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Well if you thought the McCanns were irresponsible parents - check out this story.
Toddler, 3, shoots herself after thinking hangun was Wii control | The Daily Telegraph

pimmo2000

iTrader: (6)

More ****e made up by the media to blame violence on computer games !

How can they know what a 3 year old was thinking ? its an object .. an object they haven't seen before, of course they will pick it up !

Its totally the fault of the parents !

DCI Gene Hunt

Probably on Arsebook

BOB.T

Who cares what the gun might or might not look like, who in their right min... oh hang on it's the US

Jamz3k

the gun was lying on a table in reach of children, yet the headline can make reference to Wii remotes? I think someones missing the point here.

stilover

The Toddler had just been watching the episode of "The Simpsons" where Maggy shot Mr. Burns.

Ban the Simpsons off Telly.

urban

iTrader: (1)

America is a real fcuked up country.

I suppose you have to remember its their god given right to own a gun - the more the merrier - stupid b@stards

Leslie

Not much of a sense of responsibility there then!

Les

DCI Gene Hunt

Ban America

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

It happens every year in America, whilst there are so many lethal firearms in circulation, sadly, ineviatably kids will get hold of them and people die, adults get hold of them and people die, I am glad that our government got rid of firearms as if they hadnt how many more Dunblanes would there have been, how many in the US since then ?

hodgy0_2

quite a large number of Americans believe that the way to stop future school massacres like Dunblane is to have more guns and less gun control

Terminator X

iTrader: (7)

What's the population of America? How man guns are there? Surprised it doesn't happen once a day myself.

TX.

CrisPDuk

Goes to show we don't have a monopoly on letting clueless fcukwits breed

The reason there are so many school shootings in the US is less to do with the availability of firearms, and more because their education system is completely fcuked up

stedee

iTrader: (4)

no its not
how many killings would there be over here if guns were legal
had an argument at school, the kid is bigger than me so he will beat me up, i know i will shoot him

hodgy0_2

BBC - Mark Mardell's America: Armed and ready to shop

CrisPDuk

That's not how most school shootings happen in the US though is it? The large majority of them (or at least the ones that make the press) occur when some kid has been victimised and ostracised over a long period of time, until they finally decide 'enough is enough', raid Dad's armoury, and go walkabout

Granted though, I could easily picture your scenario happening over here, on a regular basis, if firearms were more readily accessible