2-year old boy accidentally shot his mother inside a Idaho Walmart

[Bloodyvalley]

A woman was shopping with several children in a Walmart this morning when a 2-year old boy grabbed a handgun in her purse and discharged it. The 29-year-old woman died at the scene. The woman did have a concealed weapons permit and video surveillance footage and eyewitness accounts helped authorities determine that the shooting was indeed accidental.

 

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Monica Friedman said: Clearly the problem here is that there are not enough guns in America. The victim should have been carrying at least 2 guns. Then she could have shot the toddler first.

 

I fail to understand, though, why there wasn't some sort of safety lock on the gun.

[terrytek]

A woman was shopping with several children in a Walmart this morning when a 2-year old boy grabbed a handgun in her purse and discharged it. The 29-year-old woman died at the scene. The woman did have a concealed weapons permit and video surveillance footage and eyewitness accounts helped authorities determine that the shooting was indeed accidental.

 

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I fail to understand, though, why there wasn't some sort of safety lock on the gun.

Why would she even have her gun in her purse? in a walmart??

[Gofspar]

No safety or holster what a fucking idiot.

[Bloodyvalley]

No safety, holster or permit, what a fucking idiot.

she did have a permit

[C0LL0SS0S]

Murica!

[MourningSouls]

Many modern guns don't have manual safeties. Self defense guns are intended to be drawn and fired quickly, under pressure it can be quite hard to deactivate a manual safety.

 

Very unfortunate.

[Senzelian]

Her kid probably played Hatred. There can't be any other explanation for this.

[minibois]

This post is so 'Murican, I shed a greasy tear.

[Trik'Stari]

Why would she even have her gun in her purse? in a walmart??

Concealed carry. I openly carry mine, in a locking holster, in walmart. Perfectly legal.

 

This is what happens when people don't think, you don't leave your gun in a purse, with the purse open, loaded, and the safety off. You keep it in a holster, or a concealed pocket with a zipper on it. Either way, keep your safety on and the chamber empty (if it's a revolver, you load 5/6 chambers and have the next one advanced by the trigger pull empty). This kind of stuff is common sense to anyone who pays attention in a gun safety class.

 

You want an analogy? You don't leave a chainsaw running at full throttle when not in use, for obvious reasons.

[Malandrix]

That's sad. It makes sense though that the safety was not on because if it is for self-defense you would need to react quickly to the situation.

Then again she should have it holstered, not in a bag.

[RelentlessAF]

Many modern guns don't have manual safeties. Self defense guns are intended to be drawn and fired quickly, under pressure it can be quite hard to deactivate a manual safety.

 

Very unfortunate.

They make guns specifically for Self-Defense only? I've found typical ownership of guns by common civilians consists of mainly a Glock which does have a manual safety.

[xvantok]

What the heck - Monica Freidman: "clearly the problem here is that there aren't enough guns in America. The victim should have been carrying at least 2 guns. Then she could have shot the Toddler first."

I am just lost for words...

[Nomy]

Really sad to read this. I can't imagine the pain the father is going through, he might even end up resenting his child because of this.

[Laputacake]

I remeber a while back this 9 year old girl was having gun lessons and the instructor gave an UZI set to automatic and when she fired it the recoil caused the instructor to have a bullet in his head. Also I think it was a micro UZI(correct me if im wrong) which has an RPM of 1200.

[Notree]

They make guns specifically for Self-Defense only? I've found typical ownership of guns by common civilians consists of mainly a Glock which does have a manual safety.

Glocks don't have manual safety's. Shows how much you know about guns. :lol:

[IP man]

how can a private person legally carry a weapon around people? Murica i guess.

[Tocsin_786]

she did have a permit

yup.. a permit to be stupid. 

[Epic_Nex]

most guns have a safety on it, and she failed to have hers on safety

[RelentlessAF]

Glocks don't have manual safety's. Shows how much you know about guns. :lol:

The ones issued to police do

 

EDIT: It's called the safe action system which is rather similar to a manual safety in all but preventing you from firing it. :

 

[MourningSouls]

They make guns specifically for Self-Defense only? I've found typical ownership of guns by common civilians consists of mainly a Glock which does have a manual safety.

Glocks have trigger safeties, not manual ones. At least that's manual in the traditional sense.

 

Basically in order to fire a Glock, a little sub-trigger type thing needs to be moved into place before the trigger can be pulled. (Contrary to what Hollywood shows, you don't have to flick anything on a Glock.)

 

The traditional style safety is a little lever towards the rear of a pistol that either blocks trigger movement or blocks the firing pin.

[Camul]

What the heck - Monica Freidman: "clearly the problem here is that there aren't enough guns in America. The victim should have been carrying at least 2 guns. Then she could have shot the Toddler first."

I am just lost for words...

 

That went way over your head. It was a shot at people that use the "we need more guns" defence every time someone goes on a shooting spree. They weren't being serious.

[Guest Kloaked]

They make guns specifically for Self-Defense only? I've found typical ownership of guns by common civilians consists of mainly a Glock which does have a manual safety.

 

Yes, and they're generally very small and almost look like fake guns.

[RelentlessAF]

Glocks have trigger safeties, not manual ones. At least that's manual in the traditional sense.

 

Basically in order to fire a Glock, a little sub-trigger type thing needs to be moved into place before the trigger can be pulled. (Contrary to what Hollywood shows, you don't have to flick anything on a Glock.)

 

The traditional style safety is a little lever towards the rear of a pistol that either blocks trigger movement or blocks the firing pin.

Yes the safe action system. Which is fairly similar to a safety in all but preventing you, the gun wielder from firing it. That is still a safety.

[Art Vandelay]

How stupid do you have to be to carry a gun in your purse and make the purse accessible to your child.

Carrying it in your purse is not only a bad idea, but for a 2 year old to get in it, it'd need to not have a latch or zipper on it. 

 

I assume people are going to spin this as if it wasn't just complete negligence and that guns are the problem here.

If she'd left her car running, left the car, then the kid put it into drive and killed someone, everyone would just say the mother was negligent there.

 

 

Concealed carry. I openly carry mine, in a locking holster, in walmart. Perfectly legal.

I'm not really a fan of open carrying guns because I worry people won't realize you need a locking holster for that... and that could end badly

[xvantok]

That went way over your head. It was a shot at people that use the "we need more guns" defence every time someone goes on a shooting spree. They weren't being serious.

Ah man sorry, didn't realise. Still such a tragedy though