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Related: About this forum4 toddlers in the USA shot themselves over the weekend. 3 dead, 1 critical
A two-year-old boy in Houston has died after shooting himself in the head with an unsecured gun that he found inside his home, according to Texas police.
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On Saturday, a two-year-old boy in Fresno, California was killed in a similar incident.
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The father of four-year-old Justin Foss Jr, who accidentally killed himself with a gun on Saturday, has been charged in Georgia.
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In Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, a four-year-old child is in critical condition after accidentally shooting himself in a resort hotel room on Saturday.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44772682
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On Saturday, a two-year-old boy in Fresno, California was killed in a similar incident.
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The father of four-year-old Justin Foss Jr, who accidentally killed himself with a gun on Saturday, has been charged in Georgia.
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In Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, a four-year-old child is in critical condition after accidentally shooting himself in a resort hotel room on Saturday.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44772682
Gun culture. If it's not the guns that kill people, it's the toddlers, presumably? Or is it those who perpetuate the culture?
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4 toddlers in the USA shot themselves over the weekend. 3 dead, 1 critical (Original Post)
muriel_volestrangler
Jul 2018
OP
I can't help thinking that some of these kids were unwanted. People are horrible sometimes.
bettyellen
Jul 2018
#4
redwitch
(14,947 posts)1. Clearly there are not enough good toddlers with guns.
Inexcusable, unfathomable, just sheer horror at this.
Ohiogal
(32,057 posts)2. The nutters will just tell you
That these childrens' lives are the price we have to pay for our freedom to unfettered gun ownership.
Initech
(100,102 posts)3. If you have kids, keep your guns locked the fuck up!
They are not play things!
marshmallow_man
(9 posts)5. exactly right
Very disappointed to see people in this thread talking about more toddlers with guns and unfettered access to firearms. There are a thousand ways a toddler can kill/injure themselves, parents must be held responsible.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)4. I can't help thinking that some of these kids were unwanted. People are horrible sometimes.
At best you can say these parents didnt value human life enough.
EX500rider
(10,856 posts)6. Stupid to leave a round in the chamber with small kids in the house.
My small built female roommate awhile back could barely rack the slide on my Glock-17 at the time, no way a toddler could.