Boy kills girl with air gun

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MONROEVILLE, Ala. (AP) -- A 7-year-old boy fatally shot
a 5-year-old neighbor by firing an air gun at point-blank, but no
charges are expected against him, authorities said.

Sacorya Johnson was shot just above the left eye just after she
came home from school last Thursday, police Capt. C.H. Steen
said. Police were not sure if the pump air rifle was loaded with
pellets or BB shot, but a projectile entered the girl's skull.

Sacorya was taken to Monroe County Hospital, then flown by
helicopter to the University of South Alabama Women's and
Children's Hospital in Mobile, where she died Saturday.

Investigators said the gun had been hidden from the boy after
he was seen playing with it. He found it Thursday, authorities
said.

Representatives of the county's Child Death Review Board will
hear evidence about the case, and investigators were trying to
determine who, if anyone, could be held responsible, District
Attorney Tommy Chapman said. But because the courts have
ruled that a 7-year-old is too young to form intent to murder,
charges against the boy are unlikely, Chapman said Tuesday.

''Accidents happen,'' Chapman said. ''They have been for
years, and they are not going to stop accidental shootings with
any legislation.''

Neighborhood parents said they were watching children more
closely than before.

''She was a happy little girl,'' said Effie Graham, who lives
across the street from where the girl was shot. ''She was so
young -- that's what makes it so sad.''

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Hey,

The response should really be "Lock up ALL your F*@#ing guns" so they DON'T come after your Daisy, along with your Glock and my 1911.

Sheesh. :mad: And show some compassion.


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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>''Accidents happen,'' Chapman said. ''They have been for years, and they are not going to stop accidental shootings with any legislation.''[/quote]

This accident happened in my state. :( The news (at least on the channels I have watched) has been focusing on the fact that everyone needs to have better gun safety skills, instead of creating making more laws.
 
I think too many people don't treat BB guns and pellet guns seriously enough, that's why there are "accidental shootings". I don't think the gun "just went off". Rather parental responsibility wasn't worth a sh*t.
Kids need to be taught BB and pellet guns are REAL guns which CAN kill. Of course little kids are excited by these things. Why not! But next to our arms we think these rifles are toys, the kids read our attitudes. If we act as if it's a toy, they mimic us and excited mikey puts his friend's eye out. Or worse. Respect for the firearm should come early, and these toys ARE REAL GUNS. This is just as tragic, and irresponsible, as the killing of 1st grader Kayla. I'm sure the father of the "BB killer" wishes he could go back in time and do things differently, but too late now...you can't take back the bullet, even a bb.
 
Pellet/BB guns are as dangerous and lethal as "real" guns. ALL guns can kill. I notice that the parents had hidden the gun because the 7 yo had been playing with it. Evidently, it was not hidden well enough...

Lets watch the national news tonight, and see if Dan Blather, Tom Brokejaw, or Peter Lemmings treat this as "...ANOTHER GUN DEATH AT THE HANDS OF A CHILD..." (Wanna bet on this?)

Film at 11. Makes me wanna puke....
 
Not for nothing if parents are so worried about thier kids, why don't they ask thier friends parents if there are any guns in thier house. If there are guns how are they stored. Are the locked up away from prying, curious hands, and if not then my kid can't come over, but your kid is welcome to our house. Jeez sounds too easy. Maybe the parents just don't have enough time. IN my house growing up, and I'm only 31, guns were locked up. And if for some reason they weren't then we all knew better than to touch them.
 
OnTheWay:

During the French occupation of Spain possession of an air rifle was punishable by death. They were called "smokeless muskets" back then.

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ALARM! ALARM! CIVILIZATION IS IN PERIL! THE BARBARIANS HAVE TAKEN THE GATES!
 
When we were kids, my best buddy ran into my house, got my BB gun and shot the neighborhood COP's kid!!!

The ***COP's**** kid!!!!

Well, the cops all showed up. I had to go get my bb gun, bring it out and ALMOST lost it. But, my buddy told em he went in the house to get it so they let me keep it.

What precipitated the whole thing was a good wholesome rock fight.
 
Ed:

Don't come to Australia, then, mate. Here, an airgun IS a firearm (by legislation) and BB guns are banned as "prohibited weapons".

What a crying shame (the little kid, I mean, not our cock-eyed legislation).

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Thank god the air gun didn't have an 11 rd mag, bayonet lug, or a flash supressor. Then it would've been ugly...


It is a shame though.
 
I absolutely INSIST that gun safety rules are observed with all guns at my house; even with bright orange water pistols (sent a kid waving one of those around home) and "finger guns".
 
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