On May 20, 12:46 pm, "Sid9" <sid9@
bellsouth.net> wrote:
> North Carolina 2-year-old puts dad's unattended gun in his mouth and fires
>
> By David Edwards
> Monday, May 20, 2013 9:55 EDT
>
> A 2-year-old boy in North Carolina is expected to survive after shooting
> himself with his father's gun over the weekend.
>
> Randolph County deputies said that the toddler found the handgun in his
> parents' room at their home just outside Asheboro around 2 p.m. on Saturday.
> The boy put the gun in his mouth and fired it.
>
> According to WGHP, the boy was listed in critical condition Brenner Children's
> Hospital in Winston-Salem on Sunday, but was expected to live.
>
> "The bullet missed all the vital arteries there in the neck in the head and
> also missed the spinal cords, so I said it's a miracle the child is still
> with us," Randolph County Sheriff's Office Captain Derrick Hill explained to
> WGHP.
>
> A neighbor told the station that "the good Lord was looking after him."
>
> The sheriff's and district attorney's offices were considering whether to
> charge the parents with leaving the firearm unattended
> =================================
> Where was the good lord to prevent this from happening?
>
> --
>
> "Consider a 1998 study in the "Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery"
> that found that every time a gun was used in a house in a self defense or
> legally justifiable shooting there were four unintentional shootings , seven
> criminal assaults, or homicides, and 11 attempted or completed suicides"
> from Scientific American May 2013
>
> " We've got to stop being the stupid party, "
> the Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal explained.
> "It's time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults.
>
> "Facts." John Adams argued "are stubborn things..."
And I suppose now, that facts aren't the only "stubborn things".