Friday, June 21, 2013

12-Year-old Indiana Boy Dead - No Charges

The Republic

A 12-year-old Scipio boy has died at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis from a gunshot wound sustained earlier this week during an accidental shooting.

The death of Seth Box, son of Greg and Stacey Box, of County Road 275 West, was confirmed this morning by Detective Sgt. James Blevins of the Jennings County Sheriff's Department.

At 11:30 p.m. Monday, a 22-caliber rifle discharged while the victim’s older brother was handling the weapon inside the family home in northeastern Geneva Township. The family had been target-shooting earlier in the day, and the older brother had assumed the gun was empty, Blevins said.

Depending on how much older the older brother is, either he or his parents or all of them, should be charged with manslaughter. 

How many lives are ruined every time a kid is killed like this?  How dare the gun rights fanatics downplay it by quoting the number of deaths only and telling us it's small percantage.

What's your opinion?  Please leave a comment.

1 comment:

  1. I'm not downplaying the suffering that this family felt, but I am insisting that 600/100,000,000 is not a percentage that justifies what you propose.

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