Posted on 01/24/2006 12:01:35 PM PST by zaxxon
GERMANTOWN, Md. (AP) -- A gun brought to a day care center by an 8-year-old boy accidentally went off Tuesday, wounding a 7-year-old girl in the arm, police said.
The boy had the gun in a backpack and was playing with it when it went off at the For Kids We Care center, Montgomery County police spokesman Derek Baliles said.
The girl was taken to Children's Hospital in Washington, he said. Her injury was not considered life-threatening.
There were six children in the center at the time of the shooting, which happened around 7 a.m. No one else was hurt.
Officers were interviewing the boy Tuesday afternoon to find out how he got the weapon and how it was fired. Police also plan to talk to the other children and to the boy's parents.
Names of the children, both from Germantown, a suburb of Washington, were not released. They were dropped off by their parents at the center, which provides care before school hours as well as daylong care for younger children.
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"Police also plan to talk to the other children and to the boy's parents."
I'm betting "parents" = "parent". Singular.
There are a hell of a lot of gun-related stories in the news lately. I'll be looking for a major push for more gun control this year.
The flurry of gun "protection" laws from this should be interesting.
Sheesh! The boy's parents are in big trouble on this one. Yes, parents have a responsibility to secure the firearms in their home, or teach their brats to keep their hands off them.
Looks like this kid's parents failed on both counts.
I hope your right, the republicans could use another big electoral victory if the dems try to take away peoples guns again.
The law should be if your kid gets a gun from your home and is caught you are prosecuted. No more control please it does not work.
Why? Many of the kids who've shot and killed classmates at school came from two-parent homes. Kip Kinkel even killed his two parents first, before heading off to shoot up the school.
"accidentally went off"
Love it......went off. Sheesh.
What are the real statistics on accidental shootings in the U.S.
Some people have been tossing around a lot of statistics here (Canada) to support the Liberal hand gun ban. (Even though the Liberals were defeated, this is sure to come up again.)
For instance, some said that 2/3 of those shot in home invasions were actually family members, who were shot accidently.
That are the true facts? (Not the fake but true facts.)
I'm betting it is butt whipping time.
"I'm betting "parents" = "parent". Singular."
That was my first thought or else it will be mom and her live in boyfriend....
Careful. The last time a child was shot in day care I made a similar comment and was told it was a "new low" for free republic because there was nothing in the article that it was a single parent.
I was up late last night, I am tired.
When you hear about a kid shooting another kid, single parent households appear most often (by my observations).
You may be able to cite a few cases of kids killing at school (very rare), but every other "child" violence statistic goes the other way. Most of them are inner-city kids with a single parent in the household, and a marginal parent, at that.
The boy who killed a 6 year-old girl in Flint, Michigan had taken his drug-dealing cousin's pimp gun while his single mother was riding the bus to her token "workfare" job.
Gee, thanks. I'm a single mom, and my son never shot anyone.
Also, I believe the Columbine killers came from 2 parent homes.
Or perhaps estranged.
Not necessarily. Look at all the cases of kids going to schools and intentionally killing people, most came from a two-parent household.
Most of these accidents that happen could have been avoided if the child had been taught basic gun safety.
We live in a rural area and gun safety is pretty much taught from the cradle here. We also have not had any accidental shootings in our county since this deer hunter had a seizure, feel from a stand and the gun accidentally discharged, hitting him.
Kids who are raised in homes where gun-handling and safety is taught tend to not do crap like this.
He was raised in a nice house, too, by politically correct parents. Years ago, it was just shacks up the Booth Kelly road and we kids all had guns and would hunt in that area after school. I learned to dance the bop in that cafeteria where he let fly. We hear he used to have fun blowing up cows before this happened, and the parents would wring their hands. Maybe there was a hint he was NKR, (not quite right as we used to say.)
Never a problem with us kids and guns. We all had 'em. Plenty of fist fights, though.
"Kids who are raised in homes where gun-handling and safety is taught tend to not do crap like this."
Very true. That's why I said that parents should either lock their firearms up or teach their children. Looks like neither happened in this case.
I find this hard to believe. I live 2 miles away and happen to know that you can't even possess guns within 100 feet of a school, park, day care center, etc.
Shootings by teenage gangsters on the street are indeed mostly done by inner city kids from mother-only homes. But the shootings IN schools, I think are done by kids from a fairly representative array of family structures. The street thugs rarely attend school on a regular basis (if at all), and even when they do, they usually have to pass through metal detectors to get in.
Stories like these show the need for mandatory weapons training for children as young as eight.
Amazing how these obvious red flags get ignored. Same with Jeffrey Dahmer, who had fun decapitating the neighbor's dog, among his other amusements. I don't entirely blame the parents, though, since I've read of enough cases where parents tried to get their psycho kid locked up, and nobody would do it until AFTER the kid killed someone.
There was a kid in New Jersey a few years back who murdered a little Boy Scout who came to his home selling something for a fundraiser. Turns out the killer had previously been molested in a serious way by an older man he met online, who lured him off somewhere to meet. That fact was already known to authorities, when the parents went begging a court to haul their now seriously disturbed son off to residential treatment. They knew they were in over their heads, and tried to head off tragedy, but nobody would help until AFTER the kid committed a cold-blooded murder of another child.
I've seen Freepers do stuff just as foolish. They treat them as toys, not tools. They do tend to get mad when you point it out.
If you lived in Maryland, as I do, "interesting" would not be your choice of adjective to describe what is likely to result from this. The Maryland legislature is dominated by RATS with the worst sort of entitlement, hysterical, protectionist mentalities you could imagine. The "babies" will have to be protected, and the evil gun owners make, as always, an easy target. I fear bad times are on the horizon.
the parent(s) would do time in MN. (as they should), but I wonder why any one can lend a car to any fool and that's just fine.
(Point of order, the last 2 school shootings in MN involved guns obtained from parents who were cops so the "only cops should own guns" crap doesn't wash here.)
Father charged after boy shoots girl at day-care center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564353/posts
that boy's father should be locked up and place under the
jail ..due to his negligence with the gun in his home. And too, the boy was only doing what he has seen by his STUPID
father. His ignorance certainly paid off. He should definitely be charged for this act, not the son.
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