Fewer guns, and more gun regulation, there wouldn't be stories like this. And yet the gun nuts tell us over and over and over again how we have perfectly ACCEPTABLE levels of shootings occurring. We shouldn't get upset over so few incidents, now should we? What's one gut shot 8 year old girl, more or less compared to holding their fetish objects?
EXCEPT THERE ARE NOT A FEW, there are many - too damned many.
From MSNBC.com:
8-year-old girl critically wounded in shooting at Washington school
Updated at 8:12 p.m. ET: An 8-year-old girl was critically wounded Wednesday in a shooting incident at an elementary school in Bremerton, Wash., authorities said. The school district said it appeared the shooting was an accident.
Armin Jahr Elementary School in Bremerton, about 15 miles west of Seattle, was just letting out for the day when the victim, a girl in the third grade, was shot about 1:29 p.m. local time (4:29 p.m. ET), Bremerton police said. Police said it was too early to speculate about the circumstances, but a spokeswoman for the school district told NBC station KING of Seattle that the shooting appeared to have been an accident.
The girl, identified as Amina Bowman, was in critical condition at Harborview trauma center in Seattle with a gunshot wound, the hospital said. Hospital officials said Amina was out of surgery and in intensive care but that they couldn't comment on earlier reports that she had been wounded in the stomach.
Although Amina is a minor, her identity was released after her grandmother named her in local media interviews. The woman, Cindy Kocer, told KING that the family expects Amina to be OK but is asking the public for its prayers.
Bremerton police Lt. Peter Fisher said the gun used in the shooting had been recovered and that a second student, believed to have been the shooter, was being held for questioning. The school district said that student is 9 years old and also in the third grade.
Kerri Johnson, the mother of a fourth-grader at the school, which is named for a former district superintendent, told KING that her son heard the shot.
“He’s really scared, but he’s fine,” Johnson said.
NBC News' Todd Miyazawa and Olivia Santini contributed to this report by M. Alex Johnson of msnbc.com.
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