Reuters - Miami toddler killed by gunshot in home

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Miami toddler killed by gunshot in home


Updated 11:58 AM ET March 24, 2000
MIAMI (Reuters) - A three-year-old Miami girl died after she apparently shot herself with a gun she found in her home, police said Friday.
Police said the father of Alisha Jackson told them she shot herself with a pistol she found in the house Thursday evening. An investigation was underway and the death had not yet been classified, police spokeswoman Nelda Fonticiella said.

As many as 20 children under the age of five die every year in the United States from unintentional shootings in the home, according to statistics from gun control advocates.

The distraught father, Tary Jackson, telephoned the police after the shooting and was hugging the girl when a unit arrived.

"We found her with a fatal gunshot wound to the chest. He said she was playing with the gun," Fonticiella said.

She was airlifted to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.

Neighbors quoted by local media said Jackson had been chatting to friends in his front yard moments before the shooting. It was not clear who the gun belonged to.

The shooting comes at a time of national debate over gun safety, fueled by a series of mass shootings in U.S. schools and workplaces.

Last week Smith & Wesson, the country's biggest handgun manufacturer, agreed to install child trigger locks and develop technology to prevent anyone but a gun's owner from firing it. In response the government dropped the threat of a costly lawsuit against the company.

Gun control advocates say that almost 1,000 Americans die every year from unintentional shootings in the home, and that in 1997, the latest year for which statistics are available, 306 children up to the age of 19 were killed in such circumstances.

The Washington-based Center to Prevent Handgun Violence, which fights for stronger gun laws, said that in 1997 20 children aged between one and four were killed by unintentional shootings.

"These sad tragedies happen too often. Many of these tragedies could be prevented if guns were stored more securely. The risk of having guns in the home are enormous," said David Bernstein, a spokesman for the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence.

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Note that all background stats were supplied by 'gun control advocates' in general and CPHV in particular. Nowhere in the story is there any indication that Reuters sought comment from any RKBA group.

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EVERY FRICKIN' DAY NOW, ANOTHER ONE OF THE "CHILDREN" INCIDENTS.

What the HELL was that gun doing where that BABY (well, toddler) could get at it????

The PARENT is responsible here. Why was that weapon not SAFED (as in no bullet in chamber, safety ON)? I don't know of too many toddlers that can rack a slide.

If this irresponsible parent/dead kid crap keeps up for another month or so, I expect a presidetial EO instituting a temporary ban on handgun purchases, and perhaps a whole lot more.

This is now a DAILY EVENT. These stupid parents should have been STERILIZED years ago, so as not to contaminate the gene pool.

WTF?
 
Reuters - as many as 20 'children'/day??? Oh, come now. Then there's 20 kids under 5 accidently killed by guns in 1997, nevermind that 35 died that year in accidents involving 5 gallon buckets, we won't even get into bicycles and swimming pools. Whomever left that gun around where that little girl could find it needs to go to jail, but the wimps will probably wanna let him off because,'he's suffered enough', afterall, it was that evil gun's fault. Gawd, I feel ill. M2
 
If there is applicable law, put him in jail.

No, we do not need new ones that mandate
use of trigger locks. However, if a case
can be made of negligent something - fry him.

I don't buy that his loss is enough punishment. We need the deterrent out there.

Note my subtle point. I say put the onus on the parent to provide safety for the gun.
I don't want the state saying I do XYZ.
IF you fail, then the law should get you.
 
It's a very sad day for everyone invloved. No matter how one loses a child the pain is no more or no less great and the pain will be in their hearts for the rest of their lives.

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Dennis Olsen...

Be careful what you wish for!

No matter what legislation is passed to prevent these things from happening, they will still happen. You and I both know that. Big Brother would like to make everyone think that a new law will make everything better (and safer). But all these new laws do is give our government more and more power over us. These types of accidental shootings merely point to a larger problem in our society of irresponsible parents/guardians.

But you need to be careful about promoting the line in which parents should be punished for the criminal actions of their children. Remember how HCI defines "children" (they include adolescents up to the age of 24). In what is becoming a "police state" here in the U.S., think of the repercussions of a law like that.

Additionally, sterilization, selective abortions, and euthanasia are all a part of an Elitist movement of creating a "master race" and "population control" called "Eugenics". Most of us are aware that sterilization programs were quite popular here in the United States in the first half of the last century. Much of the eugenics movement has simply hidden behind legitimate sounding organizational names. Check out the UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) if you need convincing that this movement is quite popular with the Globalists.

It all comes down to listening to the rumbling beneath the ground. What are they REALLY saying here? What they are saying is that government should (will) be responsible for everyone, almost "God-like".

Nothing about that picture looks like FREEDOM to me.
 
No Paul, you misunderstand me.

The parent needs to be punished for THEIR OWN CRIME, that of supplying a firearm to a minor. THAT is the "real" crime here. The USE of the firearm is only the SYMPTOM.

As for the sterilization comment, that was in exasperation over these IDIOTS who are responsible for supplying yet MORE ammunition to the anti-2nd fascists.
 
Dennis Olson...

I'm with you. It's very frustrating because of this relentless attack by the media. Just remember we're the good guys!
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Mike in VA:
Reuters - as many as 20 'children'/day??? Oh, come now. Then there's 20 kids under 5 accidently killed by guns in 1997, nevermind that 35 died that year in accidents involving 5 gallon buckets, we won't even get into bicycles and swimming pools. Whomever left that gun around where that little girl could find it needs to go to jail, but the wimps will probably wanna let him off because,'he's suffered enough', afterall, it was that evil gun's fault. Gawd, I feel ill. M2[/quote]
Mike - I think the article says 20 under the age of 5 per year. I belive that is correct ( ish)


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Rob
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America is a very large country. If the media wants to find examples, they will find them.

The question is: why did they choose to air this story? Statistically speaking, in the last few days I am sure a child has died of drinking poison from under a sink, getting into some iron supplements or aspirin etc, drowning in a bucket, having an accident with a kitchen knife or razor blade....and these are just a few examples of the freak accidents that happen every day.
How many kids do you think died of more common things like drowning in a bathtup or pool, in car accidents, bicycle accidents etc etc.

The FBI has stated before that the media is the only one responsible for creating crime waves, and this is not because a certain crime or accident happens more, but only because they report it more often and it appears to be a problem.

The MEDIA decided to run this story and ignore all the other kids in this huge country that die every day from accidents. They are creating the problem or at least the illusion thereof.




[This message has been edited by Red Bull (edited March 24, 2000).]
 
while the death of any kid is sad the bigger
tragedy is the overall lose of values in this
country and the media playing the american
public, note the media does very little on the loss of children to cancer,drunk drivers,
child abuse, etc. The gun is an easy (target).The national news media is a shame,
they will prostitute themselves on any subject, they have no standards and I feel
they do not know the meaning of "fair"
Charlton Heston is right when he says we are
in a cultural war,it is just that and I am
concerned as we lose our middleclass that
it will grow worse.


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[This message has been edited by bullet44 (edited March 24, 2000).]
 
If the past is prologue, this father will be on TV pushing for new gun laws.

A few years back, a woman was making the talk show circuit, talking about banning guns. Her 15 year old daughter had committed suicide with a gun the mother had left on the top of the dresser. The daughter had tried to commit suicide five times prior to that.

They just don't get it.

Dick
 
Redbull, I was thinking the same thing. Usually, I think the media has a specific agenda they choose to promote and sometimes I think some of these people are so bored and removed from real life that they need to kick an anthill and watch us little folks try and defend whats' left.

Monkeyleg, Exactly.
 
Unfortunately, the story didn't put those numbers in perspective. I found a great site that breaks down various types of accidental deaths by year/age/number/rate:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/osp/usmort.htm

This is for ages 0-4, for 1997:
Unintentionl firearm: 20
Drowning: 516
Falling: 59
Fire: 393
Motor vehicle: 933
Unintentional suffocation: 521
Unintentional Poisoning: 39

To "save the children" guns would be one of the lasat things you would ban, at least if you argued rationally.
 
Oh my God! Oh my God! Not a child! Ban those evil guns! What if somebody shoots my poor Jonny at soccer practice? Melt all guns now!

grrrrrrrrrr it doesn't look good for us gun owners.
 
The jerk who left the gun out has not "suffered enough" nor will he ever. Although, he'll probably try to pass himself off as some kind of victim--the alternative (that he take responsibility for his own actions) is probably inconceivable to him.

Anybody here ready to defend this stupid bast*rd's right to own a gun in the future? His lack of responsibility, and those like him, is costing us.
 
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