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Related: About this forumDetroit boy, 3, in critical condition after accidentally shooting himself with mother's gun
Detroit boy, 3, in critical condition after accidentally shooting himself with mother's gun
Liam Rappleye
Detroit Free Press
Published | Updated
A 3-year-old boy is in critical condition Friday after accidentally shooting himself in the face with his mother's gun. Police were on the scene in the 11000 block of St. Patrick Street on Detroit's east side. Detroit Police Chief James White said, and according to the preliminary information he had, that the child sustained a graze wound and is expected to recover.
White told media at the scene that the child's mother returned home from work about 4 p.m. and set her weapon down on a dresser, where the child found it and accidentally fired it, injuring himself.
White said Detroit Police received a call about 4:20 p.m. and arrived at the scene shortly after. There were eight people in the house five children and three adults, White said.
"We're here way too many times talking about this," White said. "If you're going to have a gun, which many people do, you also have to have what's called responsibility."
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Liam Rappleye
Detroit Free Press
Published | Updated
A 3-year-old boy is in critical condition Friday after accidentally shooting himself in the face with his mother's gun. Police were on the scene in the 11000 block of St. Patrick Street on Detroit's east side. Detroit Police Chief James White said, and according to the preliminary information he had, that the child sustained a graze wound and is expected to recover.
White told media at the scene that the child's mother returned home from work about 4 p.m. and set her weapon down on a dresser, where the child found it and accidentally fired it, injuring himself.
White said Detroit Police received a call about 4:20 p.m. and arrived at the scene shortly after. There were eight people in the house five children and three adults, White said.
"We're here way too many times talking about this," White said. "If you're going to have a gun, which many people do, you also have to have what's called responsibility."
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Detroit boy, 3, in critical condition after accidentally shooting himself with mother's gun (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Sep 2024
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"mother returned home from work about 4 p.m. and set her weapon down on a dresser"
Aussie105
Sep 2024
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Irish_Dem
(60,054 posts)1. Guns are leading cause of death for American children.
All of them entirely preventable.
Americans don't care enough to do anything about it.
Aussie105
(6,523 posts)2. "mother returned home from work about 4 p.m. and set her weapon down on a dresser"
I'm sorry?
In what insane country does a mother take a gun to work?
Was she a police officer who forgot to store her weapon at work when getting changed?
Or was she just a civilian who needed a gun when going out to work just for 'protection'?
News flash!
Guns have a safety. If it is off, the gun doesn't care who is pulling the trigger, or where it is pointed.
Scrivener7
(53,342 posts)3. Charge the mother.
Old Crank
(5,028 posts)4. Yes. Every adult who allows their gun to be used
By children needs jail time and a life long gun ban.
MichMan
(13,649 posts)5. Take all their children away from them as well
twodogsbarking
(12,276 posts)6. Hope he recovers. Humans.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,815 posts)7. Another of JD Vance's FACT OF LIFE, I suppose.
F me pink. How could anyone let this happen?