Authorities say a 4-year-old boy grabbed a loaded gun at a family cookout and accidentally shot and killed the wife of a Tennessee sheriff's deputy.
Investigators say Wilson County Deputy Daniel Fanning on Saturday was showing his weapons to a relative in a bedroom of his Lebanon home when the toddler came in and picked up a gun off the bed. Sheriff Robert Bryan says the weapon discharged, hitting 48-year-old Josephine Fanning.
She was pronounced dead at the scene. The child is not related to her or her husband.
Bryan says the shooting was a terrible accident and that within seconds of Fanning placing the gun on the bed, the toddler picked it up.
The gun was not Fanning's service weapon and the sheriff says the deputy's weapons are normally stored in a safe.
Friday, April 12, 2013
4-Year-old Boy Accidentally Kills Tenn. Deputy's Wife Thanks to the Deputy's Incredible Negligence
Yahoo reports with video
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This shows how important it is to keep positive control of your firearms. Many states have have safe storage laws that address this issue. That the negligent person is a law enforcement officer makes it all the worse since firearms are part of their profession and therefore should be held to a higher standard.
ReplyDeleteI've been reading your blog for a while now, great blog, great service for educating the public.
ReplyDeleteIt amazes me how often a story (like this one) happens multiple times a day across America.
I've read there are well over ten thousand killings by gunshot in America each year, half are suicides. I fail to understand why Americans have not do something about their gun problem, before now. Newtown motivates? That many children are killed by guns every month in America.
I understand the "rights" thing (2nd Amend.) but that does not explain why there has not been more serious action on gun control in America.
Americans prove at home and abroad, they are a blood thirsty lot.
Violence, war, and destruction are the perennial themes of mankind. While our species may somehow lack the creativity to find a way feed ourselves, we somehow are able to devise ever more creative and diabolical means of killing one another. This troubling phenomena is not merely limited to America. If you are (presumably) of British or Anglican decent (due to your gratuitous expression of snobbery, and your use of the English language), then it must be noted that only a century ago, your culture had amassed the largest Empire seen since the days of Temujin. All cultures would be subject to a similar level of armed mortality, if they where rich enough to afford firearms. You barbarians are reduced to impaling each other with knives and pointy objects, as you can't afford guns to commit your macabre acts.
DeleteSpoken like a true American and lover of violence. As you attempt to include the rest of the world in your kill philosophy, the facts don't back you up. Today, no country can compete with America's gun kill rate, but keep deceiving yourself maybe that will make the reality of American gun deaths go away, or seem normal.
DeleteWhat is this "America" that you are referring to? Two continents bear that name. A intelligent person would have correctly referred to the United States, as opposed to branding the native populations of two contents as violent, and exposing your racist beliefs that all non-Europeans are savages.
DeleteLook at the Homicide rates of other societies. The United States has only a modest love for murder, compared to the simian denizens of the old world.
What other country has a gun shot death rate of over 20,000 a year?
DeleteYou seem ignorant of the meaning of the word "rate". Rate refers to the occurrence of a phenomenon in relation to the size of an observed population. America is the third largest country in the world, and when compared to the murder rate (and firearm murder rate) of other countries, the U.S. has only a moderate problem.
DeleteIt is also apparent that the People's Republic of China (due to their particularly barbaric method of Capital Punishment), Syria, Sudan, Rhodesia, and, Pakistan among many others have a higher NUMBER of firearm murders than the United States, most of which are committed by their own government.
Honduras has the highest firearm murder RATE in the world.
Thanks Anonymous. You're points are absolutely right on. You can tell when the opposition resorts to nit picking. You should have said The US instead of America. And you should have specified that the US kill rate is highest among 1st World Countries. The gun nuts love to point out that many shit-hole banana republics have it worse, as if that's something to be proud of.
DeleteThis 4 year old is a Second Amendemnt Hero! He saved himself from being aborted.
ReplyDeleteBefore you spout another of your primitive screeds aimed at the Hundreds of Millions of Americans who exercise their Constitutional Rights (and other 1 Billion+ citizens of the world who are peacefully armed), it would be appreciated if you where to make a coherent point. Why do you insist on responding with a simian display of dogmatism, and encourage someone who can scarcely maintain a cordial discussion? Your comments serve no purpose other than to bastardize your cause and trivialize a national issue of deadly importance. Such depravity is only paralleled by the drunken rants of demmocommie and the soundbite parrot that calls itself "dog gone". Either you stop with the silly ad hominems, or you admit that you are a troll which is mad obvious by your posting of the screeds of a pre-adolecent brat such as yourself.
DeleteAlso, it would be helpful if you would be kind enough to refrain from posting the rantings of a schizophrenic.
Specop,
DeleteYour arrogance is matched only by your ignorance. My position is that held by Republicans in Congress. So, that's rather "coherent".
You, however, have no qualms about being a shill for the NRA and other Gun Lunatics who support the rights of Murderers over innocent Americans.
No go suck start your 9mm and do the world a favor.
Gene, look up Gecko45. Specop is either a reincarnation or an imitator.
DeleteSpecop, it's not 100s of millions. If you're in the right, why do you have to resort to such obvious exaggeration as that?
DeleteOne of the higher estimates of gun owners is 100 million. Many of them are far from gun-rights advocates. The true believers are relatively few.
Grung_e_Gene,
DeleteWhy the hell would I carry some POS 9mm? I carry REAL weapons for my duty, not some glorified BB gun that would bounce off the weakest body armor.
The one who goes by "Greg Camp":
If you wannabees had just answered my question about body armor (my technique of double layering body armor) to stop the .338 Lapua that comes flying my way on duty, then you would not have heard my responses on Glocktalk.
You are the gun fetishist, as you obviously know nothing about REAL guns (not some airsoft toy that mommy took away from you after she found you playing with it) You are a disgrace to REAL professionals like me who protect society from Cripps, Skinheads, EX-KGB Russian mob along with the other usual suspects for such a vile atrocity as shoplifting which ran rampant one of our nations most dangerous malls. Those heroic men and women who are entrusted with such a task, are selected from the best of the Security/Military/Paramilitary industry, and are trained intensively in the art of Ninjutsu, adapting the ancient techniques to suit the Kevlar body armor that worn daily, in anticipation of the next machinegun-weilding crackhead rampage unleashed upon your shopping spree. Wanabes like this guy can go and strap on some silly little civvie-legal toy and parade around, but if (and more likley when) you go bad, real professionals like me have to clean up the mess.
Mikeb:
It is not an exaggeration. I shouldn't have implied that all of those 100million+ are responsible enough to own a gun (hint hint, Greggy).
Gecko45, provide one link to a report of a .338 Lapua round being fired at anyone in a mall. That kind of thing would get in the news. Otherwise, you're full of shit.
DeletePROOF
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Kq78G2nxA
Watch and weep. Gecko45 is here to protect you.
WOW! I thought you would post this weeks ago, and under the name E.N.
DeleteThanks for showing us that you are really E.N., Specop/Gecko.
BTW, If you're the original Gecko--along with being E.N. and others, I have to say, your skills have slipped Mr. Trev.
STFU Tenneseean wannabe.
DeleteThe original video was "cleaned up" after the reporter mentioned that the sniper was part of an elite undercover North Korean terrorist cell.
I had to post something, but a video that has been removed hardly proves that I am that pinko bastard.
You may be ok now, poised behind the monitor in mamma's basement, but once you step into my mall, consider this your warning.........
Um, you post a propaganda video from North Korea as your evidence? O.K., excuse me for not being precise. Provide credible evidence.
DeleteBut here's a clue. Since you claimed that you can't reveal what happens in your mall, you've shown yourself to be a liar. If you really worked for an agency that barred you from speaking about incidents, you wouldn't be allowed to post comments about your job on-line.