Four-year-old shot in Tuckahoe, (CLUELESS) family speaks

[308Mike]

Guns DO NOT just shoot on their own - actually, he's CLUELESS about guns (apparently so is his wife and 10-year-old):

Four-year-old shot in Tuckahoe, family speaks
Posted: Saturday, April 27, 2013 12:29 PM EST Updated: Saturday, April 27, 2013 6:36 PM EST
By Tayleigh Davis - bio | email

HENRICO, VA (WWBT) - A four-year-old boy is recovering after he was accidentally shot inside his Tuckahoe home Saturday morning. Police were called to the home on Rolando drive off Patterson Avenue around 7:00 a.m.

The child's father, Willie Alley, says he always keeps his gun locked away. Now, he has a message for all parents who own a gun and have children in their home.

"Think twice about buying guns, I have," said Alley.

Alley says he never imagined his .38 caliber gun would get anywhere close to his two sons. He says his wife was home with the kids, ages four and 10. Somehow that gun went off and his four year old was shot in the leg.

"They said it went all the way through his leg," said the boy's grandma Patricia Horton. "He has no broken bones. No arteries or anything were shattered. He's going to be fine."

Horton had no idea what to think when Alley called to tell her his son was shot. They both rushed home from work.

"The first thing I could think of was to get straight home and find out what was going on," Alley noted.

Alley doesn't understand how the gun even got near his son. He says he keeps it locked away. He and his wife only use it for protection.

"Maybe she was concerned because we had some incidents where some people have tried to break-in before here, so that's the only reason I got it in the first place," Alley added.

Alley says the mom removed the gun from its safe when someone tried breaking in several months ago. He says, as far as he knew, the boys never even knew he owned a gun.

"I didn't know what to think," said Horton. "It's unbelievable. I'm not much on guns. It didn't make sense to me. I'm trying to figure out how a four-year-old can cock a gun back and shoot himself in the left. I just don't understand what happen here last night."

[rightisright]

F*&^ing idiot. Thankfully the kid is okay.

"Think twice about buying guns, I have," said Alley.

How about educating your kids and locking the gun up, Einstein?

[randy]

...kids, ages four and 10

...the boys never even knew he owned a gun.

Denial, it's not just a river in Egypt.

I'm not much on guns

No shit, or you would have

1. Secured them properly, and, most importantly,

2. trained your kids to not play with them when the do inevitably find them unsecured or are able to defeat whatever locking mechanism you use.

As Massad Ayoob has written, you can not child proof your guns, you need to gun proof your kids.

Glad it looks like the kid's going to be OK, but I put this under Negligent Discharge, with the parents being the negligent ones.