated

Because deep down, that is how the other side truly feels.

They truly feel, and have stated, that a gun is useful for a good guy to handle a bad guy.

They also care more for their guns than the lives taken by them. Oh....they won't admit or openly say that, because then they would look like uncaring assholes. But would they give up their guns if it would mean this child's life would be saved?

Of Course Not! Which is why it bears pointing out that "The Precious" was unharmed, and can go on to live a full and productive life. Unlike the 9 year old.

It's all irrelevant, nothing is going to change. If 27 can die at an elementary school, and nothing happens, an insignificant 9 year old's death sure isn't going to make a diff.

[Tab]

29. I understand where (I hope) you're coming from.

A 3 year old can kill his sister with any number of implements. Even a plastic bag and a hair dryer. However, the main difference is that plastic bags (or hair dryers, or cars, or whatever) aren't designed for the purpose of killing. That's secondary.

Guns, by difference, have one purpose only.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Horrifying, groundloop. Unbearable, and so cruel to both children. Thanks. n/t

[Dont call me Shirley]

5. Kimi...

[hatrack]

6. Freedumb!

[jtuck004]

7. Not an accident to leave a loaded gun where the kid can kill someone. The parents need

to go to prison. 3 years.

[SoCalMusicLover]

10. Haven't They Suffered Enough

Rinse & Repeat.

[jtuck004]

24. They murdered that kid just as surely as if they had walke.d in off the street and killed him.

Not nearly enough.

[trillion]

32. No. They haven't. And thats the logic people used for drunk drivers who killed poeple back in the

80's. They would decide the drunk suffered enough because of the guilt so don't put them in prison. All drunks had to do was fake remorse.

The person who left the loaded gun killed a child with his action. You don't leave loaded guns around for anyone to find and pick up. He belongs in prison for the very least involuntary manslaughter. But lets QUIT calling leaving a loaded gun around involuntary.

Who paid was the little girl. She paid with her life.

[mainstreetonce]

12. Someone should be charged

As an accessory to murder.

[mainer]

13. "placed there by another family member."

Parents may not have had any inkling there was a gun in the house. Even when you try your best to protect your kids, you can't control what the idiots you're visiting may do.

[SoCalMusicLover]

21. Then Charge The Fucking Idiot

If someone was to blame for bringing a gun into my home, placing it negligently, and one of my kids shot their sibling dead with it, you can bet they would NEVER be allowed near me or my children again.

[trillion]

33. +10000 and they need to quit calling this stuff "accidents."

[dchill]

14. "Tragic accident," indeed.

Sounds like no one is to blame.

[Stuckinthebush]

15. Except the family member who placed a loaded weapon on a night stand

with no trigger lock or safety on. While young kids were in the house playing unsupervised.

Other than that, no one is to blame.

[dchill]

25. I considered a sarcasm tag, but decided against it.

I also considered saying that had the sister been armed, this wouldn't have happened. Or perhaps an open carry law would have warned that 3 year old not to even try it.

In the end, I guess I shouldn't have posted at all, for these thoughts are unworthy. It seems to me that we have too many people convinced of the need to "defend themselves" - at the cost of innocent lives. People are way too in love with their weapons, but not their responsibility. IMO.

[trillion]

34. You should have added a scarcasm tag. I just about alerted you for being a troll and put you on

ignore.

[msongs]

16. dishonest headline, this was not an accident - it had specific causes nt

[SoCalMusicLover]

22. It's ALWAYS An Accident

They wouldn't dare use the term Negligent. Nor would they pursue any charge based upon it, even if they did call it that.

This is the United Gun States Of America, and so these daily occurrances are merely accidents. Much more PC.

[alcibiades_mystery]

17. Pew pew

East Gunistan.

[jomin41]

18. It doesn't appear that they are going to charge

the 3 year-old as an adult.(!)

[Bad Dog]

20. He must be white then.

[SoCalMusicLover]

23. Give The Parents The Choice

Either charge them for negligence, or whomever was responsible for putting the gun accessible to the child.

Or else charge the 3 year old. Give the parents the choice.

Of course that's pure fantasy. Would never happen in the United Gun States Of America.

[groundloop]

26. Parents weren't there, the children were visiting great-grandparents

Surely there must be a law about leaving a loaded weapon sitting around unattended, isn't there? The damned idiot who left that weapon there needs to be charged and do some serious time..... this killing was no "accident". For crying out loud, NEVER leave a loaded weapon unattended.

I just get kind of numb after reading all of these stories about preventable tragedies that are happening more and more frequently. Maybe I'm becoming part of the problem because I'm starting to get desensitized to this carnage.

[louis-t]

27. Yeah, yeah, tragic accident, didn't know the kids

would be there, didn't know it was loaded, didn't know the gun was in the room, I was just cleaning it, blah, blah, excuses, excuses.....

[trillion]

35. +10000.

[Submariner]

28. Another in a long line of head shots

I'm amazed at the number of child on child head shot shootings/deaths in the U.S.

The gun could be pointed at a lamp, wall, ceiling, the TV, in any direction away from another human being, but more often than not it's a head shot. The kids have to be picking this up from TV, or overhearing some family gunhumper discussions of "I'll blow his/her f'ing head off, etc."

Now the whole family, especially the 3 year old, has to live with this tortuous memory every day of the rest of their lives. Stupid.

[ManiacJoe]

30. There is no excuse for not having proper secured storage of the gun(s).

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

31. Gotta keep it on the nightstand

Fear fear fear

[trillion]

36. It's not fear. It's complete stupidity.

I didn't want to ban all guns until they came out on internet showing us their great display of logic. Guess I have no faith in their ability and still haven't recovered from their reasoning skills.

[truthisfreedom]

37. Let doctors talk about it

Untie their hands. Let doctors tell people about the dangers of guns in the house.