Posted on 08/29/2023 9:42:09 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A Tennessee woman fatally shot a “scared” 4-year-old girl — then claimed to cops she was only trying to give the child a “gun safety lesson,” authorities say.
The suspect had allegedly hit the tot with a sandal right before for failing to wake the woman up and eating food without permission.
Breanna Runions, 25, was charged with murder and aggravated child abuse after allegedly pushing the loaded gun into little Evangaline Gunter’s chest and pulling the trigger at a home in Rockwood on Sunday, WBIR reported.
Runions, who was not the child’s mother, initially tried claiming to officers that she’d taken the magazine out of her 9mm handgun in the moments before giving the so-called firearm lesson, according to the arrest affidavit.
“Runions related that she then called Gunter over to show her firearm safety, at which point she pressed the barrel of the gun into the front of Gunter’s torso and pulled the trigger, discharging a round into Gunter,” the affidavit sai
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I recommend a gentle “rope-safety lesson” (no drop at the start).
It was an excited response. I was so f***** pissed off.
She got her firearm training course from the Alex Baldwin School of Firearm Training... 🤓
Great minds think alike...
“She made her point.”
Do NOT bring a sandal to a gun fight .. .
Nightsticks and public hangings would do wonders illustrating the value of self-control.
This is sickening. Poor child.
My reaction too.
I don’t doubt that at all. One dummy showing her skills...
Self professed experts are dangerous. Good training never fails and qualification for instructors training prevents a lot this. Go ask the military. They train hundreds of thousands. NRA too.
the article says she is not the mother
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