Florida mom, shot by four-year-old, won't face charges over gun
Source: Reuters
Florida mom, shot by four-year-old, won't face charges over gun
By Letitia Stein
May 6, 2016
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - A Florida mother agreed to store her gun more safely and take other steps to avoid criminal charges after her four-year-old son picked up the gun she kept in her car and accidentally shot her in the back, state prosecutors said on Friday.
Jamie Lynn Gilt, 31, has entered a deferred prosecution agreement on a charge of unsafe storage of a firearm, Spencer Hathaway, a spokesman for State Attorney's Office in Florida's Seventh Judicial Circuit, said in a statement.
She is required to complete a gun safety course and install a mounted holster in her vehicle, and show proof that firearms in her home are safely stored, the statement said.
Gilt must also give 10 speeches about the March 8 incident, which drew wide attention after local media reported she was a staunch advocate for the right to carry guns, citing her apparent comments on social media.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-mother-shot-young-son-gun-accident-avoid-181622139.html?nhp=1
Ohioblue22
(1,430 posts)FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)If she doesn't learn from that, then jail won't teach her anything.
retrowire
(10,345 posts)I remember one time I was in a car accident that totaled my car and had me sent to the hospital.
While in the hospital on the bed, a police officer entered the room and gave me a ticket for "following too closely" even though multiple witnesses gave an account that a car slammed on it's brakes up ahead and caused the pile up.
Anyways, I think I was punished enough in life by losing my car, why the fuck did I need a fine on top of that? Fuck you police officer. And good day.
beastie boy
(9,378 posts)Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)good lawd
Journeyman
(15,036 posts)Getting shot is her trouble. Charges, and/or a fine or imprisonment is society's retribution, exacted because she needlessly and criminally endangered all our lives.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)"How I got shot by my toddler and got to keep my guns".
She's a well-known gun nutter, and is not even being forced to examine the wisdom of her actions. What a country.
Jopin Klobe
(779 posts)... if she "agreed to store her gun more safely" then, hell, let her go ...
... it's not like that was expected of her to begin with ...
... kind of like how we handled the banks almost collapsing the world economy ...
... "Just fine us. We can pay that. It won't happen again." -- Jamie "Zirconia" Dimon
... "OK, Jamie." ...
... As Mr. Ray Charles said, "It do what it do." ...
Darb
(2,807 posts)Dontchaknow.