Police recommend charges for gun lovin' mom shot by 4-year-old son
Source: cbs
PALATKA, Fla. --Police are recommending a misdemeanor charge for the mother of a 4-year-old boy who got a hold of her handgun and shot her as they were riding in a pickup truck.
Putnam County Sheriff's Capt. Gator DeLoach said Tuesday that Jamie Gilt put a loaded gun underneath the front seat and the weapon slid into the back where her son was riding in a booster seat on March 8.
Authorities said the child had recently learned how to unbuckle himself and picked up the gun.
The boy fired through the front seat, hitting his mother in the back. She was brought to a hospital for treatment, but DeLoach wasn't sure if she is still there.
Police say they are recommending a charge of allowing a child access to a firearm.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-recommend-charge-for-mother-shot-by-4-year-old-son/
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)She was cavalier about the incident and it could happen again.
Lochloosa
(16,019 posts)duhneece
(4,105 posts)This should be felonious child abuse.
Crunchy Frog
(26,548 posts)If it were up to me, she'd lose custody of this and any other children she might have.
Absolutely beyond the pale of irresponsibility, in a "responsible gun owner".
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)elljay
(1,178 posts)Skittles
(152,967 posts)she voluntarily REPRESENTED gun humping IDIOTS
TDale313
(7,820 posts)She put that little boy at incredible risk. He could have died. And he's old enough that what happened may very well stick with him. Letting children near guns is not a tragic accident- it's a criminal act.
stone space
(6,498 posts)RKP5637
(67,032 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)hows that working out for ya FL?
surrealAmerican
(11,340 posts)They need to get that child away from this family. That is not a safe environment for a small child. The next time, he might kill somebody, or even himself.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)This shit just writes itself.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Make it a felony child endangerment against the owner of the gun any time that a child under 14 obtains control or possession of a gun.
Guns and children do not mix.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)We should ask the Supreme Court to determine whether a 3-year-old has a constitutional right to carry a gun. That would be an interesting case.
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Best gun post ever
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)permitting a child to have a gun.
Imagine the guilt that a poor little child has to live with the rest of his or her life if he or she is permitted to have or manages to get access to a gun and shoots his or her parent.
I know for a fact that has happened. And it is very hard for a child to even admit when it happens because it causes such emotional damage.
It should be felony child endangerment. And any child under 14 who is given control or possession of a gun by a parent should be placed either in a home or in foster care.
I'm not huge on gun control, but parents who have guns within the reach of children are criminals as far as I am concerned.
We have enough of a problem with adults who have guns, much less children who have them.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Agreed
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)any circumstances get it.
I have a story to tell in this regard, but I cannot share it. I will only say that I used to visit Juvenile Hall as part of my job. People can figure it out from there.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)I have no objection to kids learning to shoot under strictly supervised conditions. But negligently allowing a child to get hold of an unsecured weapon? Yeah...throw the book at them. Owning firearms is an enormous responsibility, and idiots who won't accept that responsibility shouldn't own firearms.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)disregard for human life. That is why I believe tzhat when a child gets control or posession of a gun, it should be a felony and that in a civil case, punitive damages should be awardable.
The child who uses the gun to harm someone else is also seriously harmed for life.
Judi Lynn
(160,219 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)brought.)
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Blandocyte
(1,231 posts)Lesson learned.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)Cause I feel no such certainty.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,539 posts)Otherwise, it just becomes a funny story: "Remember that time when Junior shot Mommy?"
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)That said, She appears to have not learned from the incident, so something has to be done.
Maybe wanton endangerment?
WhiteTara
(29,676 posts)but child endangerment might be good and it get the DFS involved and she will have to take parenting classes.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)A suspended sentence and banning from owning firearms would maybe most appropriate.
I think her wound should be punishment enough for now, but she should definitely be under supervision for some length of time.
mark67
(196 posts)...color me shocked
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)when he gets older with the impact of the guilt of shooting his mother. A criminal conviction of her for negligence might ameliorate that a bit.
I used ameliorate in a sentence.
crim son
(27,462 posts)whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)royalty in comparison.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)crim son
(27,462 posts)The woman has no respect for firearms and endangered herself and her child.
Darb
(2,807 posts)Not one single member of the gun humper brigade. You think that is an accident? No, that is what they are taught. The NRA teaches them to stay away from "idiot kills (insert self, son, daughter, child, neighbor, mother, father, 5, 6, 30).
It is how they operate. It is why they are here.
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Would that the rest of you lot had such conciseness of style. Most of them try
to make up for their lack of substance with verbiage. You get it out of the way
with a paragraph or two.
Personally, I believe this fool should be charged