7yr-old Florida Girl Finds Loaded Gun, Shoots Mom: 'You Know, It Went Off'

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SUBURBAN BOCA RATON, Florida -- It was just last week when Sharda Brijmohan was napping in her bed. She said she never could have imagined that her first grade daughter would find a gun in a nightstand and shoot her. "She probably, I don't know, in her little mind thought it was not loaded and she took it out and you know, it went off," Brijmohan said. Two shots, one in her... [WPTV News (Florida), via gunpolicy.org ]

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[afmo]

yeah...you know..."it went off," if by "it went off" she means "we negligently left a loaded gun where a child could get it and because guns are designed to be user friendly she used it and shot my stupid ass."

if you have children DON'T KEEP YOUR GUN WHERE YOUR KIDS CAN FIND IT OR LOCK IT UP!

[Pugs]

I think that this is the most important sentence in the story:

She said she feels parents should let children know if there's a gun in the house so they can be properly educated.

There is no substitution for education. That and LOCK IT UP if the child isn't educated or too young to understand.

[eric_t12]

Originally Posted by Pugs

I think that this is the most important sentence in the story:



There is no substitution for education. That and LOCK IT UP if the child isn't educated or too young to understand.

sure there is a substitue - its called a ban.


and it works: just look at dc.

[CommieHunter]

Yeah, in DC, everyone is shot intentionally.