Three-Year-Old Kills Herself With Game Controller-Shaped Gun

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Segatron Genesis... call me the wizard.
http://kotaku.com/5488356/three+year+old-kills-herself-with-game-controller+shaped-gun

The little girl picked up the wrong Wii Zapper by accident :(
 
Great parenting! >:( God that makes me sick to my stomach how absolutely moronic people can be. The parent/s should be charged with 2nd degree murder.
 
Like the acticle stated, it's clearly the fathers fault for leaving a gun on the table. Very sad. :'(
 
Bringing the Wii into it is just so that people can make Nintendo a scapegoat instead of examining the lack of parenting on the part of the parents.
 
bad parenting.

not because of the wii-remote-mistake

but because the father left the handgun in reach of a child (Which is texas is a felony). judging by some of the content of the story, daddy probably wasnt the brightest crayon in the box either.

put the gun on a shelf. and dont use a freaking handgun to scare away dogs. shotguns do WONDERS better...

in before someone kills themself for playing with a WWII era luger pistol and blames nintindo for making the original zapper look like it.
 
Shouldn't guns be locked in gun lockers unless they are actually out for practice--a locking cabinet at least, something that is child proof?
 
Grindspine said:
Shouldn't guns be locked in gun lockers unless they are actually out for practice--a locking cabinet at least, something that is child proof?
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IMO no. a gun with a lock is a fancy looking rock.

should it be put in easy reach of a 3 year old? no.

i say starting at age 6 if firearms are in the house, parents should teach the child what they are. take them to a range with a .22 and let them shoot. teach them the basics of firearm safety and show them that IT ISNT A TOY!!

im not saying that you should have all 100 of your guns out, but a "home defense" weapon can be out. other guns should be in a safe of some kind (more for protection of the firearm rather than "8 year old sally pointed the ruger mark II at her cousin because she wouldnt give her back her barbie" or whatever 8 year olds do now.

<--- needs to take his own advice as all of his guns are not in a safe. and only one is in case :-X
 
I mean, I can see one for home defense, on a HIGH shelf in a bedroom where the child is NOT allowed.

But then again, kids get into all types of things. Guns + 3 year olds never ends well.

A slightly older child may be capable of learning what a gun is, but definitely not a three year old.
 
Grindspine said:
I mean, I can see one for home defense, on a HIGH shelf in a bedroom where the child is NOT allowed.

But then again, kids get into all types of things. Guns + 3 year olds never ends well.

A slightly older child may be capable of learning what a gun is, but definitely not a three year old.
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i completely agree. kids in the house are always a concern. i make sure to let mom know if we have small children coming to the house. and they know they arent allowed in my room

any guns within reach of kids are not loaded in my house, but ammo is close by.

the one that is loaded has the loaded mags separate from teh guns on the same shelf. kid would have to put the mag in...hit it in, rack the slide and physically grip the rear of the gun before the trigger can be depressed and the striker can strike the primer on the cartridge.

shotty is chamber open next to my bed. ammo is across the room (5 feet)
 
We don't have guns in New Zealand, were still running around in grass skirts with tomohawks.

All jokes aside it's very saddening to hear about the girl, that's not nice to hear happening, I presume it was in the states?
 
Phoenix said:
IMO no. a gun with a lock is a fancy looking rock.

should it be put in easy reach of a 3 year old? no.

i say starting at age 6 if firearms are in the house, parents should teach the child what they are. take them to a range with a .22 and let them shoot. teach them the basics of firearm safety and show them that IT ISNT A TOY!!

im not saying that you should have all 100 of your guns out, but a "home defense" weapon can be out. other guns should be in a safe of some kind (more for protection of the firearm rather than "8 year old sally pointed the ruger mark II at her cousin because she wouldnt give her back her barbie" or whatever 8 year olds do now.

<--- needs to take his own advice as all of his guns are not in a safe. and only one is in case :-X
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my Family (mostly my dad and my grandpa) taught every single child in our family how to use weapons from handguns to rifles when we were about 10 years old. Also, our home defense rifle and its magazine it is set up in a similar way than yours is... and despite all this there has never been any gun problem whatsoever in my family, we never had kids playing around with the guns or using them inappropriately. Therefore i agree with this post 100%.

in fact i think it is ironic that the main reason kids end up shooting themselves or others with guns is because parents try to hide guns from them therefore making kids either ignorant or very curious of what guns are like and causing all sorts of accidents.

from what i can remember i always knew what a gun was, i never had any curiosity of using one or never had the craving of shooting a gun for fun (even though i play lots of violent videogames :lol) and i never mistook a controller shaped gun over a real one... simply because i knew what they were, when to actually use them, and the consequences of using one
 
Exactly Zidart! Guns are not the problem; stupid, negligent parents are the problem. We have a few hunting shotguns here and my niece knows exactly where they are, and how dangerous they are. She also knows exactly how much trouble she would be if she ever even touched one without permission. But up until they are old enough to understand how dangerous they are, they need to be hidden, which is what I did. Obviously this smart guy did not, and now his kid is dead because of his extreme lapse in judgment :-\
 
http://kotaku.com/5489137/wii-gun-involved-in-3+year+old-shooting-is-amazingly-lifelike

So the Wii Zapper involved was a HONG KONG made accessory and looks creepily like a real gun.
 
MegaDrive20XX said:
http://kotaku.com/5489137/wii-gun-involved-in-3+year+old-shooting-is-amazingly-lifelike

So the Wii Zapper involved was a HONG KONG made accessory and looks creepily like a real gun.
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That makes a little more sense, but still not the matter at hand. The stepfather left a gun within the reach of a 3 year old.
Actually, the fact that the zapper looks real makes things worse, imo, because he left a dangerous item laying around that looked a lot like a harmless one that the kid was allowed to use a lot.
 
Phoenix said:
any guns within reach of kids are not loaded in my house, but ammo is close by.

the one that is loaded has the loaded mags separate from teh guns on the same shelf. kid would have to put the mag in...hit it in, rack the slide and physically grip the rear of the gun before the trigger can be depressed and the striker can strike the primer on the cartridge.

shotty is chamber open next to my bed. ammo is across the room (5 feet)
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Heh, novel concept to the parents in the article. Oh yeah, guns need AMMO to be dangerous... (Ignoring anything about pistol-whipping considering that we're talking about a three-year-old here)
 
So what do you guys think? If this is the fault of a foreign company or is this the fault of a man who bought this item from online gaming store or perhaps it was ebay?
 
Can't blame anybody or anything except the idiot father for leaving a loaded gun in the reach of a child.
 
as a gun owner, i wouldnt mistake the wii remote for a gun. as a kid, i probably would have and vice-versa.

problem is daddy was trying real hard for the darwin award....sadly his daughter had to suffer the consequences.
 
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