Kindergartner brings gun to Texas school!

[the_tyrant]

(CNN) -- Three kindergartners in a Houston elementary school were wounded Tuesday when a loaded handgun brought to the school by a student fell on the floor and discharged, the school district said.

None of the injuries was considered life-threatening, Houston Independent School District spokesman Jason Spencer said in a statement.

The two boys and one girl, all of them kindergarten students at Ross Elementary School, were taken to a hospital and their parents were notified, Spencer said. Two children, a boy and a girl, suffered foot wounds, and the other, a boy, was wounded in the leg.

The incident occurred in the school cafeteria at around 10:22 a.m. School district police are investigating how the 6-year-old who brought the gun to school -- one of the wounded children -- obtained the weapon, Spencer said.

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/04/19/tex...index.html

remember when we though it was absurd a few weeks ago when the tsa decided to check a 6 year old?

[Fish In The Water]

Wow...

I guess I'll ask the obvious question: What were the parents thinking? "Sure hon, leave the loaded gun laying around where little Jimmy can get a hold of it, what could go wrong?"

[Platapus]

Parents like this give responsible gun owners a bad name.

I hope they go after these parents.

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Parents like this give responsible gun owners a bad name.

I hope they go after these parents.

agreed, this is why guns go in safes, or on the top shelf of the closet in a lock box with a trigger lock.

personally, I didnt have unsupervised access to firearms until i was 16

[Freiwillige]

Agreed. Nail the parents to the cross on this one.

[Feuer Frei!]

CNN link dead.

Found thos from last year, very very similar:
http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-kinder...,2881480.story

B.O.T.:

Officials said the children, who were struck either by a single bullet or fragments from it

SOURCE

Was wondering about this actually.
How 3 people could get hurt by this.
1 i could understand, mayyybee 2, but 3?
Anyone confirm this can indeed happen? 1 bullet, 3 hits, by a dropped weapon? Or fragments?

Not to lessen the fact that thank God no-one was seriously injured, or worse, killed.

[onelifecrisis]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Parents like this give responsible gun owners a bad name.

"responsible gun owners"

That's a good one!

Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

"responsible gun owners"

That's a good one!

Not sure if troll.

[Molon Labe]

If responding with an F-bomb is an understandable and entirely appropriate response, then yes, it's a troll.

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

"responsible gun owners"

That's a good one!

They exist.

You can tell a responsible gun owner when you go to his home, and perhaps aside from the 200 year old antique musket above his fireplace mantle, you can't really tell whether or not he actually owns any working guns.

[onelifecrisis]

Originally Posted by CptLolPants

Not sure if troll.

Haha, that's cute, especially from someone who registered only days ago and has a whopping 8 posts worth of experience here.

Originally Posted by Molon Labe

If responding with an F-bomb is an understandable and entirely appropriate response, then yes, it's a troll.

I didn't see anyone drop an F-bomb.

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

They exist.

You can tell a responsible gun owner when you go to his home, and perhaps aside from the 200 year old antique musket above his fireplace mantle, you can't really tell whether or not he actually owns any working guns.

Well if you say so GR, but that seems a little off topic. Back on track, here are some ways to prevent your child from getting his or her hands on your gun:

1) Keep the gun locked in a safe protected by DNA-sampling, eye-scanning, voice-sampling technology. And never, ever forget to put it in there after you're done playing with it.
2) Don't own a gun.

The second one seems a lot simpler to me.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Parents like this give responsible gun owners a bad name.

I hope they go after these parents.

This. Never leave your home defense piece somewhere where Junior can get his grubby mitts on it.

[mookiemookie]

The gun did not belong to the parents:

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?se...cal&id=8085925

[GoldenRivet]

problem solved for only $99.95

[Ducimus]

Police believe the kindergartener who took the loaded gun to school got it from a family friend.

That's a little vauge mookie. I'm having a hard time swallowing that an adult gave this kid a loaded handgun. It is a reasonable conclusion that either the kid lifted the gun off an adult without their knowing, OR the "family friend" is another kid who did the same.

edit:
I'd be lying if i said i never played with my dads firearms as a kid without him knowing. I was a sneaky bugger, i found the key to the gun safe. I never did anything stupid (I was mischevious, but not stupid), but I figure If i did that little bit of sneaking around, my kid would do the same. Id expect no less from a chip off the old block, or any other kid for that matter.