A 3-year-old boy had been playing with a handgun he found in his home before fatally shooting himself in the chest with it, police said Friday.
In audio tape of a 911 call released by Hamilton police, a woman identifying herself as the mother of Marques Green said she carried the gun in her purse and had set her purse down after getting home.
"My son just shot himself, and I'm not getting a pulse," Elizabeth Green screamed Thursday afternoon. "Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I'm not getting a pulse ... I don't think he's alive!"
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The woman told a 911 dispatcher the boy had shot himself "in the heart." The dispatcher gave her first aid instructions.
"His eyes are open, but he's out," Green said.
Police said the boy was struck in the chest and pronounced dead at a hospital shortly afterward.
"Oh my God! Marques, honey!" the woman shouted in the call.
TV footage showed a detective carrying a handgun out of the residence Thursday.
No doubt this is a gun that this woman purchased to keep herself and her child safe.
But guns are not designed to keep people safe, they are designed to kill.
And they do that with brutal efficiency.
"Guns don't kill people..."
ReplyDeleteWait a second, yes they do: guns kill people.
People you hate
People you fear
...sometimes, much too often, actually,
guns kill people you love.
"But guns are not designed to keep people safe, they are designed to kill."
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Exactly!
And 6:32am you are spot on too.
I bet if anyone had talked with "conservative mommy" (just a guess) the day before she would of bragged about how she carries a gun and how its her right blah, blah, blah the same old conservative bullshit that palin spews.
I wonder what she says today as the goes to the funeral home, to make arrangements....
And what will she put on the gravestone?
"Killed by mommy's second amendment rights"
I really think these parents should be locked up. But the CPS/cops say "they have suffered enough"
oh right these are WHITE families.
Poor kid.
RIP
Guns kill people just as much as ropes that are used for hangings, towels that are used for chokings, and keys that are used for stabbings. However, nobody needs a license to buy a rope/towel/key. Right?
DeleteThe fact that a rope/towel/key can't decide on its own to be a deadly threat applies to guns, as well. The careless use of it by the owner is the actual "weapon." Anything at all can be used to kill, as long as the person follows through with creating a more than likely chance of that item being used to kill someone. I know of someone who collects fancy models of guns, but never buys ammo. He displays the guns in a large bullet-proof glass case on a wall at his home. He is beyond cautious!
She must have been carrying it with one in the chamber. I can't imagine a 3 year old chambering a bullet. I suppose it's possible, but not likely.
ReplyDeleteWell, you know, LIBERTY and all that bullshit.
ReplyDeleteA three year old with a gun is not an accident, it is criminal neglect.
ReplyDeleteOwning a gun to keep yourself safe is like standing under a tree to protect yourself from lightning.
ReplyDeleteWait for it.... His mother had an earlier abortion, that's why the child died
ReplyDeleteWhy hasn't Obama weighed in on the Rachel Dolezal story?
ReplyDeleteMaybe he's embarrassed because he's a half black President posing as an all black President.
ok, fess up.. Are you Sarah Palin or Nancy French? Both are useless at writing as you are!
DeleteHe has more important things to do. Like protecting the rights of sphinctors like you, sadly.
DeleteHe's not posing. He salutes his white mother and grandparents. He calls himself a "mutt." LOL
DeleteBut he looks black, so people assume he's 100% black, and he's married a black woman.
@7:37 such stupidity begs the question how you even managed to find the internet
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DeleteWhy is ANYONE?
Who cares? Now, about a Fake pregnancy faking a pregnancy at 44 and getting a Rent a DS kid for campaign? That is something else now isn't it? Not a woman who is married to a AA, and fights for the rights of AA, to bad she isn't AA who cares?
Oh, looky here, the voice of reason! First of all, wrong thread. Second, ask mommy if she emptied her gun and put it in a safe or at least put a trigger lck on.
DeleteNone of your business who's black, who's white. We all bleed red. Now finish your snack, and take your mat and blanket it's nap time.
A man at the legendary Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City fired five rounds at a wedding reception. He said it was an accident.
ReplyDeleteonly one gunshot. 5 people hurt, some by broken glass
DeleteInfuriating. We believe enough in big government to design Tylenol bottles so children can't get into them. But don't you dare do anything with a gun that could keep my child from shooting himself
ReplyDeleteEvery time a conservative whines "The founding fathers never dreamed of gay marriage when they wrote the constitution" I want to scream "Did the founding fathers dream of three year olds shooting their parents, their friends or themselves when the wrote the second amendment??!"
@ 8.03: Last paragraph: Full marks. A+ and any other top awards I can think of.
DeleteHeartbreaking breathtaking carelessness
ReplyDeleteGryphen, thank you for continuing to post these tragic stories. It seems the media doesn't want to be reminded.
ReplyDeleteSo sad. I wonder if these parents ever change their minds about gun ownership.....
R in NC
And Gryphen thanks for using that stunning pic...every damn time. Really drives the point home. Hopefully this will be the last time....you need to use it....
Deleteoh who am I kidding?
http://momsdemandaction.org/ These Shootings are #NotAnAccident
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Moms demand action for Gun Sense in America
Thanks, if it educates and saves one life, it's worth the effort.
Delete"It wasn’t always that way. California passed its first ban on open carry in the 1960s in response to the Black Panther Party. “The Legislature was debating an open-carry law when 30 Black Panthers showed up at the Statehouse with their guns,” said Adam Winkler, a professor of law at U.C.L.A. and the author of “Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America.”
ReplyDelete“The same day Gov. Ronald Reagan made a speech, saying there’s no reason why a law-abiding person should be carrying a gun on the street.”
Maybe the way to turn this debate around would bring new recruits into the gun rights movement. “If open-carry advocates today were Marxist-leaning black radicals,” said Winkler, “we might have a very different situation.”"
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/opinion/gail-collins-guns-in-your-face.html
"Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I'm not getting a pulse ... I don't think he's alive!" Should be "oh my god oh my god I don't think I got a trigger lock.gun safe"
ReplyDeleteSorry to sound so cold and unfeeling, but aren't these words crocodile tears after the fact? She just lost a child because of her own negligence and stupidity.
We need a new word, this isn't an accident in any definition of the word. Guns Kill Guns Kill Guns Kill Guns Kill ad nauseum. Treat them as weapons and keep them away from kids, especially loaded.
I "safeguarded" my house the second my kids began to stand. Got bumpers for sharp edges, cabinet locks, doorknob covers that needed adult strength to open, I got down on the ground and looked around at their level and made SURE I did everything I could to keep them safe. It's not rocket science, it's common sense. Did she remember to put her water bottle back in the freezer? Did she remember her cell phone? Did she remember to cut the ignition and lock the car? She'll get a "slap on the wrist" and maybe a fine, the judge will take pity on her because it was an "accident" and she's suffered enough etc etc etc.