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billh58

(6,641 posts)
Sun May 22, 2016, 01:52 PM May 2016

'My sister shot herself': 5-year-old dies playing with father’s unsecured handgun

They had a day of family fun ahead of them.

Eric Moore, a father of three from LaPlace, La., was planning to take his kids out to eat before heading to the movie “Angry Birds.”

Before they left the house, police said, Moore jumped in the shower.

“The father said he was taking a shower when he heard a gunshot,” Lt. Greg Baker of the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office told NBC affiliate WDSU. “He got out of the shower, and that’s when he discovered that his daughter had accidentally shot herself.”

Five-year-old Haley Moore had been playing with her father’s handgun, police said. Moore told investigators that he had left his .45-caliber gun out on a table in the home, the station reported.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/my-sister-shot-herself-5-year-old-dies-playing-with-father%e2%80%99s-unsecured-handgun/ar-BBtkLRH?li=BBnbfcL


"Accidentally" shot herself? Really? This was no more an accident than if the father had pulled the trigger himself. Who in the hell leaves a gun within reach of a child? Reckless endangerment? No, this is manslaughter or murder pure and simple.

And no, the father has NOT suffered enough -- the children of our society have, because Second Amendment absolutist gun nuts have to have their millions of unsecured lethal weapons because: Freedom!
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'My sister shot herself': 5-year-old dies playing with father’s unsecured handgun (Original Post) billh58 May 2016 OP
Question for the gun-savvy MH1 May 2016 #1
Not having a round in the chamber is the simplest thing to do Kaleva May 2016 #3
I was looking for something a little more idiot-proof. MH1 May 2016 #4
I feel no sympathy for the father. Kaleva May 2016 #2
No accident when a child has access to a loaded gun. mountain grammy May 2016 #5

MH1

(18,127 posts)
1. Question for the gun-savvy
Sun May 22, 2016, 02:27 PM
May 2016

Aren't there devices that can make it impossible or at least very difficult* for a child to pull the trigger, but still leave the gun usable for an adult of normal strength?

All these child deaths seem so unnecessary.

(* obviously, "child-proof" caps on pill bottles aren't, at least not 100% - but they stop some and slow down the others, and thus have saved lives.)

MH1

(18,127 posts)
4. I was looking for something a little more idiot-proof.
Sun May 22, 2016, 02:38 PM
May 2016

I dunno, like maybe a trigger pull that requires more strength than 99% of 6 year-olds would have?

Kaleva

(38,062 posts)
2. I feel no sympathy for the father.
Sun May 22, 2016, 02:32 PM
May 2016

He's devastated? He should be sitting in jail right now, awaiting formal charges, spending his time thinking about how he killed a child.

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