3-year-old S.C. boy killed after mistaking pink handgun for toy

• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2013-02-06 11:53
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  A 3-year-old boy in Greenville, South Carolina was shot in the head and killed on Friday after he started playing with a pink handgun because he thought it was a toy.
  
  Police responding to the shooting at Haywood Plantation Apartments said that Tmorej Smith was found with a gunshot wound to the head, according to The Associated Press.
  
  Investigators determined that Tmorej and his 7-year-old sister had been playing with a pink handgun when the incident occurred.
  
  Deputy Coroner Jeff Fowler ruled the shooting an accidental homicide.
  
  Fowler said that the shooting happened in a bedroom, while the boy’s grandparents were in the living room. The parents were not at home at the time.
  
  “If you have guns, if you own guns mostly we would prefer you have them in a lock box,” Greenville Police Media Relations Officer Jonathan Bragg told WYFF. “At least have them out of the reach of children.”
  
  Police had not yet revealed who fired the weapon.
  
  Pink handguns and Hello Kitty assault rifles have been part of an effort to get firearms in the hands of women and younger groups in recent years. In 2011, Arizona state Sen. Lori Klein (R) was criticized after she pointed her loaded raspberry-pink handgun at a reporter.
  
  “Oh, it’s so cute,” Klein told the reporter as she aimed the gun’s laser pointer at the reporter’s chest, adding that the firearm’s lack of a trigger safety should not be a reason to worry.
  
  “I just didn’t have my hand on the trigger,” she said.
  
  

  
  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/05/3-year-old-s-c-boy-killed-after-mistaking-pink-handgun-for-toy/
  TL;DR
  Americans are too retarded to own guns
  can't figure out that children would mistake a pink handgun for a toy.
• Osayidan wrote on 2013-02-06 12:59
  This is sad and all but I can't help but feel like the media is now going out of their way to report every single gun incident ever since that Sandy Hook school thing.
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2013-02-06 13:23
  Yeah, there's a lot of these stories
  The cat only posted this because of the absurdity while the other stories are very generic
  The cat only reads the general media to see what general opinions are since commercial journalism is very easy to write and make money off readers
  
  as for actual keeping up on politics, the cat reads The Economist
  However, their articles are really long and you need a couple hours to go through each month reading them.
• Okami wrote on 2013-02-06 13:28

  Quote from Osayidan;1026977:

  This is sad and all but I can't help but feel like the media is now going out of their way to report every single gun incident ever since that Sandy Hook school thing.

  
  
  They really are.
• Drizzit wrote on 2013-02-06 17:07

  Quote from Osayidan;1026977:

  This is sad and all but I can't help but feel like the media is now going out of their way to report every single gun incident ever since that Sandy Hook school thing.

  
  
  It's part of a vast conspiracy to push for more gun control. On the other hand, parents who are too stupid to keep guns locked up and out of reach of children probably shouldn't own them.
• Cynic wrote on 2013-02-06 20:57
  "probably". Uh, no, people who don't know how to take proper care of a gun should not be anywhere near one, period.
  
  It's your own fault if people get hurt because you're too stupid to watch where you keep your gun. They really need to penalize that kind of negligence.
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2013-02-06 21:00
  there is a punishment for this
  the usual sentence is involuntary manslaughter.
• Cynic wrote on 2013-02-06 21:04
  Well, it doesn't seem like they're going to apply it to this case, which is bull. They should also revoke the gun owner's license.. assuming they even had one in the first place.
• Ashikoki wrote on 2013-02-06 21:06
  Why is the gun pink.
  
  Why.
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2013-02-06 22:00

  Quote from BobYoMeowMeow;1027263:

  there is a punishment for this
  the usual sentence is involuntary manslaughter.

  
  
  At the very least they should get charged with Negligence because that's pretty much what this is. You don't leave a loaded gun laying around your house for children to get at. It's common sense people :sigh:
• Chiyuri wrote on 2013-02-07 01:46

  Quote from BobYoMeowMeow;1026958:

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  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/05/3-year-old-s-c-boy-killed-after-mistaking-pink-handgun-for-toy/
  TL;DR
  Americans are too retarded to own guns
  can't figure out that children would mistake a pink handgun for a toy.

  
  
  I'm pretty sure even if it wasn't pink.. the kid might have played with it -.-
• Ashikoki wrote on 2013-02-07 01:50

  Quote from Chiyuri;1027453:

  I'm pretty sure even if it wasn't pink.. the kid might have played with it -.-

  
  
  Children often associate bright and vibrant colors with toys or things made for children. In their eyes, dark or bland colored objects are what adults use. Everything they get have colors.
  
  Sure the child might have still played with it, but the pink catches both the eye and attention.
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2013-02-07 05:07

  Pink handguns and Hello Kitty assault rifles have been part of an effort to get firearms in the hands of women

  
  That's so hilariously sexist and terrible. Dude, I would kill for a Hello Kitty assault rifle! Is there really anything better? Would you have it any other way?
  
  Oh, right, the topic at hand. In my opinion, it's not really their problem at all. The parents are completely at fault.
• Hanna wrote on 2013-02-07 06:39
  They should be in prison