A 5-year-old Utah boy died when he accidentally shot himself with a handgun in a small town south of Salt Lake City on Thursday. Lt.

A 5-year-old Utah boy died when he accidentally shot himself with a handgun in a small town south of Salt Lake City on Thursday, police said.

Lt. Mike Wall with the Santaquin Police Department told KSL-TV the boy found a 9 mm handgun in the back room of his house and fired a single shot. The boy’s parents and siblings were inside the home when the shooting happened but were not with him in the room.

  • dinckel@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Would love to hear about how this could have been prevented, by having more guns, and less guns restrictions

  • Shawdow194@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    At least they had a weapon to defend their family against people who would hurt them. You wouldnt want your kids getting hurt by someone being reckless with a firearm

  • JCreazy@midwest.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Media needs to stop calling these accidents. There are multiple preventable things that took place before this happened. This is negligence.

  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It’s a real shame there’s literally nothing else to be done to curb gun deaths in this country. Oh well, guess we tried.

     

    /s not needed, I hope.

     

    We’re locking up those parents, right? At the very least we’re locking up the one who was registered to own and safeguard that firearm, right?

    Authorities do not suspect foul play, and investigators are trying to determine how the boy got ahold of the gun.

    If you leave a gun you own unsecured such that a child gets it and kills themselves or others, it should be mandatory jail time. How much investigation is really needed here? Did a 5 year old spin the combination lock on a gun safe? Nope.

  • SoJB@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Kid didn’t deserve that shit.

    The parents, however, absolutely did.