A 14-year-old boy allegedly fatally shot his older sister in Florida after a family argument over Christmas presents, officials said Tuesday.

The teen had been out shopping on Christmas Eve with Abrielle Baldwin, his 23-year-old sister, as well as his mother, 15-year-old brother and sister’s children, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said during a news conference.

The teenage brothers got into an argument about who was getting more Christmas presents.

“They had this family spat about who was getting what and what money was being spent on who, and they were having this big thing going on in this store,” Gualtieri said.

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    10 months ago

    Republicans were so lucky to find the gun issue

    The best part is that Dems could take it away from them at any time by just deciding not to fight them on that one with little lost in the process.

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        10 months ago

        That means that gun control as an issue only exists because Dems allow it to exist.

        It’s the easiest and largest impact wedge issue for the GOP because gun control is basically a no go so they have to do very little to actually prevent it while it garners them a comparatively large number of wedge issue voters.

        Dems would lose relatively little by just dropping the issue almost entirely while denying a powerful wedge issue to the GOP.