For years the Republican Party and the NRA have been screaming the Second Amendment needs to be protected from gun-grabbing liberals. Liberals have tried to explain that we don’t want their guns, we just want common sense laws to be put in place so that maybe gun owners would stop being so damn irresponsible. We want to prevent kids from dying or being injured because their parents aren’t practicing proper gun safety. We are sick of talking about things like the 3-year-old Florida toddler who shot his 1-year-old sister in the face on Friday.
The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Department says the incident occurred Friday at 4:30 p.m. in a car outside the Sonshine Learning Center, in Venice. Deputies say the kids’ mother was in the parking lot talking to other people when the 3-year-old boy picked up a gun that was left in the car and shot his 1-year-old sister in the face.
The little girl was flown to Bayfront Health and then was transferred to All Children’s Hospital, in St. Petersburg, with non-life threatening injuries. The police are calling it a “tragic accident” and say no criminal charges were filed, but they are still investigating.
An accident… okay.
Earlier this year about 50 miles away from this “accident” a 2-year-old was left alone in a car with a gun and killed himself. Police called that a “tragic accident” as well, and no charges were filed.
These are the accidents that we are trying to prevent and they happen all the time. Just type “toddler finds gun” into Google and pages and pages and pages of these sorts of “tragic accidents” pop up. You will see stories about toddlers shooting themselves, their mothers, their grandparents, their siblings, etc.
So at what point do we stop calling them “tragic accidents” and call them what they are: negligence. These people need to be charged with a crime when they leave loaded weapons in places that a child can get ahold of it. I’m sick and tired of hearing ammosexual parents boohooing and getting off scot-free when their kids hurt or even kill themselves, or someone else, with a weapon that should have never been within reach.
The Republican Party and the NRA do not care about dead kids, obviously, but let’s stop sitting around and just blaming the right. If we can make Obama the 4th president in U.S. history to be elected with more than 50 percent of the popular vote twice, then we can damn sure band together and get gun safety measures passed. Our kids are being Second Amendmented to death and we aren’t doing anything about it; that’s sick.
Watch a news report about the Sarasota shooting below:
Featured image via WTSP
Odd isn’t it, when motorcycle gang members shoot others up, the authorities seldom call those accidents but when a mommy leaves a loaded gun where a toddler has access to it and he shoots a sibling, that is usually called an accident. Of course, when you leave a toddler in a car, that can result in a charge of child neglect but I suppose as long as the kid has access to a firearm, that is perfectly okay, right?
That is a fabulous observation. I would have one caveat to add to this if this had happened in a black household there would have been arrests
If you leave kids alone the car alone when it is hot, it is a crime. When you leave kids alone in the car, it is an accident. Makes perfect sense to me.
This is NOT an accident.
The parent is responsible and should be held accountable.
What a load… why would the parent need a loaded gun to go to a christian daycare, leave the kids unattended in a car… both are acts of criminal negligence.
Well, with the way christians behave these days, she should have carried the gun into the daycare.
My best friends wife works at All Children’s in St Pete. She says they see this type of thing every other month in Tampa/St Pete. Ya gotta understand, Florida in an armed camp. They’re still waitin for Che and the boys to invade.
Tragic accident? Criminal neglect, child endangerment is what it was. Of course in gun country everyone looks the other way. Children’s lives are expendable, but guns left where kids can easily get to them? Sacred. What a sick society we have become where guns are worshiped and dead kids are referred to as victims of “tragic accidents”.
This is not a freak accident. This is negligence and child endangerment. It would have been easy to prevent.
It is only labelled a tragic accident when the parents are white, call it what it is “white privilege”.
Ted Nugent says this a “big lie” nothing to see people move along…