Whats people's views on the 12yr old girl wh died from a gunshot to the head by her brother?

Question

The "powerful" firearm was in their house, to me it was an accident waiting to happen

Sorry yes think he is being questioned, even if he did do it I don't think it could of bein intentional but now his life is in ruins as well

Answer 1

I'd like to know why the parents didn't make sure to keep the gun out of their reach.

Answer 2

A pure tragedy. I'm sure he didn't mean it, was probably just joking around, unaware of exactly what he was doing.

Guns do just sit around and wait to be used though, that's why I say it's best not to have them...

Terrible...

Just read the article though, it's interesting- there's no indication of how the gun got into the house- the boy is 17. It could have belonged to his parents, and got into his hands by accident, or it could be something even more sinister- a drug connection? I was reading somewhere after the shooting of the boy in London how drug dealers were increasingly using kids and young men as cheap gunsmen. It could be that the brother was given the gun to do some other work for an underworld character of some kind, and before- or possibly after- the work was done, he shot the sister as an accident, some kind of squabble, or maybe under the influence of alcohol or drugs... I can't see anyone of sound mind shooting their own sister in cold blood, the mind rebels at the very though of it...

Still tragic though- I feel sorry for them all.

Interesting to note though, that some people are assuming this is an American incident, when it actually took place in Manchester.

Answer 3

I'm not familiar with the specific incident, but it sounds like another poster child for gun safety.

While the debate following such tragedies is often focused around whether guns should be in the home at all, the much more cogent issue is that people who own guns should know how to handle them safely - and that includes keeping them away from very small children, just like any other danger in the house, and teaching your older kids how to handle guns safely.

AFAIK, there's no formal program to do that. I learned gun safety from my parents, because both sides of my family had always had guns, and had always treated them with the propper respect. Thus, I have never lost a relative to a tragic accident like the one you referenced.

Answer 4

People die frequently from gunshot to the head. Either the victim or at least one other person busted a cap while bore was in line of travel to skull impact. It is not uncommon for brothers to kill sisters with firearms, "powerful' or not, but in all deaths by firearms the weapon itself must be handled by
some entity before discharge occurs. A monkey in a cage with the weapon could discharge it. The weapon needs to be made ready to discharge before it can throw a projectile someplace. Firearms have no brains. That said can we narrow down the list of suspects for these 'accidents'?

The question is would these victims all be any safer if their shooter had in-lieu-of a firearm simply : bowie knife, cross-bow, dirk, edged sword, flaming arrows, grizzly bear, H- bomb, ichorous fangs, javelin, kilo of C-4 explosive, leopard, mace, narcotic, octane gasoline, peavey, quaff of poison, razor, spear, tiger, unnatural desires, various deadly herbs, war club, X-File xenophobia, yearnings, zap zappy?

Victims can die from any of these 'accidents' waiting to happen but before we dispose of all these "waiting to happen" things can't the one who most frequently uses firearm be eliminated first? Is there a test or something that can seperate criminals, idiots, and the mentally ill from the rest of us? I suggest this because I like my peavey and would hate to give it up so some nut case can't walk off with it for killing.

Answer 5

Apparently they are a nice family with nothing to do with drugs or crime according to a resident, i would love to ask this person what a nice family is doing with loaded firearms in the house. Unfortunately guns have become a fasion item along with staffordshire bull terriors and its normally below adverage intelligence hoodies and track suit wearing f'tards who own them.

Answer 6

To me, with respect, the whole world is an accident waiting to happen. We are in 2007 now, we could probably blow the whole world up if we wanted to. So the fact that the gun was in somone's house is irrelevant. Obviously, no one put it there with the intention of that girl getting shot, who knows why they had it, maybe protection. But i feel most sorry for the boy. He may as well been shot too. His whole life will be eaten up with guilt and suicidal feelings. He will never forget what he did (by accident) and it will haunt him for the rest of his life. He wil then grow up f*uked up and then fu*k up someone elses life, probably even his own kids. As this will give him SERIOUS issues regarding his personality and his outlook on life. I feel so sorry for the family. To be in that situation is like hell. My condolences are with them all.

Answer 7

The gun should have been out of reach. The "powerful" firearm as you say could range from a BB gun and upwards. It is the fault of the parents, not the gun.

Answer 8

Terrible thing to happen, but the parents are at fault for not teaching their son and daughter not to play with firearms. They are not a bad thing parents just need to learn to lock them up, keep ammunition away from the gun and now keep the gun loaded....

Answer 9

Terrible thing and becoming and all too familiar occurence. Isn't the brother just being questionned though? What happened to innocent until proven guilty?

Answer 10

Why oh why leave a gun in the hose with children, they don't realise just what harm they can do, i blame the parents for leaving the thing around derrrrrrrr!!!!!!