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Only thing that stops a bad toddler with a gun by @BloggersRUs

Published by Tom Sullivan on May 6, 2016

Only thing that stops a bad toddler with a gun
by Tom Sullivan

They say admitting you have a problem is the first step in solving it. From the New York Times:

She had been napping in bed with her father, Courtenay Block, late last month when she discovered the 9-millimeter handgun he often kept under his pillow in his Kansas City, Mo., home. It was equipped with a laser sight that lit up like the red lights on her cousins’ sneakers. Mr. Block told the police he woke to see Sha’Quille by his bed, bleeding and crying, the gun at her feet. A bullet had pierced her skull.

In a country with more than 30,000 annual gun deaths, the smallest fingers on the trigger belong to children like Sha’Quille.

During a single week in April, four toddlers — Holston, Kiyan, Za’veon and Sha’Quille — shot and killed themselves, and a mother driving through Milwaukee was killed after her 2-year-old apparently picked up a gun that had slid out from under the driver’s seat. It was a brutal stretch, even by the standards of researchers who track these shootings.

The woman driving through Milwaukee was not the first this year shot in the back by her kid while driving.

They say admitting you have a problem is the first step in solving it.

Don’t hold your breath.

(h/t David Waldman @KagroX #GunFAIL)

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