Eh to tired to research the exact charge, but seriously there needs to be a time when fancy names. But the video game excuse right off the bat, when clearly so many things are just... in front of you and clearly the parents fault. We truly need to go back to survival of the fittest and cleanse these people from the genepool. The stupid are breeding far to much...Starke said:
Child Must Have Thought a Gun Was a Wii Remote, Mother Says
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Now that says it all, right there. And the mother should have been keeping a closer eye on her kid - There's no excuse for arrogance.Onyx Oblivion said:[HEADING=1]Gun[/HEADING]
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I think that she saw something interesting, had no clue what a gun was, and started playing with it. But not as a Wiimote.
Also, before we get to the usual, and often deserved, Fox News bashing. Click the Fox News link. Fox News ITSELF isn't claiming this. Just the stupid mother.
PPS, to the mother:
I believe the word you're looking for is "cull", and yeah, that's sounding like a good idea right about now. Unfortunatly that's kind of what happend.Carlston said:
EDIT: I'll admit, I'm conflicted on this one. On one hand, it's culling. On the other it's still a three year old girl bleeding out from a self inflicted gunshot wound to the gut in the ER. That's a fucked up, painful, and (relativly) slow way to die.
There's a Darwin Awards Honorary Mention right there...Austin MacKenzie said:
Sorry, only a snarky comment could get through the utter headdeskin' facepalmin' utter stupidity that led to this happening. Poor kid.
Quoted for truthtsb247 said:You sir, are my new friend for the remainder of the day.jackknife402 said:
The parent(s) are to blame here. The fact that they left a loaded weapon out in the open where their child could get it is utter stupidity in its purest form.
Every weapon I own is either in a safe or has a lock on the trigger.
The firearm in question should have been secured like this:
and/or stored in one of these:
If the weapon would have been properly secured, this child would still be alive. The parents need to serve jail time - a LOT of it.
You saw this kind of stuff happen before Nintendo Wii's wee released. I doubt that it can be connected to the Wii zapper.
Anyone who has ever held a handgun could tell you right away the mother must have been smoking something when she assumed the kid mistook it for a wiimote.
The father and the mother broke the law when they left that firearm accessible to their child. I see this as a idiotic attempt to cover up that with a sad story of mistaken identity. Hell even if it was possible that the child mistook it for a wiimote, why in the world was the child pointing it at herself and not the TV?
I practice proper care of all my firearms. All of them are left unloaded in safes or locked display cases (these are impractical to use anyway as several use fairly obsolete and hard to find ammo). All ammo is stored on the second floor in the library in a locked cabinet along with all the reloading supplies. The guns around the house are all stored in locking drawers. Granted a fairly strong and determined person could access those weapons so I do lock everything unloaded in the safes when I have company I don't fully trust over.
The father and the mother broke the law when they left that firearm accessible to their child. I see this as a idiotic attempt to cover up that with a sad story of mistaken identity. Hell even if it was possible that the child mistook it for a wiimote, why in the world was the child pointing it at herself and not the TV?
I practice proper care of all my firearms. All of them are left unloaded in safes or locked display cases (these are impractical to use anyway as several use fairly obsolete and hard to find ammo). All ammo is stored on the second floor in the library in a locked cabinet along with all the reloading supplies. The guns around the house are all stored in locking drawers. Granted a fairly strong and determined person could access those weapons so I do lock everything unloaded in the safes when I have company I don't fully trust over.
I was actually thinking exactly the same thing; and when you consider that the mother was apparently in the room with her at the time, it sounds more of a case of child neglect where video games were used as an excuse to avoid arrest.Xanadeas said:
...or it could actually have happened that way, pretty weird things like that do happen.
why yes, yes it is, but i think he is most well known for playing Dr. Cox though.Milky_Fresh said:Bit off topic, but is that the chap who plays Dr. Cox in scrubs?Onyx Oblivion said:
think about it, video game comps. have money, people want money, so untel games are no more, we will always hear this shit.sumanoskae said:
(this is assuming the replica controller was sold as above and not spraypainted or made black by the parents)C_Topher said:This story puts my faith in humanity in the red.
Okay, I see how a child could confuse the two, but THE MOTHER WAS RIGHT THERE! If she couldn't tell the difference, now we have a problem. Dumb ***** is probably going to sue the makers of that accessory for making indistinguishable from an actual gun.crimson5pheonix said:Now, to be fair, here are the pics of the gun and wiimote.
I can see how a three year old could confuse the two. If she used her thumbs, she might have been able to pull the trigger. I'm going to go ahead and assume that the gun was loaded and chambered because I wouldn't put that past this stupidity...
Call me a horrible bastard, but if this is what she had as parents, then maybe this was the merciful option.
Considering the Wii is predominantly a toy used by children is it right to sell a gun remote thats matt black and roughly the same size as a real handgun?
The old nes zapper would be very hard to mistake for real, even from a distance. The one pictured above could be confused as such. Whatever about an adult, a three year old wouldn't immediately register the difference, and lots of handguns are being made with plastic these days.
Its a fault of Idiot toy makers cashing in on moronic gun fetishes, A fault of a moronic gun fetishist who would buy said toy with a young child in the house and then leave a loaded handgun in a place low enough for a three year old to reach.... I mean for christs sake people leave medicine out of reach of kids, WHY NOT A BLOODY HANDGUN?
No one should be sold a weapon without first doing a bloody course in how to use it.
Oh, It's alright then, It's the Wii's fault.
For a second there I thought it was bad weapon laws and extremely irresponsible parents.
For a second there I thought it was bad weapon laws and extremely irresponsible parents.
Well, true it doesn't look like a pistol. I suppose it sortof looks like an assault rifle in the vaguest of senses.Mozza444 said:
Regardless, she still let her kid play around in a room with a loaded pistol with the safety off. Whilst she was in the room. Poor kid.
I don't think anyone is actually interested that Fox isn't making the outrageous claims, OO. It's just another chance to bash FN, even if it's undeserved for once.Onyx Oblivion said:
Why wouldn't they? A three year old shot themselves. That's news. Reporting that is what a responsible news outlet should do.Woodsey said:
Unless things are way different in the rest of the world, that's not an every day expected occurrence.
PS: I really feel dirty referring to "Fox News" and "responsible news outlet" in the same post. But I guess even a blind squirrel gets a nut sometimes.
