3-Month-Old Baby Shoots Texas Man In The Face
This totally never happens except when it does. After another apparent accidental shooting, Houston police are investigating. This time, the culprit is a 3-month-old baby. You see, the baby had access to his binkie, a blankie and of course, a gun.
[su_center_ad]20-year-old Patrick Sanders was shot on Saturday after a gun fell out of his pocket during a nap and landed in the hands of an infant, according to Houston Press Blogs.
Sanders was napping on the couch in the living room of his apartment, according to the police report, when the gun stashed in his pocket slipped out and onto the floor.
What could go wrong?
Well, when the man awoke, he found his firearm in the hands of the three-month-old boy, HPD Homicide Division Sergeant R. Rodriguez and W. Gilbert said.
You know how babies are. Oh look, a shiny thing!
Sanders tried to grab the gun from the infant, which caused the gun to fire, resulting in the man being shot in the face.
The baby was not injured during the incident, according to the police report.
Sanders was transported to a local hospital where he is listed in critical condition. It’s not clear as to whether Sanders is the3-month-old shooter’s father or not.
On the plus side: At least the baby didn’t put the gun in its mouth. Babies tend to put everything in their mouths, like shiny things, for example.
As far as I know, the gun survived the incident and is ready for the next. I’m sure the NRA would support gun owners teaching little babies proper gun safety. “More guns” is totally the answer. [su_csky_ad]
KB723 October 27th, 2014 at 2:59 pm
Teach them while they are ‘Young’???
cestmoi October 27th, 2014 at 5:06 pm
Cuz they may not make it to….oh never mind. Too gruesome.
KB723 October 27th, 2014 at 6:33 pm
Ok Coool…. =)
Jones October 27th, 2014 at 3:12 pm
Guns don’t kill, babies do.
R.J. Carter October 27th, 2014 at 3:14 pm
Well, he was an advanced infant. Most don’t start crawling until they’re 7 or 8 months old. That this one was able to come over, pick up the gun, and exert enough force to pull the trigger is astounding.
A less gullible police force might think the man was lying to cover something.
Pistol-Packing October 27th, 2014 at 3:17 pm
Just wrote something VERY similar…. Spidey Sense is detecting this to be complete BS..
Anomaly 100 October 27th, 2014 at 3:21 pm
I wondered the same thing. But, it’s not clear as to how the man was shot. Did he wrestle the apparently really LARGE baby for the gun, or did he pull the trigger accidentally?
tracey marie October 27th, 2014 at 3:39 pm
LARGE free range baby. I am going with that
tracey marie October 27th, 2014 at 3:39 pm
no no, in texas they have free range babies, just like their cows and chickens
Anomaly 100 October 27th, 2014 at 4:21 pm
Wait a second here. I *know* the size pizza your son eats. He’s gotta be one helluva big kid. It happens….
R.J. Carter October 27th, 2014 at 4:26 pm
If only he would eat that much!
Pistol-Packing October 27th, 2014 at 3:16 pm
This story is not making sense. If the man was on the couch, and his gun fell onto the floor as this story says. HOW is it that, a 3 month old, who can barely crawl be on the floor in a position to be holding the gun. This story is SCREAMING FALSE story. Or man is lying to cover up his own stupidity…
Pam Loken October 27th, 2014 at 4:20 pm
exactly!!!!!
cestmoi October 27th, 2014 at 5:06 pm
Everything is bigger in Texas, including 3 month old babies and dumbassery in general.
neworleans878 October 27th, 2014 at 5:19 pm
I’m going with the latter.
AZ Rocks October 27th, 2014 at 8:11 pm
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A Houston-area man was in critical condition after
being shot in the face when he tried to take a loaded pistol away from a
3-year-old boy, police said on Monday.
Russ Burgos October 27th, 2014 at 3:37 pm
Standing his crib
tiredoftea October 27th, 2014 at 3:37 pm
Another totally safe house because of the NRA’s guns everywhere, anytime, for everyone policy. Thanks, NRA, for all you do to lower the number of gun loving zealots in our country. I hear that the Darwin Awards is considering a separate category for your followers.
mcalleyboy October 28th, 2014 at 2:19 am
There’s many that wished they had become gun loving zealots but there’s no second chance on a home invasion or robbery incident, that doesn’t seem to make the headlines only accidents such as these, is it possible to prevent accidents when we have over 316 million citizens.
tracey marie October 27th, 2014 at 3:38 pm
What? The guy was napping on the couch and a “free range” 3 month old was grabbing a gun. LOL, so stupid it has to be Texas
rg9rts October 27th, 2014 at 4:12 pm
You’re right Texas…
Pilotshark October 27th, 2014 at 3:38 pm
Well that baby may have done society a great big favor and thinned that gene pool out.
Pilotshark October 27th, 2014 at 3:40 pm
Dammit DAD I said breast milk!
Par4thecourse October 27th, 2014 at 3:40 pm
Mishandling of a gun and blaming the child, is always something to be suspicious of in many of these cases…. Yet, we are talking about an idiot here where a child did get possession of a gun.. someone in this household isn’t playing with a full deck..duh…and in this instance a baby merely pulled a trigger (strong kid / hair trigger?).. and found the idiot that was shot did not have any neurons to worry about, and the child lived happily ever after. Although.. is it really a happy ending for the child to find that his/her genetic makeup is in peril that the apple does not fall far from the tree? Stay tuned for the next installment of “As The World Turns On A Slanted Axis”
rg9rts October 27th, 2014 at 4:11 pm
Hurry hurry only 4 days left in the NRA shooter of the month contest…and sooooooo many to chose from
William October 27th, 2014 at 5:08 pm
I don’t think I’m buying this story. Three months old? It’s Texas for crying out loud. Most Lone star kids can’t even identify the colors of the crayons they eat until puberty.
tracey marie October 27th, 2014 at 6:12 pm
okay, that was great
The Great Meat Hook October 27th, 2014 at 5:20 pm
Since this happened in Texas, the baby will be charged as an adult.
Matt Stewart October 28th, 2014 at 11:50 am
And sentenced to death.
LoriBelle October 27th, 2014 at 5:26 pm
Not buying what their selling. Three month old babies don’t have enough strength to do jack. Someone is lying and it’s not the baby.
edmeyer_able October 27th, 2014 at 5:39 pm
The only thing that can stop a bad baby w/a gun is…..well you know the rest.
whatthe46 October 27th, 2014 at 5:39 pm
a baby can barely hold on to a pacifier. so it makes no sense that he somehow had to “grab” this gun from him/her.
lamorpa October 28th, 2014 at 1:18 pm
You may get a better idea of what happened by reading a news article about it, like the one you would find by scrolling up on this page.
Larry Schmitt October 27th, 2014 at 5:45 pm
So instead of making himself look like just another irresponsible gun owner who carries a loaded gun around and accidentally shoots himself, he makes up this preposterous story about a 3 month old baby shooting him. He thinks this sounds better? And the police buy into his story? Doesn’t say much for them if they don’t investigate further.
Larry Schmitt October 27th, 2014 at 5:47 pm
It seems at this point that Alan could change the name of this site to stupidgunstories.com. There seems to be a never ending supply of tales of morons, idiots, imbeciles and halfwits committing various stupid acts with their precious guns.
Warman1138 October 27th, 2014 at 6:08 pm
I have no words for this……brain shutting down now….bzzzt, click.
M D Reese October 27th, 2014 at 6:47 pm
I’m really glad that the baby didn’t put the gun in his own mouth~!
Other than that, this is another “man bites dog” story. In fact, I think that I saw a story recently about a dog shooting a man.
Jones October 27th, 2014 at 7:21 pm
I saw that too, I think it happened in a pickup truck.
Larry Schmitt October 27th, 2014 at 7:26 pm
Anything’s possible in a pickup in Texas.
M D Reese October 27th, 2014 at 7:33 pm
Yes–I think the dog was hopping around, happy to see him, and shot him.
AZ Rocks October 27th, 2014 at 8:11 pm
just goes to show you how the liberals will change the truth – not that the actual truth is any better: 3 year old boy not 3 months old you idiot liberal rag – lol
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A Houston-area man was in critical condition after
being shot in the face when he tried to take a loaded pistol away from a
3-year-old boy, police said on Monday.
Obewon October 27th, 2014 at 8:20 pm
32,163 killed by guns in the USA in 2011, plus another 70,000+ are shot in the USA annually because many gun owners are so negligent, that a 3 month old Baby had a LOADED Gun Firing into the face of a Darwinian discard like you.
whatthe46 October 27th, 2014 at 11:11 pm
pretty sad his only argument is, the baby was 3 yrs old instead of 3 months. wow. just wow. so, who’s the real idiot here?
whatthe46 October 27th, 2014 at 8:28 pm
so, that would make it better? can’t cure stupid that’s for sure.
lamorpa October 28th, 2014 at 1:17 pm
Sorry you have such fears and partisan biases. Actual experience in the world and the public in general can help.
AZ Rocks October 29th, 2014 at 4:52 pm
what were the fears I represented? The truth…just stating facts that the truth was bad enough so why try and make it worse by changing the childs age from 3 years to 3 months – try and stay with the group…
lol at experience now that is just funny.
lamorpa October 29th, 2014 at 4:59 pm
The truth is not necessarily exclusive of being funny. The 3yrs/3mos thing has been running around. 2 different stories. It doesn’t actually make much difference. Your best hope is that people interpret your prejudices against any group as a fear, and not just as hatefulness. Just trying to be as positive as possible.
AZ Rocks October 29th, 2014 at 5:10 pm
you are going to think the way you choose it may not resemble the truth , but that’s your option. It does make quite a big difference – between a 3 month old shooting a person and a 3 year old doing. Think about it. Now why would anyone want to make the story even more offensive than it already is by changing the child’s age? That is the point. Not hateful by any means just more disgusted than anything, but thank you for your concern
lamorpa October 29th, 2014 at 5:18 pm
“just more disgusted” by some kind of behavior you choose to imbue on people based on what you decide is their generalized partisanship. That’s the purest of prejudice. As I said, there were 2 separate stories going around: one about a 3 year old and one about a 3 month old. The confusion is on the part of people who decided they were the same story and the facts were wrong in one or the other. I myself assume that people are intelligent whatever their political leanings. I don’t have to agree to see someone has value. But that’s just me.
AZ Rocks October 29th, 2014 at 8:51 pm
so in essence you absolutely think that a 3 month old is capable of shooting a gun? That speaks volumes. Good for you and your rhetoric. You just confirmed everything I said.
lamorpa October 29th, 2014 at 8:57 pm
So you’re saying you are only able to explore one logical combination about an issue. Noted. Maybe it’s actually inappropriate for_both_ a three month old and a three year old to handle a firearm. Both certainly have the grip strength to move a light trigger. The story said nothing of it being an uncocked revolver, etc. It also said nothing about aiming. I’m going by what the article said when I read it.
mcalleyboy October 27th, 2014 at 9:12 pm
Infant….hardly at 3 years old. This is a prime example of someone who shouldn’t carry a weapon, it has to be secured in a quality holster and don’t forget to buy a real gun belt…warning this isn’t cheap. Guns do save and protect lives, same with knives and baseball bats, your gonna have accidents, so I don’t see any story here.
Guest October 27th, 2014 at 9:18 pm
Three month old baby, twit. Now you’re the story.
mcalleyboy October 27th, 2014 at 9:22 pm
Your right, this is hard one to believe, the fingers on such a tiny baby, amazing story and a real slam to those that carry guns but keeping your gun in a pocket, way stupid, you can’t stop stupid. Another poster below claims this story is wrong and it’s a 3 year old? Who’s the story now, dweeb.
SteveRosset October 28th, 2014 at 5:07 pm
The kid was 3 years old on every other news site
lamorpa October 28th, 2014 at 1:16 pm
Wait a minute. You said ‘require’. The NRA is vehemently opposed to any and every sentence that contains the word ‘require’. It’s against their religion.
mcalleyboy October 28th, 2014 at 8:48 pm
You don’t have to be an NRA member to carry a concealed weapon but you sure do need a license or it’s jail for years. Sure the NRA doesn’t like require, if you like big government, red tape and bureaucracy…like in the the 70’s when it comes to carrying a concealed weapon the criminal has one and you don’t, reason movies such as “Dirty Harry” and “Charles Bronson” came out, the criminal knows his rights, there’s been changes since then and now it’s OK to shoot a criminal in the back if he’s fleeing carry a weapon, it’s also okay to shoot a citizen if he’s charging at law enforcement like line backer, many cops have lost their lives waiting to long to draw their weapon this includes women officers.
SteveRosset October 28th, 2014 at 5:06 pm
That’s cause your eyes are shut
mcalleyboy October 28th, 2014 at 8:53 pm
It’s a story but an accident story, we have over 300 million citizens, immigrants and illegal aliens living within the US. Positive gun stories Impossible and not gonna happen on any extremist liberal and anti-gun advocate blogger (I’ve been reminded by Liberals that they do hunt and carry weapons), your also not gonna here tragedies…such as home invasions and robberies, it’s real and a knife ain’t gonna work when the thug has a gun.
ZenBonobo October 27th, 2014 at 9:52 pm
I would like to believe this story but my BullShit detectors are all going off.
mcalleyboy October 27th, 2014 at 10:04 pm
I’d like see this story removed until verified, the original story mention’s infant and then gun totting child, hugh? 3 months and walking around..Not!
SteveRosset October 28th, 2014 at 5:06 pm
the kid was three years old on other news sites.
Steve M October 27th, 2014 at 10:33 pm
The child was a 3 YEAR old, not a 3 month old. The story is on multiple local new sites, including the Houston CBS affiliate:
http://houston.cbslocal.com/2014/10/27/man-shot-when-gun-falls-to-floor-picked-up-by-boy/
Glenna Jones-Kachtik October 27th, 2014 at 10:48 pm
I started to say that I didn’t think a 3 month old had the strength or dexterity to pull a trigger.
Mike October 28th, 2014 at 2:09 am
and you did.
Boehner-Monkey October 28th, 2014 at 12:09 am
I always knew there was something odd about thim. All he ever did was sleep and cry and poo.
Happenstance October 28th, 2014 at 1:32 am
Yeah, this stupid man shot himself in the face and tried to blame it on the baby. Three month old babies do not have sufficient grasp to hold the gun and pull the trigger. This happened when the man panicked and “tried to grab the gun from the baby”. An idiot. Disgusted, disliked and shared.
lamorpa October 28th, 2014 at 12:25 pm
Yeah. If there had been another infant with a gun there he could have shot this armed baby.
Stan Ubeki October 28th, 2014 at 10:23 am
We don’ need no stinkin’ background checks!
NM2000 October 28th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Something doesn’t sound right. 3 month olds have virtually zero grip strength. Pulling a trigger, or at least holding on to it hard enough to pull it while you are taking it away? And why pull it toward your face anyway? If this did happen, you nudge the barrel toward nobody and gently pry the baby’s hands off, which is easy because they have zero grip yet. There’s got to be more to this story.
SteveRosset October 28th, 2014 at 5:05 pm
Reuters reports it was a three year old not three month old.
Jared Townsend October 28th, 2014 at 11:49 am
This site is like the Onion… only not very funny. Not saying this couldn’t have happened… there are idiots all around us (they claim the man fell asleep and the pistol fell out of his jacket)… but I can;t find any other credible source for the incident. In fact, the site has many more ridiculous sounding gun related stories.
In reality however, if this were to happen the circumstances would likely have been worse. You see, young children don’t typically have the dexterity and coordination in their trigger fingers to pull the trigger of most hand guns, at least not comfortably. The default mode of playing with the trigger for small children is often with their thumbs which, unfortunately means the barrel is most likely pointed back towards the infant’s face.
SteveRosset October 28th, 2014 at 5:04 pm
Reuters reports it was a three year old. I think the 3 month old was a mistype.
ShanaLeBeau October 28th, 2014 at 12:08 pm
The kid is 3 YEARS old, not three months.
Please proofread and fact check.
lamorpa October 28th, 2014 at 12:24 pm
Yeah. He was no baby. He should have already been moving up to assault weapons. I mean, priorities people.
OldLefty October 28th, 2014 at 1:35 pm
That’s what the report said;
“Houston police are investigating the apparent accidental shooting of 20-year-old Patrick Sanders Saturday after a gun fell out of his pocket during a nap and landed in the hands of an infant.
Sanders was napping on the couch in the living room of his apartment on the 4700 block of Wenda Street Saturday morning, according to an HPD report, when the gun stashed in his pocket slipped out and onto the floor.
The man awoke to find it in the hands of the three-month-old boy, HPD Homicide Division Sergeant R. Rodriguez and W. Gilbert reported.”
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/news/2014/10/man_accidentally_shot_in_face_after_wrestling_gun-toting_infant.php
R.J. Carter October 28th, 2014 at 5:29 pm
Houston Press got it incorrect. KHOU has a more detailed story.
OldLefty October 28th, 2014 at 6:36 pm
My point was not to blame the person who saw the article and posted it.
ShanaLeBeau October 29th, 2014 at 1:45 pm
And my point is that when an element makes no sense, like an *infant* managing to lift a pistol when he can’t even crawl yet, you should probably double check.
lamorpa October 28th, 2014 at 1:13 pm
Let’s get the facts straight here. It’s one thing to give a gun to a mature 3-year-old, it’s a whole nother to give one to an infant. I don’t think NRA even encourages arming a child at least until they can walk. While their aim is certainly as good as a normal adult under tense conditions, their concentration can be lacking.
SteveRosset October 28th, 2014 at 5:01 pm
Mature 3 year old? Did you seriously just say that?
R.J. Carter October 28th, 2014 at 5:27 pm
I detected sarcasm.
disqus_Xz3UA6obwj October 28th, 2014 at 1:19 pm
Why show a 3 month old white infant when it was a 3 year old black kid?
OldLefty October 28th, 2014 at 1:32 pm
Why show a 3 month old white infant when it was a 3 year old black kid?
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Perhaps because;
1) That’s what the report said;
“Sanders was napping on the couch in the living room of his apartment on the 4700 block of Wenda Street Saturday morning, according to an HPD report, when the gun stashed in his pocket slipped out and onto the floor.
The man awoke to find it in the hands of the three-month-old boy, HPD Homicide Division Sergeant R. Rodriguez and W. Gilbert reported.”
2) That may have been the only stock photos
3) Is he black? And what difference would that make?
4) A little touchy are we?
Anomaly 100 October 28th, 2014 at 5:50 pm
You’re talking about two separate incidents. One was a three-year-old boy who was fatally shot by an arsehole. And this is a 3-month-old. You see, months and years are different.
Eric Stewart October 28th, 2014 at 3:23 pm
IF a 3-month old was able to squeeze the trigger of a pistol, the kickback would have damn near cracked its skull. Still, a funny premise for a story.
invisigoth October 28th, 2014 at 3:53 pm
“Sanders tried to grab the gun from the infant, which caused the gun to fire, resulting in the man being shot in the face.”
SteveRosset October 28th, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Darwinism at its finest
lamorpa October 28th, 2014 at 7:08 pm
ism?
Alan Batterman October 28th, 2014 at 6:13 pm
A million to one freak accident
lamorpa October 28th, 2014 at 7:07 pm
True. I certainly let my infants and toddlers handle loaded guns a couple hundred thousand times, and nothing bad happened.
rebel7254 October 28th, 2014 at 6:23 pm
It totally didn’t happen though.
George Yesthal October 28th, 2014 at 8:56 pm
Bullshit. A 3 month old cannot even hold a gun. Pure leftist BULLSHIT, nothing more.
KB723 October 28th, 2014 at 9:45 pm
Yet you find the time to reply…. 😉
Timothy Bishop October 29th, 2014 at 2:13 am
http://houston.cbslocal.com/2014/10/27/man-shot-when-gun-falls-to-floor-picked-up-by-boy/ 3 years old not 3 month old. here is the story on cbs
Viv Arney October 28th, 2014 at 9:38 pm
Serves the jackass right – having a gun in his pocket!
coren October 28th, 2014 at 11:49 pm
Simpsons already did it.
Jeane Thompson October 29th, 2014 at 12:48 am
Me thinks Sanders is using this infant to cover up what really happened.
Daniel Sackinger October 29th, 2014 at 1:12 am
I think this is supposed to say 3 years (not 3 months) old?
http://www.khou.com/story/news/local/2014/10/27/hpd-man-accidentally-shot-grabbing-gun-from-toddler/18005139/
Timothy Bishop October 29th, 2014 at 2:14 am
please get the story correct before taking the time to write an article. here is the story on cbs if you wanted the news http://houston.cbslocal.com/2014/10/27/man-shot-when-gun-falls-to-floor-picked-up-by-boy/
drmesmo October 29th, 2014 at 9:44 am
You are right. Shot by a 3 year old child. Much better.
Nick Molinari October 29th, 2014 at 10:28 am
And yet another source says:
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/news/2014/10/man_accidentally_shot_in_face_after_wrestling_gun-toting_infant.php
Timothy Bishop December 16th, 2014 at 7:33 pm
that’s a blog
Carrie Singer October 29th, 2014 at 2:20 am
Three-month-old babies can’t sit up.
H Steven Mead October 29th, 2014 at 8:54 am
Ok when it is going to stop. These kids today think they can get away with anything because of their age. This kid I bet thought he or she was going to be treated differently then an adult just because they are young people and we don’t like punishing young people like adults. And the age of these criminals are getting younger and younger just as in this article. I’m sure this kids had a beef with his or her father and said I’m going to kill this f-er what they going to do to a 3 month old. And here we are playing poor little baby just like this baby thought. Boy we sure are fools.
Robdotcom71 October 29th, 2014 at 9:27 am
Better charge the little tyke with murder and send him to the electric
crib…. it’s obvious not stand your ground…. babies at that age tend
to have problems standing… lol
Wile E. Coyote (Supergenius) October 29th, 2014 at 11:08 am
so, now we know there really are idiots who try to take guns from people while the gun is pointed at their face. You think maybe it would be a good idea to take the gun away while it isn’t pointing at you?
Wallace Torbert October 29th, 2014 at 11:57 am
So funny. Three month old or three years old, typical moron gun owner allowing his gun to be in a position where anyone could get it. In addition, I love all these gun lovers who tell the government..’Just try and get my gun” Hell, just send in a toddler , he can get Bubba’s gun easy.
Gun owners who don’t lock guns away or have trigger guards are zero threat to any supposed evil govenment. Heck, anyone can slip in and steal their guns. LOLOLOLOL Dumb Fox News Republicans.
Wallace Torbert October 29th, 2014 at 11:58 am
Bubba says…Now whare is mah gun? I left it right heah next to the baby bed. Blam..Make my day..you ain’t my real daddy anyway.lol
Wallace Torbert October 29th, 2014 at 12:00 pm
I can see ISIS trembling in their boots when they see the fat hogs in those open carry pictures. Akmed, look at that fat pig. Let’s don’t cut his head off, let’s roast him on an open pit. You bring beer…I get charcoal.
Kevin Harris October 29th, 2014 at 5:56 pm
Wallace, continue your moronic libtard rants while failing at any attempt to intelligently articulate a sentence. And Muslims don’t eat pig 😉
Robyn Ryan October 29th, 2014 at 9:58 pm
Garlic. Lots of garlic…
Kohoutek October 29th, 2014 at 1:29 pm
Call me skeptical. How do we know that the jackass did not accidentally shoot himself and blame the kid, or that he actually intended for the baby to find and kill himself with the gun? There are too many questions: was there another adult watching the child while he was napping, and if not, why take a “nap” at that time?
Obewon October 29th, 2014 at 2:16 pm
This is one of Gohmert’s ‘Terror babies’ rigged to explode. BOOM!
prb October 29th, 2014 at 4:52 pm
I’ll bet a 3 month old boy can be tried as an adult in Texas.
FGL - Dirt October 29th, 2014 at 4:55 pm
3 YEAR* old, not 3 month old. A little more plausible (though still pretty stupid on the guy’s part)
squirl033 October 29th, 2014 at 5:42 pm
so in other words, the father shot HIMSELF in the face… a 3-month old’s hands aren’t anywhere near big or coordinated enough to grip a pistol, and nowhere near strong enough to keep the father from easily taking it away. this is just a case of stupid, which naturally the spit-spraying lefties will latch onto as another anecdotal bit to try to bolster their lame-ass arguments for banning guns…
Xerxes October 29th, 2014 at 7:52 pm
If you’re going to post that much, why not tell us what the true story was?
Xerxes October 29th, 2014 at 7:58 pm
Ah, apparently 3-year old, not 3-month old, child. Totally makes the difference for pushing a radical anti-gun agenda.
Or, perhaps, it’s not actually part of some mysterious conspiracy that’s somehow failed to manipulate every other news source, but instead a stupid mistake.
Obewon October 29th, 2014 at 8:22 pm
Guns killed 32,163 in the USA in 2011, plus another 70,000 Americans shot each year. Study-Up Ebola Paranoids: A) Guns were used in 11,078 homicides in the U.S. in 2010, comprising almost 35% of all gun deaths, and over 68% of all homicides.Via WISQARS Injury Mortality Reports,
B) People of all age groups are significantly more likely to die from unintentional firearm injuries when they live in states with more guns, relative to states with fewer guns. On average, states with the highest gun levels had nine times the rate of unintentional firearms deaths compared to states with the lowest gun levels.(Firearm Availability and Unintentional Firearm Deaths, 33 Accident Analysis & Prevention 477 July 2001)
C) The U.S. General Accounting Office has estimated that 31% of unintentional deaths caused by firearms might be prevented by the addition of two devices: a child-proof safety lock (8%) and a loading indicator (23%)-DOJ/CDC Wiskers. http://smartgunlaws.org/gun-deaths-and-injuries-statistics/#footnote_5_5975
Wallace Torbert October 29th, 2014 at 9:20 pm
Keep on worshipping guns morons. I can guarantee that I could outshoot any of you dumb red necks.
whamprod October 30th, 2014 at 4:58 pm
Who is a redneck? And how can you possibly guarantee such a stupid thing? I’ll bet you think you can out-jump, out-ride, out-run, and out-boast everybody too.
Please. Absent credentials, you’re just another lefty windbag.
Wallace Torbert October 30th, 2014 at 7:49 pm
Not so, I’m an expert marksman.
Wallace Torbert October 29th, 2014 at 9:22 pm
Open carry folks are usually 350 pound fat guys and red necks. Like John Candy in Strips. How’s it going Eisenhower..I hope this is the mess hall..wheezing.
Wallace Torbert October 29th, 2014 at 9:24 pm
Go ahead 9 year old girl and shoot the uzzi by yourself…Hit the deck ..is he dead? Who the instructor. Yup.
Wallace Torbert October 29th, 2014 at 9:25 pm
Heck in Helen Ga a gun nut was playing with his gun and shot a tourist across the street. You see in Gawga anyone can get a gun, just most don’t have a clue how to safely use one.
dirtyhippie87 October 30th, 2014 at 7:13 am
Dammit, I wish my baby had been such a badass…
Wallace Torbert October 30th, 2014 at 7:49 pm
Then you would be dead dummy
dave-dr-gonzo October 30th, 2014 at 12:06 pm
As Art Linkletter used to say, “Kids do the darnedest things!”
bcbob October 30th, 2014 at 1:17 pm
by the same logic we should ban automobiles . . .
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/29/us/arizona-fatal-joyride/
Wallace Torbert October 30th, 2014 at 7:48 pm
Nope, cars have a purpose for transportation and require training and a license. And cars are patrolled for violations. Guns? Just buy them, training? Nope, responsibility? Nope. License? Nope
bcbob October 31st, 2014 at 1:59 pm
Ok . . did you read my link . .. I think not . . . how many 8 year olds have training and a license? and if cars are so closely patrolled how did an 8 year old get out of the driveway . . . and actually this idiot shot himself if you read this article. Whens the last time you tried to buy a gun . . . you just don’t go down and buy one – its a long drawn out process. And their ain’t no fixing stupid which is what this guy was. Admittedly the kids parents are stupid too. But a gun and a car are just machines so get over it like I said you can’t fix stupid or make idiots go away all we can do is hope the darwin awards pick up their pace.
Wallace Torbert October 31st, 2014 at 5:18 pm
Cars and driving require license, registration. That is all we ask of guns. Be licensed, register the gun and get trained. Both are machines and both should require training, maintenance and registration. Your car gets stolen and you ID it by the registration.
Now does this mean folks skirt this? Sure, but you would agree that just because folks skirt the law does not mean we should have no laws.
It might be hard to get a gun , why I don’t know, at a dealer, but gun shows are wide open.
In addition, police patrol cars and driving. Noone polices guns. Once sold one can have a billion guns and 500,000 rounds of ammunition (exaggerating).
The 9 year old girl who killed her instructor with an uzzi was not breaking the law. It was legal. Now, do we legally license 9 year olds to drive? I think not. When a PTSD marine can legally get guns and head to Mexico you know there is a problem because he is using being crazy as a defense on how he got into Mexico. his PTSD disoriented him.
Nothing wrong with guns or cars, just need to control them and no a zombie apocolapse isn’t in your future
Derp November 2nd, 2014 at 11:48 pm
Long, drawn out process? I can go online right now, buy a gun with no background check at all and have it here overnight parcel if the shipper is willing to send it that fast. That long, drawn out process is filling out a piece of paper and wait will they run it through the database. Nothing near as complicated as the driving test. I’d love to see people have to pass target practice and a safety course before being able to own a gun because most wouldn’t be able to pass.
John Churchill November 2nd, 2014 at 8:27 pm
guns have only one purpose and that is to kill. there is no other use for them. cars, on the other hand, are pretty useful for transportation of people and goods, and are important for all kinds of services that are necessary for a functioning society. so no, banning automobiles is not the same as banning guns. a driver’s license means you can drive, a gun license means you can kill (under certain circumstances, of course, but sometimes “stuff” happens…).
flakingnapstich October 30th, 2014 at 4:12 pm
I have a suspicion this young man was not the graduate of a gun safety course. I have no objections to private gun ownership, but clearly we need folks to pass a few mandatory ownership and safety courses before they get one!
whamprod October 30th, 2014 at 4:54 pm
The guy who goes to sleep with an unholstered gun in his pocket and a baby in his lap is an idiot. More laws are not going to make idiots any safer. That’s why we call them “IDIOTS” in the first place.
Every single time….. and I mean EVERY single time that the NRA tries to get it’s Eddy the Eagle gun safety course implemented in public schools, lefties have a cow. Guns are out there. They are a fact of life. Why on earth someone wouldn’t want their child to be educated in how to respond SAFELY if the child comes across a firearm in the home of a playmate he or she is visiting is beyond me. It goes to the notion that a child found dead with a bullet through his head is somehow more noble than a child who sees the gun, knows not to handle it, and knows to go get an adult……which is what the NRA teaches……..more noble simply because the instructor in this case is the Big Bugaboo – the NRA – and God forbid THEY should be credited with making kids safer, just because the lefties don’t know how.
I will accept enforced government mandated ownership and safety courses to practice any of my rights, when you accept the same to practice yours…… ALL of yours. Anyone who thinks that words cannot be dangerous, even lethal, never read a history book in his or her life.
flakingnapstich October 30th, 2014 at 5:13 pm
One big problem with gun safety taught in public schools is the lack of funding for it. The NRA has this lovely history of trying to get their courses mandated but ignoring the need to actually FUND those courses. Gee, why would parents object to ANOTHER unfunded mandate?
Then there’s the fat that the NRA isn’t exactly consistent on their gun programs to begin with. Not long ago, they advocated mandatory licensing for gun ownership. Now they push for open carry without a license, except when someone tries to open carry while black. I don’t trust an NRA authored safety course simply because they’re too fickle an organization to be trusted.
Wallace Torbert October 30th, 2014 at 7:41 pm
A three year old could be taught how to use a gun ?
Wallace Torbert October 30th, 2014 at 7:50 pm
They do…Have you got $500? Yup. Congratulations you are now Audie Murphy.
Wallace Torbert October 30th, 2014 at 7:47 pm
Folks don’t like the NRA because they are silent about gun training and laws. They favor neither. But are vocal when it suits them. What is wrong with a doctor telling a family that a gun in the house with kids is unsafe? It is. Mainly because you can’t train toddlers or 9 year old girls (see 9 year old kills instrictor with uzzi). I saw many adults who cannt handle a fire arm properly. It takes a lot of training and since training is not required we have millions of idiots with guns carrying them around and one killed a visitor to Helen Ga, a touist because he was drinking at Octoberfest and playing with his gun. Idiot equals dead innocent people. Guns should be for the trained only. Since you may like anyone with a gun, then you don’t object to Iran having a nuke.
LittleMrJ October 30th, 2014 at 9:22 pm
My son was once 3 months old. He couldn’t hold his own pacifier, let alone hold a gun & squeeze the trigger. How is this kid in the photo miraculously holding the gun with all 5 of his fingers in front of it? He’s not. Glock doesn’t even make a gun that small anyway. A Photoshopped picture for a fake article. Ridicules. Why do liberals need to lie to push the political agenda? The kid was three YEARS old, not 3 months. Perhaps read a major news outlet instead of a fraudulent blog entry.
Wallace Torbert October 31st, 2014 at 5:20 pm
Yeah like being three is a lot different.
Cynthia Kramer November 1st, 2014 at 4:55 am
You said exactly what I was thinking and I couldn’t agree more, LittleMrJ!
Derp November 2nd, 2014 at 11:44 pm
Sorry, this is quite real.
http://houston.cbslocal.com/2014/10/27/man-shot-when-gun-falls-to-floor-picked-up-by-boy/
Why do conservatives have to claim every thing is fake when they damn well know it’s not?
Gibbs November 5th, 2014 at 9:01 pm
Read your own link. It clearly states YEARS, where this article says MONTHS. Why can’t liberals read?
Derp November 15th, 2014 at 5:58 pm
I read it and the ONLY thing wrong in the article is whoever typed it put in months, not years. Doesn’t change what happened, doesn’t change the outcome and doesn’t change that yet another child got hold of a ‘responsible gun owner’s weapon and fired it since the safety was off and the gun loaded. It also doesn’t take away the justice that the idiot gun owner got shot in his face with his own gun and the child did not get hurt.
Next.
LittleMrJ November 6th, 2014 at 11:16 am
Derp, the news story you linked is true, but this article is not. They state different details! Did you even read them? Look at my profile, I live in Houston, I know what happened, & it ain’t what this article says. Also, that picture is Photoshopped to Hell. Don’t talk trash if you don’t even know what you’re talking about. The people agreeing with you are just as retarded. If you learn how to read more than a headline, you might actually understand things better.
Derp November 15th, 2014 at 5:56 pm
This is in fact the very same story. The problem is THIS SITE posted misinformation – the child was three years old, not three months. And yes DUH the image used is photoshopped because it’s not like a photographer was there when it happened to snap real pictures. What it does NOT change is yet another story of a ‘responsible gun owner’ securing his weapon properly. The gun did fall out. A child did get hold of it. The safety was not on and it was loaded and the child did indeed fire the weapon. The man did get shot in the face. The only inaccuracy was the age of the child which is really a moot point.
JM October 31st, 2014 at 10:36 am
ummm if this is accurate- which I doubt – perhaps one should be given an IQ test before being issued a gun or a child for that matter!
Wallace Torbert October 31st, 2014 at 5:22 pm
This is not the first time a child has obtained daddas gun and killed himself , brother, mom or even dad or a neighbors kid. The US has guns for everyone, no training required. Just load them up and head to Target where who knows if that gun has a safety or the open carry person will lose it, drop it. Or is the gun working properly? Training? I got your training right here…I watch old John Wayne movies and that prepper show…I’m an expert..BLAM!!!..WHAT WAS THAT?