4-year-old grabs loaded gun at family BBQ and accidentally kills wife of Tenn. Deputy

[Synthaholic]

4-year-old grabs loaded gun at family BBQ and accidentally kills wife of Tennessee sheriff’s deputy



NASHVILLE — Authorities say a 4-year-old boy grabbed a loaded gun at a family cookout and accidentally shot and killed the wife of a Tennessee sheriff’s deputy.


Investigators say Wilson County Deputy Daniel Fanning on Saturday was showing his weapons to a relative in a bedroom of his Lebanon home when the toddler came in and picked up a gun off the bed. Sheriff Robert Bryan says the weapon discharged, hitting 48-year-old Josephine Fanning.


She was pronounced dead at the scene. The child is not related to her or her husband.


Bryan says the shooting was a terrible accident and that within seconds of Fanning placing the gun on the bed, the toddler picked it up.


The gun was not Fanning’s service weapon and the sheriff says the deputy’s weapons are normally stored in a safe.

 

[Synthaholic]

Yay guns!!!!!!

 

[Vandalshandle]

The four year old was only exercising his constituitional rights. I suppose that liberals will now confiscating firearms from the hands of 4 year old's everywhere...

 

[ABikerSailor]

WTF is a 4 year old doing in a place where they have such easy access to LOADED WEAPONS?

 

[hoosier88]

Condolences to the widow, & to the family of the child.

Could we take a moment to see this poor woman buried before we return to the usual brickbats?

 

[nitroz]

'NESSE!

*BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG*
LIBS AINT WELCuME HERE!

 

[ABikerSailor]

Condolences to the widow, & to the family of the child.

Could we take a moment to see this poor woman buried before we return to the usual brickbats?

Shit.................even before the bodies of the kids killed in Sandy Hook were cold, there was a whole bunch of right wing moonbats talking about how it was actually a hoax, because grieving parents couldn't look like that on television.

Matter of fact, one of those threads is here on USMB..............."Sandy Hook a hoax?"

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Accidents happen ALL the time. How many killed in car accidents a year again? By drowning? Or falling? Less then 1000 a year are killed by accidental gun discharges. Usually much less.

If you are appalled by less then a 1000 killed you must be furious with cars they kill around 40000 a year.

Drowning mortality in the United States, ... [J Community Health. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI

Drowning is the 5th leading cause of accidental deaths in the Country. I don't see any threads on here demanding pools be shut down or lakes blocked off.

FASTSTATS - Accidents or Unintentional Injuries

26000 falling deaths a year.

33000 accidental poisonings.

I guess we need more laws on how where and who can have poisonous chemicals?

Less than a 1000 due to accidental firearms discharges.

 

[Yurt]

dupe thread just a few threads below this moron

http://www.usmessageboard.com/curre...oy-accidentally-kills-tenn-deputy-s-wife.html

 

[Yurt]

Yay guns!!!!!!

i knew a shithead lefty would use this to further their political agenda

 

[Politico]

You hate guns we get it.

 

[OohPooPahDoo]

4-year-old grabs loaded gun at family BBQ and accidentally kills wife of Tennessee sheriff’s deputy



NASHVILLE — Authorities say a 4-year-old boy grabbed a loaded gun at a family cookout and accidentally shot and killed the wife of a Tennessee sheriff’s deputy.


Investigators say Wilson County Deputy Daniel Fanning on Saturday was showing his weapons to a relative in a bedroom of his Lebanon home when the toddler came in and picked up a gun off the bed. Sheriff Robert Bryan says the weapon discharged, hitting 48-year-old Josephine Fanning.


She was pronounced dead at the scene. The child is not related to her or her husband.


Bryan says the shooting was a terrible accident and that within seconds of Fanning placing the gun on the bed, the toddler picked it up.


The gun was not Fanning’s service weapon and the sheriff says the deputy’s weapons are normally stored in a safe.

If only the deputy's wife had an AR-15 she could have killed the 4 year old and saved her life.


Another example of senseless death caused by not enough guns.

 

[Godboy]

Condolences to the widow, & to the family of the child.

Could we take a moment to see this poor woman buried before we return to the usual brickbats?

Shit.................even before the bodies of the kids killed in Sandy Hook were cold, there was a whole bunch of right wing moonbats talking about how it was actually a hoax, because grieving parents couldn't look like that on television.

Matter of fact, one of those threads is here on USMB..............."Sandy Hook a hoax?"

Go find me a right winger in that thread and maybe youll have a point. Betcha cant find one though. Conspiracy theorists arent left or right you fucking moron. They support libertarian politicians 99% of the time.

 

[SanTropez]

WTF is a 4 year old doing in a place where they have such easy access to LOADED WEAPONS?

Exactly! Little kids move fast, and no moron should be laying down a loaded firearm where a 4-year-old can reach it. Toys, candy and exploring - that's the life of a toddler.

 

[eots]

in a world without guns we would all be safe and accidents would never happen we would all live in harmony ..we would end world hunger and develop meaningful communication with all living things both here on earth and beyond ...but nooooo you gun nuts wanna ruin it all

 

[Noomi]

Who is the pathetic loser who put a LOADED gun where a little boy could pick it up? What happened to parental responsibility?

Charge the parents with manslaughter - this wasn't an accident, it could have been prevented had these retards kept the gun away from their son! They are responsible for the death of this woman!

 

[skookerasbil]

Accidents happen ALL the time. How many killed in car accidents a year again? By drowning? Or falling? Less then 1000 a year are killed by accidental gun discharges. Usually much less.

If you are appalled by less then a 1000 killed you must be furious with cars they kill around 40000 a year.

Drowning mortality in the United States, ... [J Community Health. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI

Drowning is the 5th leading cause of accidental deaths in the Country. I don't see any threads on here demanding pools be shut down or lakes blocked off.

FASTSTATS - Accidents or Unintentional Injuries

26000 falling deaths a year.

33000 accidental poisonings.

I guess we need more laws on how where and who can have poisonous chemicals?

Less than a 1000 due to accidental firearms discharges.

Thankyou sir.........the k00ks never can connect the dots. They yawn at the poisoning stat......but guns have that tragic element that they always gravitate to. Its fucking fascinating. These people actually sit home and dream of a world without firearms. You cant even make this shit up.

Far left assholes never place any responsibility on the parent in these cases.......its like the gun walked out of the closet and said to the kid, "Hey....go blast your parents s0n!!!!"


Fortunately, these people are fringe in our society as we will see when the gun control legislation hits the floor of the Senate this week. Most people are able to connect the dots.

 

[Sallow]

Just another example of how people kill people.

4 years old? Is there no end to how young criminals start?

The chair, I tells ya..the chair.

 

[skookerasbil]

 

[editec]

The more I read this brief explanation for what happened, the less I believe it.

Perhaps a more complete narrative will make sense, but this one clearly does not.