Here's a lovely way to spend a holiday with a 3 year old - go hunting!

6-year-old in hospital after hunting accident
3-year-old brother pulled trigger while reaching for gun, Williamson County officials say

By Katie Humphrey
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Friday, December 30, 2005

A 6-year-old boy is at Brackenridge Hospital after his 3-year-old brother shot him in the leg this morning in a hunting accident in rural Williamson County, officials said.

The 6-year-old was sitting on a four-wheeler all-terrain vehicle shortly before 10 a.m. when his younger brother reached for a .22-caliber gun that was propped up against the vehicle, said Williamson County Sheriff's spokesman John Foster. The three-year-old pulled the trigger, hitting his brother in the thigh, Foster said.

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The brothers, whose names have not been released, had accompanied their father and three other people on a hunting expedition early this morning, which was wrapping up when the shooting happened. The boys' father was standing near the four-wheeler when the incident occurred, Foster said.

Officials are continuing to investigate the shooting, but believe that it was an accident, Foster said. No one was taken into custody and it is unknown at this time whether charges will be filed against the boys' father, he said.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/12/31shooting.html

but, endangering the welfare of a child seems appropriate here. Jesus.

HUNTING!!

to Phil Parlock and his relatives. (He's the asshole who was bringing his very young sons to the rallies)

What a slime he is. Remember that picture of his kid crying?

Complete and utter scuzzball. The MSM needs to focus on his kind more.

You have to learn'em good against them terrarists.

that the majority of Americans are stupid, right?

LOL

Of course I know that.

and have his 6 year old brother get shot to boot.

I swear to God, there are some stupid people out there.

That is so wrong on so many levels I can't begin to fathom just what that father was thinking. Or drinking.

There needs to be an investigation into this family, if only to let these swaggering macho dimwits all over the place that hunting is not an age appropriate sport to bring a three year old along on.

Spectator sports barely qualify. Barely.

My kid wanted to go hunting from the time he was probably 3 or 4, and it was a real problem for me to tell him no until he was 12. But I did and he learned quite a bit about firearms in the meantime. Now, he could care less about hunting (he's 40). I rarely go anymore because of changes in ownership and too many hunters like the asswipe in the article.

http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/new_rules/20050923.html

New Rule: If you give a nine-year-old a hunting rifle, expect to have a hole in your head next to the one you already have. That's right. Fathers are signing up their kids to win free hunting trips. Great time to find out she's pissed about not getting that doll. I'm sorry, but the first time your daughter should see a shotgun is at her wedding when she's 14.

oh, I don't know, adults?

Or at least young people who have reached the age of reason?!

:mad:

This never should have happened. I'm sorry.

Here's just the umpteenth example of guns hurting someones family in a tragic way. I hope this child isn't crippled and I hope the father goes to jail for awhile to think over his error in judgement.

I believe they would if it happened where I live.

at age three for short periods. Both of them killed their first deer at age six, and are both accomplished hunters and marksmen-one 14, one 20. The fourteen year old still does not hunt alone, because that is the law. I am proud of my boys, proud of their upbringing, and proud of their success in life. The problem with the Williamson county boys was improper instruction, improper supervision, and unsafe parenting.

where the kids could grab them.

:crazy:

IMHO - who the HELL takes a 3 yo hunting? Or a 6 yo for that matter?

(FYI - I grew up hunting.)

What a moran.

fucking idiots

Those damn things are the greatest producers of pediatric organs for transplant since the invention of the drunken driver. Then, you let a three year old get with arms reach of a loaded rifle! Damn, all I can say, is that this is why cousins shouldn't marry.

20 years ago, the kid across the street from us was riding a three wheeler and went over the handlebars head first into a mailbox. He had a concussion and a broke clavicle and was hospitalized overnight.

Next day, I look out my front window and there he is, riding up and down the street with his arm in a sling.

His dad had guns too. :scared:

I have an uncle who shot himself in the foot at about age 14, I think. A cousin has taken his son hunting almost since birth - in fact, his first outfit after coming home from the hospital was camo (and this family is well off, not redneck, strangely). That little boy shot his first deer (himself, with no help holding the rifle or aiming from his dad) last year at age 6. To me, this is SICK. Totally sick. It is wholly unnatural and violent to teach little boys (and it is almost always little boys, isn't it? I was never taken hunting, being female, even though I was the only child of a hunter!) to shoot animals that don't want to kill you back and that you don't need for food. Like my now-seven-year-old cousin. He lives in a wealthy suburb, has a stay-at-home-mom, gets all the best Ralph Lauren clothes, etc., etc. I just don't get it. I cannot understand why anyone would think it's a good idea, or character-building, or a bonding experience, to take out a very small child (or anyone, for that matter), and kill wild animals will a gun - from afar, in a big deer stand. If you live in the wilds of Appalachia or something, that's different - I understand that. But most of us live in a different world now. And I can only see this kind of thing as backward and barbaric. And child abuse.

It's not hot enough to "forget" a kid in the car (and get off because of "suffering enough already") and hypothermia is unpredictable. Hunting accidents are a great way be relieved of parenting and get sympathy, too. Bet this guy wishes his three-year-old had better aim.