Sunday, June 3, 2012

Accidental Fatal Shooting of 11-Year-old Georgia Girl by her Sibling with Parents Present - No Charges

ajc reports

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says an 11-year-old girl in north Georgia has been fatally shot, apparently by a sibling who was playing with a loaded handgun.

[Special agent in charge Jerry] Scott says the fatal shooting Friday night appears to have been a "tragic accident." The girl was riding in the back of a pickup truck with her siblings and other children when she was shot. Scott says it appears that one of the girl's siblings was playing with a handgun when she was shot. 

Their parents were in the cab of the truck.
Of course there'd be no mention of charges or responsibility, it was a "tragic accident."

What's your opinion?  Please leave a comment.

14 comments:

  1. That it isn't surprising?

    It's red neck Georgia, where guns are more important than people. If the parents are careless enough to let their kids ride in the bed of a truck, without seats or seatbelts, is it such a shock they wouldn't notice their kids had a loaded hand gun?

    This should be criminal negligence; these parents are so bad at it they should lose their guns and the custody of their children. In a sane world.

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    1. We already know about your prejudices against the South, but y'all do come on down here with that attitude. Y'all could learn a thing or two about mindin' your own business.

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    2. I get tired of you and Dog Gone and others calling us prejudiced when you refuse to acknowledge your own. Your view of the South comes from the 1950s, and it's long out of date.

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    3. That's not exactly true, greg. Our view of the South comes from surveys and polls, like the ones about education and obesity, to name just two.

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  2. Btw - mike did you see this story?
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18312692#

    It makes mention of the growing problems in Canada now, from guns coming over the border from the U.S.

    We're not only a problem, a bad neighbor to Mexico anymore it seems. Our gun culture is as destructive towards others as it is to us, well even more destructive to Mexico than we are to ourselves.

    Blame this on the gun manufacturers and the NRA for keeping us a backward nation when it comes to firearms. Time for us to join the rest of the civilized world in the 21st century, not the 19th.

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    1. We've already discussed this, Dog Gone. Calling us a bad neighbor for Mexico? Oh, that's rich.

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  3. Posted at Kid Shootings: http://kidshootings.blogspot.com/2012/06/11-year-old-georgia-girl-killed-by.html

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  4. So stupid when they write off these things as just a "tragic accident" and don't apply charges. These are stupid people and unfit parents who have unsecured guns around their children. They need to be held responsible and have their guns removed, permanently. Otherwise, there's nothing to keep it from happening again.

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    1. Absolutely right. The pro-gun folks complain that we often want to remove guns before there's cause, well in these cases there's plenty of cause and they still object.

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    2. It's because we can't trust you to be reasonable. If taking guns away from people who cause harm were the only thing that you wanted, we could work together. The problem is that you want so much more. That being the case, we can't cooperate with you.

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    3. Mike, don't you love how Greg reads minds? Why, he's a regular psychic medium! 'Course, he'd go out of business if he tried to be one....

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    4. There's nothing supernatural about reading both of your stated positions and seeing your attitudes and then drawing a conclusion. What does amaze me is that you think yourself to be fooling anyone.

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