Father tells 6-year-old with 3 years of gun training to lie after shooting sister in face
Source: Raw Story
A Wisconsin man is facing charges for allegedly telling his 6-year-old son, who had at least 3 years of firearms training, to lie after shooting his 4-year-old sister in the face with a shotgun.
In late August, WKBT reported that Jackson County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a home in the Town of Alma, where the 4-year-old girl had been struck in the side of the head with a shotgun blast.
According to the Jackson Country Chronicle, authorities in Jackson said this week that 48-year-old father Fred B. Maphis had told his son to say that the shotgun had accidentally gone off when he dropped it. But the son later admitted that the father instructed him to lie because he had pointed the gun at the girl and pulled the trigger.
The boy told authorities that his sister had asked him to aim the shotgun at her, but he had made the mistake of putting it too close to her ear.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/17/father-tells-6-year-old-with-3-years-of-gun-training-to-lie-after-shooting-sister-in-face/
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That's how we roll.
gun owner asking his own son to lie? Didn't happen, and the Liberal press and all of those "elitist" gun control proponents are just using this tragedy to make a baseless emotional statement.
More guns means a safer and more secure America, and we should thank the NRA from the bottom of our bleeding hearts for their protection of the Second Amendment and the Freedom to kill and wound each other. It's the American way!
And, if necessary...
first instruction in firearms, but I seem to recall that the section on "Don't shoot your sister in the head" is usually covered a bit earlier than the 4th year of the curriculum... 
Glad the girl will be OK, and I do hope the consequences for idiot-man are severe.
Your family played baseball, others are into hunting, fishing and shooting. Both introduce their kids to the family activities at a young age.
Six is a tad on the young side, but if the family are shooters/hunters/outdoors types letting a kid pink off some .22 under close supervision isn't anything to make a fuss over.
Why this kid was allowed the opportunity to wield a loaded 20ga shotgun is another question entirely. Ironically, lack of real "gun culture" (much of which would be better termed "gun safety culture"
is quite possibly the problem.
As a kid growing up in a neighbourhood where guns were ubiquitous, most people left their doors open, and almost everyone was an outdoor sportsman of one stripe or another, I got early, competent instruction in things like muzzle discipline, trigger discipline, "the gun is always loaded until proven otherwise, and even then its loaded..." from many people on numerous occasions. It didn't even need to be explained that those sorts of freedoms came with serious responsibilities and even seemingly minor transgressions of safety rules would not be tolerated by anyone.
A 6 year old doing some closely supervised plinking with a .22 down at the range wouldn't have caused much comment. A few "thats cute" and maybe some picture snapping, maybe. Someone who let a 6yo wield a loaded 20ga freely would have come close to an ass kicking, along with being ostracised until said idiot had seen fit to mend his ways and make profuse apologies. That is about as powerful a disincentive for stupidity as I can imagine in that cultural context, and it worked very, very well.
