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.

[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.

[GoldenRivet]

i have always subscribed to the notion that if a child is to grow up with respect for something he should be introduced to it early.

allow your kid to have a beer once in a while when he is 13 years old. dont let him get trashed mind you... dont hook him up with a can of beer every week... but one twelve ounce can of beer with the old man around a camp fire, or one can of beer on some other special occasion wont kill him. it yanks the mystique out of alcohol. it makes it less risque and mysterious.

the same applies to guns

Allow your kid to accompany you to the gun range, or on a hunting trip when he is a curious child. Buy him a .22 and let him shoot it under strictly controlled supervision.

when you allow kids to do these things in moderation - they usually grow up to look at it as being no big deal. thereby finding it easier to resist the temptation and peer pressure to get drunk, or to play with a gun.

face it, kids do things like that because they are curious about the forbidden fruit aspect. its appealing to them because it is strictly off limits.


EDIT:

on the case of it not belonging to the parents... thats what makes my statements here more sensible. the kid could theoretically find himself in a situation to receive a gun from anyone... a neighbor kid, a friend, a friend of the family who was watching the kids for a couple of hours. it might not come from the parents, so the kid has to be equipped - raised - to believe that guns are not this forbidden, tempting thing.

like my mom told me once "You can't watch your kid all the time."