How the children obtained guns remains a part of the ongoing investigation, according to the Sheriff’s office.

  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    58
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Sometimes those people are children. But it’s still not the guns fault, obviously. The same thing would have happened if the nine year old child, who had no ill intentions, had a knife instead. Everyone knows it’s just as easy to accidentally stab someone to death as it is to pull a trigger. Happens every day in the EU, I assure you. So many accidentially fatal stabbings by children over the years.

    /s in case it wasn’t obvious.

  • GunnarRunnar@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    39
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    How the children obtained guns remains a part of the ongoing investigation, according to the Sheriff’s office.

    I bet it’s one of the parents or a close relative that didn’t properly store their gun.

    When are they going to start throwing people in jail for this?

    • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      27
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Short of someone outright giving the child the gun, that’s the only option left. If a 9 year old can get to a gun, it’s improperly stored no matter where it is.

      • GunnarRunnar@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        arrow-down
        9
        ·
        1 year ago

        That’s true but in these cases has the gun actually ever been properly stored in a locked safe and the kid nicked the key or something?

        • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          15
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          As a gun owner, that’s still improper storage.

          Other than my personal carry which stays on my person (or a quick open safe in my nightstand when I’m sleeping), the rest of mine are locked in a safe unloaded, with their magazines stored in a different smaller safe.

          If my kids were able to get to the guns, they pose no damage. They would need to be able to get into both safes and intentionally load them to pose any threat to anything.

        • keeb420@kbin.social
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          If that’s the case probably not charge. I’m sure that’s happened at some point. But kids are playing with guns that are just left out in a lot of these cases and for those, yeah, maybe someone should face charges.

        • Whiskey Pickle@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          The statistical probability of this happening is probably not zero, however, it is still probably remote in the extreme. Even if it were to happen, however, as someone else pointed out: that would still be considered improper storage, because the point is that nobody but a responsible adult should be able to get to it, especially not children. 

    • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Just another murderer armed by just another legal gun owner. It’s only noteworthy here because of the extremely young age of the murderer, not because “responsible gun owners” seldom arm people who shouldn’t have guns.

  • sndmn@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    24
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    This could have been prevented if the 6 year old was armed!

  • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOP
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    1 year ago

    The incident is not the first involving a young child and a gun in recent months. In Virginia, the mother of a 6-year-old who police say intentionally shot his first-grade teacher pleaded guilty to child neglect on Tuesday.

    In July, a 17-year-old boy was arrested and charged with murder after shooting a 14-year-old to death in East Harlem.

    Gun violence remains a leading cause of death among Americans. In 2023, more than 26,000 people have died from gunshot wounds, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

    • jeffw@lemmy.worldM
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      1 year ago

      In Philly in July, a 14 yr old with intellectual disabilities accidentally shot her 2 year old cousin with an unsecured gun.

    • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      …looking for 2023 data, will update when found.

      Gun Violence Archive is not friendly to VPN…

      https://deadorkicking.com/death-statistics/us/2023/

      United States Death Statistics by Cause 2023

      .*.Covid-19 related deaths are included in influenza.

      .*.Beside these major causes of death, 413,888 people died 2023 for other reasons.

      .*.Zero death for a cause means the data for the accurate number of deaths is not available at the moment.

      Heart disease deaths 385,952

      Cancer deaths 322,945

      Chronic lower respiratory diseases deaths 62,120

      Stroke deaths 98,637

      Alzheimer’s disease deaths 60,553

      Diabetes deaths 68,343

      Poisoning deaths 43,844

      Kidney disease deaths 30,866

      Influenza and Pneumonia deaths 207,784

      Suicide deaths 27,489

      Homicide deaths 11,103

      Liver disease deaths 25,755

      Respiratory disease deaths 25,630

      Fall deaths 23,566

      Firearm deaths 22,981

      Septicemia deaths 23,944

      Car accident deaths 21,727

      Renal disease deaths 21,228

      Parkinson’s disease deaths 20,501

      HIV/AIDS deaths 2,917

      edit: format

      Gun Violence Archive.

  • ilovegodette@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    “Yeah, dude, I gotta own a gun to protect myself in case aliens attack! Don’t worry, nothing bad will happen, it won’t be normalized in our society or something!”

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    More than 26,000 people have died from gunshot wounds this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

    I used to accept that I’d likely get cancer if I lived long enough…

  • dtc@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    We still don’t know if that 6 year old had the legal authority or authorizing paperwork to have that nickname.

    Don’t break the law and you won’t face consequences.

    /s for those of you who don’t get sarcasm.

  • Drusas@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    25
    ·
    1 year ago

    OP, keep your editorializing out of it.

    “how the children obtained guns”? The article gives no indication that there were multiple guns. Your editorializing makes it sound like they were playing with guns and shooting at each other.

    The story is bad enough as it is without you lying about it.