4-Year-Old Accidentially Shoots 2-Year-Old Sister in Las Vegas

by Amy Judd | July 24, 2009 at 05:55 pm
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A four-year-old boy shoots his baby sister with a 9mm handgun earlier today in Las Vegas, and now the two-year-old is in critical condition in hospital. Police said the young boy found the handgun inside the home and it went off when he was holding it, hitting his sister in the torso.

According to police, the father was home at the time and the gun appears to have been improperly secured.

An investigation is underway.

This comes less than a week after another Las Vegas boy, this time five-years-old, shot himself in the head after finding his father's handgun in the car. That father has been charged with child endangerment.

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Rory Cripps

Guns don't fire by themselves--guns are inanimate objects! I can't tell you how many loaded guns I've seen thrown on the ground and against walls. None of them fired!  Nowadays, at least 50% of American adults are on some form of prescription drugs. Their kids are on prescription drugs too! And my best guesstimate is that 30% of the American population is on a combination of prescription and illegal drugs. "Healthy" Americans simply smoke weed or drink alcoholic beverages . . how's that for "healthy? So where does America go from there and what are its choices? Most of the American populace, nowadays,  are completely and totally insane and the only thing that keeps them in check, and from killing each other, is that they still have some money left in their pockets and, as a result, they can continue to put food on their table and buy things that they don't need simply because their neighbors are buying those things. The fact that American kids are  killing American kids doesn't  surprise me in the least. Today, America is at a literal live or die crossroads-- and, in my opinion,  only about 5% of the American population has its head screwed on straight.

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Artiste

Why does not the police charge with murder these so-called fathers?

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Mack McMillan | Henderson Homes

I second artiste. If at all a case has to be charged then it should accuse the parents for keeping such deadly weapons especially at the vicinity of the kids.Regards,Mack

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Homes In Cardiff by the Sea

It is so important to properly secure guns in the home.  This is definitely not something for gun control advocates to latch onto.  It is extremely negligent firearms management which ended up in tragedy.

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