Last weekend in Florida, an eight-year-old boy was playing with his father’s rifle when he fatally shot a baby and injured the infant’s younger sibling, according to police.

According to Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons, the father, 45-year-old Roderick Randall, was detained and charged with concealing evidence, unlawful possession of a firearm, and culpable negligence.

The tragic event, which is all too often in a nation where guns are everywhere, happened in a motel where Randall met his fiancée. Randall had a criminal record that prohibited him from carrying a pistol.

His girlfriend had brought her two-year-old twins and her one-year-old daughter, while he had brought his kid.

At one point, Randall went out and left his weapon “in the closet,” said the sheriff during a press conference. Knowing where it was hidden, his eight-year-old boy took it out and started playing with it while the girls’ mother was asleep.

“He pulls the gun from the holster, starts playing with it and fires a round into the one-year-old toddler, ultimately killing the one-year-old. The bullet then goes through and strikes one of the two-year-old toddlers who’s injured but is expected to recover.”

Before the cops came, the father exited the room with the gun and an unknown material that was probably narcotics.

The infant girl’s death is the most recent in a horrifying string of incidents.

“Every year, hundreds of children in the United States gain access to unsecured, loaded guns in closets and nightstand drawers, in backpacks and purses, or just left out,” according to a recent report by Everytown For Gun Safety.

“With tragic regularity, children find these unsecured guns and unintentionally shoot themself or someone else.”

The group, which supports tighter gun control laws, calculates that these “unintentional shootings” by children result in an average of 350 fatalities annually.

More generally, according to the website Gun Violence Archive, weapons are responsible for about 40,000 deaths annually in the United States, including suicides.


https://www.ngtimes.net/2022/06/eight-year-old-boy-kills-baby-girl-with-fathers-rifle-in-us.html

Risky

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His practising it

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He is practising it

This is America!

I almost made that mistake when I was 4.. dad left his pistol on his shelf, 4 year old me took it straight to my uncle's room and was like "uncle hands up" if you remember sledge hammer on tv in the early 90s. Oga peed right infront of me. Then I heard popsy shout from outside.. where is my gun. Oboy, that shout still echos in my head till date. I for don murder my uncle. Well the man doesn't like me till date shaa and I still don't care.