2-year-old in critical condition; apparently shot self, police say

[maxsolomon]

Source: Seattle Times

A 2-year-old boy was in critical condition at Harborview Medical Center Monday after apparently shooting himself with a handgun in a Georgetown motel, police said.

Authorities say they are pursuing felony weapons charges against the mother’s boyfriend, who detectives say is a felon and not allowed to possess a gun. No further details about the couple were available.


Read more: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/toddler-in-critical-condition-at-harborview-with-gunshot-wound/

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Charges are being brought against the responsible adult. Hopefully its not just Felony Possession.

[Feeling the Bern]

1. More good, responsible gun ownership.

[anigbrowl]

2. Feel good, gun humpers?

I know you're checking this thread. Congratulations!

[cstanleytech]

3. Just wondering do you think your plan of making a denigrating comment about gun owners

will help sway many people to see your point?

And before you fly off the handle keep in mind I dont own any guns myself (never saw the reason to own one) and I have been pro registration and pro banning of automatic assault weapons for decades but if I was on the fence I have doubts that your denigrating comments would help sway me, in fact I might be tempted to go to the other extreme just to put some distance between us.

[anigbrowl]

4. Nope, and I don't care

My objective is not to persuade anyone but to make uncritical supporters of gun availability feel shitty. I have spent >25 years making reasonable diplomatic arguments for why we need more gun control and trying to meet opponents of same half way. Meanwhile many thousands have died and gun rights proponents have chosen to ignore that and rely on the same old cliche arguments and rhetorical tricks. So I have decided to stop being nice and persuasive and diplomatic and make humiliating remarks at their expense instead. Gun humpers show little respect for others and it is time they were repaid in their own coin.

[cstanleytech]

6. Well if that's what you want but I think it's more likely to end up with you either

being added to alot of peoples ignore list not to mention the potential risk of your posts being removed leading to a temp ban.

[raven mad]

7. anigbrowl, I own exactly 2 guns.

A shotgun, and one rifle. Both are over 20 years old, and kept in shape. The rifle goes with me back country, and up here, you'd better have something more than a bear bell or spray. The shotgun's last use was being fired in the air to scare a mama moose and her twins out of a neighbor's yard. My neighbor's children were in that yard and mama moose perceived a threat. By a 5 and 3 year old.

Not everyone who owns guns, legally, licensed, is a "gun humper".

I am a strong supporter of gun control, but some outright prejudice is just as bad as any other bigotry. And yeah, I'd gladly fire my shotgun to be sure your kids were safe. Mama moose and twins ran off. Kids got scolded by mom for being too curious (in a fenced yard).

I'm 62 years old and have never fired a weapon, except when I was in the Air Force and required to do so, at so much as a human paper target.

[Night Watchman]

5. Jesus!

And I'm agnostic! But some things are just so shockingly bad that one's immediate response is primitive!

[raven mad]

8. And I hope she serves the max.

Unacceptable is a really wimpy word for this. How in the HELL do people who feel they have a need for a gun (and I'm glad I have mine, they saved some possible real damage) and don't bother to lock it up? Last use of gun of any type for me? Scaring a mama moose and twins away from some little kids who didn't perceive the danger.

I think it was 3 or 4 years ago. But I'm glad I had it, because banging the pots and pans at mama moose was doing no good at all, and yes, they can be VERY mean to any other mammalian/canine/feline it thinks is threatening their young.

I really hate that idiots are allowed to even think about a gun.

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. I worry about my neice and her husband.

They are expecting . He has a 44. Plus a whole bunch of other rifles and stuff.

My brother said they have a really good gun safe and also some kind of gun safe that is beside the bed. But what worries me are the times someone comes in, lays the gun on the table meaning to put it away, and forgets that it's there, gets busy and just walks away.

It just makes me so nervous to have any guns in the house with kids. I remember what my brother and I were like. There wasn't anything that we didn't manage to find a way to get into.

I am not especially anti gun but guns and kids just don't mix.

[Sunlei]

11. The adults did not even call police. They took the child to hospital & hospital called police!

[Aristus]

12. That's because gun-buddy is a felon. He knew keeping a gun was wrong.

He wasn't going to call the police just because a child had been shot...

After all, what's more important? The life of a child? Or one's police record?

[ManiacJoe]

13. May have been quicker than calling an ambulance.

The felon in illegal possession of the gun was certainly not going to call the police.

[jpak]

14. Who was the law-abider that sold the asshole boyfriend the "life-saving device"?

[ManiacJoe]

15. You may need to backtrack more than one step

to get to the last legal purchaser.

The gun will be traced. My money says the media will do to follow up.