Child Must Have Thought a Gun Was a Wii Remote, Mother Says
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So does a blender if you forcible ram it into someone's face. You still need a person to load the gun and pull the trigger. Without a person behind it, a gun is just an inanimate hunk of metal.FROGGEman2 said:
Also, nice attempt at using red and blue on the white background to try and force some sort of patriotic subliminal message on us that true Americans would be in favor of gun control.
This story isn't a tragedy, it's Darwinism at work. The kid's parents really shouldn't be allowed to breed if they were that retarded.
.....Austin MacKenzie said:Child Must Have Thought a Gun Was a Wii Remote, Mother Says
A young girl was fatally shot after mistaking her step-father's gun for a Wii Controller, her mother said.
So, imagine you're home and you hear an intruder. Like any good homeowner, you grab your gun to deal with them. Then, realizing it wasn't anything that required the sweet kiss of hot lead, you put the loaded gun down on the end-table, safety off, and forget about it. Totally reasonable, right? Who would expect that when your three-year-old step-daughter is playing the next day, she would find it and shoot herself?
That's exactly what happened in an unidentified household in Tennessee, according to Wilson County Sheriff Terry Ashe. According to her mother, the girl may have thought the gun the girl's step-father left on the table was a Wii controller. It's worth noting that the mother was actually in the room when the incident occurred, yet apparently failed to notice - or perhaps care - that her child was playing with the weapon.
Just remember, when you leave a gun unsecured and out on the table, and it ends in the death of your child, surely videogames are to blame.
Source: Fox News via <a href=http://www.destructoid.com/kid-shoots-herself-with-gun-she-thought-was-a-wiimote--166222.phtml>Destructoid
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Alright people, let's get one thing straight. This is freaking ridiculous.
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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:
Onyx Oblivion said:
TimbukTurnip said:
Assassin Xaero said:
WanderFreak said:
Doug said:
I don't know what you people are on, but from the looks of the sources the mother is NOT blaming video-games.
Now, before I get inevitably flamed, I will say that yes, her child died due to neglect and piss-poor child management.
But do I see her blaming video-games for this? No. All I see is her offering a weak excuse as to why her child got shot.
She, and the father, are guilty of parental neglect resulting in the death of the child. But I don't see them or anyone blaming video-games for this incident yet. So stop acting like they are.
I look at the source links and read the comment sections, and they're absolutely filled with people who can't read, saying things like "OLOL SHE BLAME VIDEOGAMES HURR".
When she said that her child must've thought the gun was a Wiimote, she was by extension saying that she herself also thought the gun was a Wiimote. That is her excuse for letting her child pull the trigger.
They're bad parents. But they're not blaming games. She's not blaming the Wii. She's just giving a piss-poor excuse as to try and draw attention away from the fact that she doesn't know quite how to look after a child properly. Freaking hell!
L2READ. All of you.
And even if they were blaming video-games, I'd be more concerned about the fact that a three year old kid died than whatever pathetic anti-gaming arguments they throw at us.
Note how I only quoted the posts on the first page - I'm sure as hell not sifting through the entire thread to quote the rest of the posts that accuse her of blaming games for her child's death.
Yes yes blame the Wii. Not the step-father for leaving a loaded gun on the living room table. Not the mother who allows loaded guns exposed around 3 year olds. It's all the fault of the evil men in Japan who make plastic controllers that look like guns.
When I was growing up, I had at least 30 toy guns ranging from plastic spacey things that made weird noises to those "realistic" looking ones with a metal-ish paint that made bang noises when you loaded them with the bang making stuff. This was true for everyone and it probably still is. Back then, if a kid shot someone the first to blame was the person who left a weapon unattended.
When I was growing up, I had at least 30 toy guns ranging from plastic spacey things that made weird noises to those "realistic" looking ones with a metal-ish paint that made bang noises when you loaded them with the bang making stuff. This was true for everyone and it probably still is. Back then, if a kid shot someone the first to blame was the person who left a weapon unattended.
You should make a habit of reading more than the first page.ffs-dontcare said:
It turns out the wii remote in the house wasn't the one posted on the first page, it was one that was black coloured and one that much more resembled a hand gun. Check page 6or 8 i think for the actual news reported picture of it.
Too lazy to read through an entire nine-page thread.chiefohara said:
That being said... touche, man. Touche.
No, you're not the only one.Funkysandwich said:Am I the only one who thought that picture was a joke at first?tsb247 said: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:
One of the first things my FBI certified firearm safety instructor told me when I was receiving training for my carry permit was his simple observation that everybody lies when there is a firearms related accident. You non-shooters out there hear stuff about people cleaning guns and they "go off" or drop them and they "go off" and it sounds reasonable to you but let me assure you that we gun users know the truth: you don't clean loaded guns. You don't drop a gun and have it go off unless it's a semi already chambered and cocked or maybe an old style single action revolver. Guns fire when a hammer falls on a chambered cartridge because a trigger has been pulled 999,999 times out of a million. The other time the gun was on fire. "It went off" is code for "I was dicking around and shot myself/someone/something," or "I intended to shoot myself/someone/something and don't want to admit it now."
So yeah, I call BS too. There is more to the story.
PS - I received my firearm safety training in Tennessee.
So yeah, I call BS too. There is more to the story.
PS - I received my firearm safety training in Tennessee.
This is why guns need to be secured away from children.
God damn it, if you can afford a gun, you can afford a gun cabinet.
God damn it, if you can afford a gun, you can afford a gun cabinet.
I think it really was as simple as someone left a gun within reach of a child.Lord Monocle Von Banworthy said:
A gun with the safety off, a round chambered, and the hammer cocked.
So yeah, they conveniently blame it on their Wii because otherwise they look like the Worst Parents Ever (tm)
First of all, why does ANYONE, even a redneck, leave a handgun lying around with the safety off?
Really, it's just... Stupid.
He has a child at the age of three. Children at that age explore and play with things, fiddle about with whatever they can get their hands on. He should fuckin' know. Not even rednecks are this bloody stupid.
And the mother.
WHY ON EARTH DIDN'T SHE DO ANYTHING?
She could obviously see her daughter play around with a freaking handgun. A handgun which doesn't even REMOTELY resemble a wii remote.
We can conclude that this is either:
A) Complete stupidity.
B) A case of both parents wanting their daughter to get killed.
C) Both. of the above.
This entire thing can be scaled down to one word:
Daft.
Really, it's just... Stupid.
He has a child at the age of three. Children at that age explore and play with things, fiddle about with whatever they can get their hands on. He should fuckin' know. Not even rednecks are this bloody stupid.
And the mother.
WHY ON EARTH DIDN'T SHE DO ANYTHING?
She could obviously see her daughter play around with a freaking handgun. A handgun which doesn't even REMOTELY resemble a wii remote.
We can conclude that this is either:
A) Complete stupidity.
B) A case of both parents wanting their daughter to get killed.
C) Both. of the above.
This entire thing can be scaled down to one word:
Daft.