Selfie shooting, 10 yr old victim

[geeman237]

Words fail me.....
A 19 year old babysitter finds a gun whilst babysitting a 10 year old. Sitter poses for selfies with it and the gun goes off hitting the 10 year old child in care.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/26/us/boy-shot-babysit...

[Marlin45]

Unsecure firearm. The owner should be prosecuted as well

[bristolbaron]

My brother shot me in the head with a air pistol showing off to the babysitter! How times change!

[AJL308]

Hmmmm....baby sitter "found" a gun and randomly started taking selfies. Possibly I suppose but more likely she knew it was there or had it with her.

Interesting stat on the relative dangerousness of guns in that article though. Only one percent of firearms fatalities in the US are due to accidents. That's a pretty small number for a machine which is arguably designed to be injurous.

[98elise]

geeman237 said:

Words fail me.....
A 19 year old babysitter finds a gun whilst babysitting a 10 year old. Sitter poses for selfies with it and the gun goes off hitting the 10 year old child in care.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/26/us/boy-shot-babysit...

Surely the lesson from this is that 10 year old American kids should be armed. The more guns people have, the safer they are.