Police: Boy shoots girl at day care center

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The adults responsible for the boy should be charged. This just serves as new fodder for the anti's.
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Police: Boy shoots girl at day care center

Tuesday, January 24, 2006; Posted: 9:44 a.m. EST (14:44 GMT)

GERMANTOWN, Maryland (AP) -- A gun brought to a day care center by an 8-year-old boy accidentally went off Tuesday, wounding a 7-year-old girl in the arm, police said.

The boy had the gun in the backpack and was playing with it when it accidentally went off at the For Kids We Care center, Montgomery County police spokesman Derek Baliles said.

The girl was taken to Children's Hospital in Washington, he said. Her injury was not considered life-threatening.

There were six children in the center at the time of the shooting, which happened around 7 a.m. No one else was hurt.

Police said they do not know where the child got the gun. Names of the children, both from Germantown, a suburb of Washington, were not released.

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
 
Moonclips said:
The adults responsible for the boy should be charged.

"Police said they do not know where the child got the gun."
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Let's withhold judgment until all the facts are in... perhaps the child acquired the gun from outside the home...
 
Camp David said:
Let's withhold judgment until all the facts are in... perhaps the child acquired the gun from outside the home...
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Yep - probably picked it up at a gun show. Another instance of that "gun show loophole" at work.
 
The odds are the gun was kept in the family home loaded and unsecured. Really can't do that with kids in the house.

There was a TV show a couple years ago where kids were put into a playroom where a disabled revolver was stashed. Some parents thought they wouldn't find the gun and I think all swore their kid wouldn't play with it. As I recall the gun was found everytime and every kid who touched it pulled the trigger.

Can't leave guns laying around with kids in the hosue. An 8 year old should know better, but they usually don't.
 
Report I heard was that the boy may have been handling the gun inside his backpack when it fired -- hence the news reports stating that he 'accidentally' shot the girl since he wasn't intentionally pointing it at the girl. The whole incident is inexcusable and will sadly provide more fodder for Maryland anti's ...but I do have to wonder: why is an 8 year old boy at a daycare center, and not elementary school:confused:

edited to add: 4x4 beat me to the punch with the "daycare" question.
 
We need a new law that prohibits 8 year olds from carrying a gun

MDs loose gun laws allowed this. The gun shop that sold him the gun should be sued! He probably drove to So. Carolina and bought it there since they have looser gun laws. To prevent further occurences we need to raise the allowable gun buying age to 35. :neener:
 
TallPine said:
You mean the boy accidently pulled the trigger while he was accidently pointing it at her ...? :rolleyes:
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I think that's what he means.
But God forbid a journalist tell anything right.
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Lots of 8 year olds go to "day care" before and after school. Dropped off at 6:00 am; ride bus to school at 8:00; bus from school to day care at 3:00 pm; picked up by "parent" at 6:00 pm. Sad but true. :(
 
Thats why in a society such as ours, firearms safety should be taught just like they taught us to stop drop and roll and how to call 911 in kindergarten.
 
Henry Bowman said:
Lots of 8 year olds go to "day care" before and after school. Dropped off at 6:00 am; ride bus to school at 8:00; bus from school to day care at 3:00 pm; picked up by "parent" at 6:00 pm. Sad but true. :(
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Yea, I was going to edit to say he could be in school til mom or dad got off work, but I was having trouble with the forums.

Thats why in a society such as ours, firearms safety should be taught just like they taught us to stop drop and roll and how to call 911 in kindergarten.
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Agreed!
If I ever have kids, I'm going to be doing all I can to teach them these things as early as I can.
 
rick_reno said:
Yep - probably picked it up at a gun show. Another instance of that "gun show loophole" at work.
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rick: Excellent satire but you missed my point... let's not jump to conclusions even the police haven't made yet!
 
secamp32 said:
He probably drove to So. Carolina and bought it there since they have looser gun laws.
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Leave South Carolina out of this! Just because we can use a forklift or farm-tractor license as a form of ID and can trade two chickens and a hog for a well used Glock doesn't mean you have to be picking on us. :neener:
 
GERMANTOWN, Maryland (AP) -- A gun brought to a day care center by an 8-year-old boy accidentally went off Tuesday, wounding a 7-year-old girl in the arm, police said.

The boy had the gun in the backpack and was playing with it when it accidentally went off at the For Kids We Care center, Montgomery County police spokesman Derek Baliles said.

Yea, the GUN accidently went off. It had NOTHING to do with the trigger being pulled...
 
k_dawg said:
Yea, the GUN accidently went off. It had NOTHING to do with the trigger being pulled...
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In Montgomery County, MD there are no gun accidents, only guns that shoot themsleves at kids. Further this is not an example of a gun show loop hole, but an example of how a misogynistic firearm tricked a poor little boy into bringing it to daycare, so that the firearm could discrimnate against females.
 
In one of John Lott's books, he analyzed gun lock laws and incidents of childrens' accidents, and found that there was no correlation. Whatever the law says, responsible parents will keep their guns away from kids who don't know how to handle them, and irresponsible parents won't.

And according to the NRA, their Eddie the Eagle program actually does work in these situations based on tests they've done. Predictably, the gun grabbers don't want this program in schools.
 
im sure if maryland had a gun registration law this would have never happend or a GPS unit on the gun.
 
Update: The Father of the boy has been arrested.

http://www.wral.com/news/6396593/detail.html

Dad Arrested After Boy Brings Gun To Day Care, Shoots Girl

POSTED: 9:23 am EST January 24, 2006
UPDATED: 4:57 pm EST January 24, 2006

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The father of the boy who allegedly shot a girl at a Maryland day-care center is under arrest.

John Lynwood Hall is charged with leaving a firearm in a location accessible by an unsupervised minor, as well as contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

According to police, the 8-year-old boy who brought the gun to day care is in their custody. He will undergo an evaluation and juvenile authorities will decide what to do with him.

Police said the father had the gun for several years and the boy retrieved it from an unsecured container in a closet of their Germantown, Md., home.

Police said the boy was playing with the gun in the backpack when it accidentally went off, wounding a 7-year-old girl at the For Kids We Care day-care center in Germantown.

Police said the boy did not take the gun out of the backpack.

The girl was struck in the arm. She was taken to Children's Hospital in Washington. Her injury is not considered life-threatening.

There were six children in the center at the time of the shooting, which occurred just about before 7 a.m. Tuesday. No one else was hurt.

Police have not released the child's condition and the said the shooting remains under investigation.
 
Further update from cnn.com:

Police charged the boy's father, John L. Hall, 56, with leaving a firearm in a location accessible by an unsupervised minor, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and possession of a firearm by a felon.

Okay, so the weapon the kid brought to the daycare center was (allegedly*) improperly stored by a felon -- a man who was prohibited from possessing it in the first place! :banghead: Anyone think the anti's will allow that existing laws (Maryland has a gun storage law) should have prevented this...and that stricter laws only inconvenience those who abide by the law in the first place....

edited: *all subjects are innocent until proven guilty, in a court of law -- hey, I heard it on 'Cops', it must be true :p
 
It's interesting the built-in bias of these stories that only a gunny would notice. When it first came out on CNN the story was something like 'Gun in backpack shoots girl'... seriously... I mean what does that even mean? Then you read the story and you find out it wasn't even the boy's fault because after all it was the GUN that went off...

Sorry for my soap box rant, just particularly annoying. Maybe I notice it because I've read Lott's book. Anyways, looks like the father is getting charged as he should.
 
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