Boy (6) with 3 years of firearms training from father, shoots sister (4) in the face with shotgun.
The boy said the girl asked him to point the gun at her, and he said he aimed it too close to her ear while trying to aim past her shoulder.
Maphis said firearms in the house typically are locked and not accessible to children, but he had forgotten to put away the shotgun and unload it. He said the gun was left on top of a dog kennel in a room after he had been shooting at birds attacking his chickens the previous days.
The boy’s mother told the sheriff’s department the boy has been shooting firearms since he’s been 3 years old and he has a .22-caliber rifle he’s allowed to shoot with parental supervision, according to the complaint.
Maphis is charged with leaving a loaded firearm near a child and obstructing an officer, both misdemeanors. He has an initial court appearance scheduled for Sept. 23.
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The good news is the father's just been charged with misdemeanors, so there's no chance his guns will have to go to a gun orphanage.
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Instead of using gun therapy for chasing birds away from chickens, use some sustainable farming techniques where the birds are protected in roaming coops, which in turn, fertilizes the land, and an introduction of animals working in a symbiotic manner, so you don't have to shoot them?
Or, maybe this should be a poster for the Darwin Awards.... What kind of procreating mental midget does this? burp.... fart...
15 yo students, who has many years of hunting and shooting under his belt already, shot himself in the thigh this summer while cleaning one of his guns, narrowly missing a self-gelding.
His family doesn't seem concerned, nor does he. No charges were filed against the parents, but that's not a surprise. Guns and kids are a normal part of the local culture. 
but definitely not idiots awash with guns.
is a 4 year old with a gun. If only that girl lived in a house with access to a gun....
more guns means more gun accidents and suicides. More kids, family, friends, etc. 
The birds attacking the chickens can wait until you get the gun out of the locked safe.
Jeremiah 5:21.
who believes he knows better than child developmental experts who would tell him a 3 yr old
should never be trained to fire a gun. That even though that 3 yr old now has years of experience,
he still does not have the capacity to understand the ramifications at the ripe old age of 6.
We would never want such a precaution in place reflected in a law, nope. Instead, we'll
appreciate that the little girl survived and all's well that ends well.
USA USA USA!!!
The boy’s mother told the sheriff’s department the boy has been shooting firearms since he’s been 3 years old and he has a .22-caliber rifle he’s allowed to shoot with parental supervision, according to the complaint.
And these people should own guns?
of a true daddy. taught his son to be careless. taught his son to disrespect authority figures. And he taught him to LIE. Great Dad Award goes to this RIP.
sums up more than words. was I talking about them???
Not only did the sister lose her life, but now the boy will have serious issues for the rest of his life. I've met parents like this - they think he's old enough to handle a gun because they 'taught' him, they will also think that him shooting his sister is HIS fault, and they will probably never let him forget it. Neighbors of ours let their 7 year old drive a snowmobile around (in town, where it was against the law no less) when my kids were playing outside. I heard the sound but rushed outside too late, the 7 year old boy ran over my 8 year old daughter. Thankfully, there was about 2 feet of fresh, soft snow and my daughter just sank (sunk?) into it as the vehicle went over her legs, and she was fine. I gathered up my kids and took them inside and read them the riot act about being around kids driving ATVs or snowmobiles.
An hour later, the dad knocks on my door with his little boy, and starts yelling at his kid in front of me telling him to apologize and then instead of apologizing for letting his kid drive around, he said he was sorry that his kid 'was being a little asshole' and that his kid 'should've known better'. WTF? He's SEVEN. He shouldn't BE DRIVING. How fucking dumb are some people?
If something had happened to my daughter, I can guarantee that dad would've been blaming his kid for it. Parents like this piss me off to no end. Some people have NO idea what is developmentally appropriate for their kids. I consider it abuse. I have memories of my parents yelling at me or hitting me for things I would've had NO idea about at those ages. I even remember thinking, as I was being hit, "I don't know what I did!" Now that I have kids, I'm like WTF is WRONG with people like this?
I really feel for that little boy, he's going to be so messed up
