A mother in Tennessee is claiming that her daughter fatally shot herself in the stomach with a handgun she mistakenly believed to a Wii controller. At least, that's her only explanation for what could have happened.
The gun was left lying around by the victim's stepfather, who claims he produced the .380 caliber pistol to deal with a potential prowler, then left it on a table and promptly forgot all about it. Even more astoundingly, the mother was in the same room as the three-year-old girl when she picked the gun up and managed to shoot herself with it.
This story is all kinds of f*cked up. A man leaving a gun -- safety off -- in easy reach of a three-year-old, and a mother who is in the same room as a kid playing with the deadly weapon and somehow not noticing. That's before we even get into the fanciful notion of a child, however young, somehow confusing a gun with a controller.
I literally don't know what else to say about this. Seriously ... what!?
Mother Says Girl Thought Loaded Gun Was Wii Controller [Scum Central]
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12:00 PM on 03.08.2010
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I'm getting a feeling this is an attempt to get out of negligence.
Conception should require a license.
For fucks sake, it's a god damned gun. Next I'll be hearing about how someone lost their gun until Jimmy found it under the sofa cushion. I hope one or both of these dipshit 'parents' have some kind of charges filed against them.
How in the fuck did the child get her hands on a pistol?
But if she didn't die, it's AWWWWWWRIGHT. I hear colostomy bags for life is a pretty good deal...
... I'm sure there's a certain level of understanding that anyone reading this story on the internet can't reach, but this just confounds me.
Wait... Tennessee?
i blame the hip hop gangsta rap.
"Fatal" implies death.
More importantly, why did the dipshit of a father leave a loaded gun with the safety off on a kitchen table with a child in the house!? You don't need formal training on handling guns to know that you don't leave a firearm loaded, unlocked and unattended, no matter what the circumstances. That is criminal negligence.
Human stupidity knows no bounds.
This little girl should be alive. She should be laughing and having a good time being a kid. Instead, she is dead, because of stupid FUCKING idiots who don't know how to be decent human beings.
Fuck this makes me so angry.
Oh well.
Oh.
They should just start IQ tests before you can have kids. If you pass you can go ahead. If you fail you're castrated.
Stupid parents.
Any bets on when the family sues Nintendo?
Or maybe don´t let your 3yo play with a gun ;-)
@Birthmark Destructor
I hope you realize that with every comment you make, you become more bigoted. I can guarantee that you're gonna get banned soon if you don't stop.
A two year old girl deserved to die for owning a wii?
You know there fanboyism and then there's just being a sick fuck. Get some Goddamn help .
Both parents deserve to be shot in the gut and left to die. They didn't pull the trigger, but they killed this poor girl.