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Mom faces charges after toddler accidentally fires gun in Walmart, police say

abcnews.go.com Mom faces charges after toddler accidentally fires gun in Walmart, police say

Police say a mother is facing a child endangerment charge after her toddler found a gun in her purse and accidentally fired it in a southern Ohio Walmart store last week

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This could have been prevented if there was a good toddler with a gun.
- The toddlers need gun training. If every toddler had a gun, stuff like this wouldn't happen.
  
  The solution is obviously to try toddlers as adults.
  
  Another opportunity to talk to your toddler about good trigger discipline.
  
  "Aim at the head, shoulders, not the toes, not the toes."
  
  That's why my new bill would mandate that all babies receive in-womb gun-safety training. New borns are expected to complete a gun-safety test. If they fail, they're shot and killed. We only care about life until birth.
- Or if we just had mental health programs for toddlers, we wouldn't have any issues with giving toddlers guns!
Another responsible gun owner!
- Sad thing is is that there are probably many responsible gun owners, but its the jackasses that get publicized and drawn into the public eye.
  
  Though, that's how it should be. It just takes one reckless owner to ruin several people's lives. That's an incredibly low margin of error, and people should talk about it.
  
  Current estimates say there are 475 million guns in the US and around 330 million people. About 1.5 guns per person on average.
  
  You just never hear about the responsible gun owners. ;)
  
  I think there's a big problem with responsible gun owners defending irresponsible gun owners. Like, there's a knee-jerk reaction when someone says guns are dangerous, even though you're supposed to always act as though they are dangerous.
...well regulated...
- Since when did USA become so anti freedom?
  The toddler is clearly part of a militia, to prevent government oppression.
  So he has every right to carry and fire whatever weapon in whichever place and direction he chooses.
- Meant something different back then.
  
  Evidently. If this is what people call "well-regulated" these days....
  
  I think the biggest difference between then and now in that regard isn't the meaning of "well regulated". It's "being necessary to the security of a free State". The expectation at the time was that we wouldn't have a standing professional army to defend the nation in times of war, and we'd have to conscript militias. This was the norm at the time, and the US being a new, and therefore poor, nation, that is what the plan was. However, that isn't the case anymore. The whole second amendment hinges on militias being necessary, and since it isn't its moot.
  
  I'm fine with "gun rights" and ownership of firearms, with reasonable expectations. I think they're fun to use, and they have a purpose. A certain level of training and competency should be required though (training paid by taxes so poor people can also own them), and should include proper storage lessons.
Needs to be changed to negligent discharge.

There are no accidents, just negligence.

Unless there is hardware failure, but that's a different story
- Sorry... you think letting a toddler get ahold of your loaded gun isn't child endangerment?
- well it is a Taurus
that the 2-year-old boy took her Taurus 9mm firearm from her purse

Right, so the safety was off then, because there's no way that a two-year-old could release the safety on their own. The movies make it look like you just flick it with your finger but seriously that thing does not move without a reasonable around a force.
- A Taurus 9mm likely has a trigger pull between 5 and 9 pounds and kiddo did that...
  
  https://www.guns.com/news/reviews/taurus-g2c-best-seller
  
  Of course mom could have modified it to reduce the trigger pull too...
  
  As a victim of a toddler pinch I have no doubt they can pull a trigger.
- Many modern pistols don’t have safeties. Either way it shouldn’t have been loose in the purse and not in a holster.
  
  Not a super knowledgeable gun guy, but I think a fairly common example is for the "safety" to be part of the trigger. Safety's traditionally weren't meant to prevent someone from shooting the gun, they were there to prevent the gun from going off if you dropped it.
- You can put a lot more force on any part of a gun if you're not concerned about proper grip and aiming and just use your whole hand.
ohio, the florida of the northeast.
- As an Ohioan, I've been calling it "Cold Florida" for years.
- GUNS N AMMO FUCK YEA. MURICA #1
Of course it was in Waverly. That Walmart is always full of insane people who shouldn't have weapons, but you know they do. Used to pass through on my way to my hometown and refused to stop there after a few incidents with good old boys because I'm a gay dude who had very long hair back then.
- I'm not sure any of those things are unique to that particular Walmart.
  
  I live on the other side of the country and this has been my experience with every Walmart I've ever visited.
  
  I've never experienced issues in any other Walmart personally.
- I understand, but you've described greater than half of all Walmarts.
  
  I've never personally had issues in any other Walmart.
This sounds about right for a Taurus owner.
- Not a gun person. Is that the Karen gun or something?
  
  Taurus, and this model in particular, is known as a cheap piece of shit probably purchased and carried by someone lacking intellect and sophistication... You know, the type who would have the thing sloshing around unattended in a purse, with no holster.
That boar population is outta control, huh?
It's a good thing that Toddler had a gun! Imagine if a gunman had decided to shoot up that Wal Mart! The Toddler could Protect itself!
"Accidentally."
Kimderguadians!
- almost, dude
She gave him the wrong pacifier
How does that shit even happen?

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