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Getbig Main Boards => Politics and Political Issues Board => Topic started by: loco on June 10, 2008, 05:10:14 AM
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Mon Jun 9, 9:24 PM ET
COLUMBIA, S.C. - A 4-year-old girl shot herself in the chest Monday after snatching her grandmother's handgun from the woman's purse while riding in a shopping cart at a Sam's Club store, authorities said.
A witness, Lueen Homewood, said store workers grabbed first-aid materials off store shelves to help the grandmother as she cradled the wounded child near the store's pharmacy, The (Columbia) State newspaper reported on its Web site.
The girl was rushed to a hospital in critical condition and was recovering Monday afternoon after surgery, said police department spokesman Brick Lewis. Hospital officials would not release her condition after the operation.
Lewis said the grandmother, Donna Hutto Williamson, has a permit to carry a concealed weapon and the purse containing the small-caliber handgun was in the cart near the child. The 47-year-old Williamson, of Salley, was not immediately charged with a crime.
Williamson, a South Carolina magistrate, was distraught after the shooting, her mother-in-law said.
"The grandmother is just beating herself up," said Inease Williamson, 68. "She is just so upset. Everyone is upset."
Officials said the shooting, which was captured on store surveillance cameras, appeared to be accidental. Lewis said police would not release the video.
The store was closed while police investigated the shooting. It reopened Monday afternoon.
"Everyone at Sam's Club is deeply saddened by today's tragedy," Tara Stewart, state spokeswoman for Wal-Mart and Sam's Club, said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the little girl and her family."
Concealed weapons permit holders in South Carolina are not allowed to carry weapons into buildings that prohibit it, or into government buildings, schools and daycare facilities, among other places.
The Sam's Club store does not have a sign prohibiting guns inside.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080610/ap_on_re_us/sam_s_club_child_shot
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Incompetent old woman might as well put the gun in the kid's toybox.
When you carry a weapon you have a great responsibility to keep that thing out of reach. If it's in your purse and you're carrying a kid, turn on safety and/or remove the round from the chamber.
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Irresponsible parenting at it's very best.
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wow, I dont know if I'd ever be able to forgive that woman for being so stupid.
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:'(
I hope everyone concerned recovers from this unfortunate tragic incident.
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Damn thats rough. If it was alarge caliber itd be over....
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Long live the 2nd Ammendment!
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Mon Jun 9, 9:24 PM ET
COLUMBIA, S.C. - A 4-year-old girl shot herself in the chest Monday after snatching her grandmother's handgun from the woman's purse while riding in a shopping cart at a Sam's Club store, authorities said.
That sucks. Grandma should not be leaving loose guns sitting in her freakin' purse. A gun is no to be sitting in a bag mixed with your wallet and lipstick. All the women I have instructed on CCW, I made that VERY clear to them. You carry correctly or dont carry, but gun is not an accessory that gets dropped into a hand bag with your other junk. People are stupid and do stupid things. However, you can't regulate stupid. RIP little girl.
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old should not be allowed to drive or carry weapons...
they are better suited as being made into dog food! ;D
hopefully gramma will earn herself a darwin award soon
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Irresponsible parenting at it's very best.
Epic spelling at its very best.
::)
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When you carry a weapon you have a great responsibility to keep that thing out of reach. turn on safety and/or remove the round from the chamber.
I'm wondering about the SAFETY myself >:(
:'(
I hope everyone concerned recovers from this unfortunate tragic incident.
??? unfortunate is a pollyanna way of looking at this ??? irresponsible is more accurate > Retarded is even closer >:(
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I'm wondering about the SAFETY myself >:(
Some guns don't have safeties. The solution there is to keep the chamber unloaded, or better yet, keep it safe. I have carried with no safety, chambered, for 11 years now with nothing even close to an accident. It's on my hip or its in a lockbox. Nowhere else for that piece to be.
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They need to teach kids about guns in school at a young age. I think that would help much.
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They need to teach kids about guns in school at a young age. I think that would help much.
they do that in the very progressive country of afghanistan ::)
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Epic spelling at its very best.
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Surprise, surprise - you never post on politics but here you are quoting me yet again and being impolite. This is quite the trend now I see.
I am not speaking in my own language, so would you care to address me in any other, as obviously I am most competent in my native tongue above all else.
I hope you are well versed in multiple languages, as if not, I am eminently more literate than you obviously.
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They need to teach kids about guns in school at a young age. I think that would help much.
I wouldn't have minded a class on heavy weaponry with hands on experience in grammar school.
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Surprise, surprise - you never post on politics but here you are quoting me yet again and being impolite. This is quite the trend now I see.
I am not speaking in my own language, so would you care to address me in any other, as obviously I am most competent in my native tongue above all else.
I hope you are well versed in multiple languages, as if not, I am eminently more literate than you obviously.
Je vous emmerde, espece de couilles.
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Je vous emmerde, espece de couilles.
Tu parle francais? Tres magnifique!
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Tu parle parles francais? Tres magnifique!
Mais oui, camarade!
Je n'attendais pas que tu sois francophone toi aussi!
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they do that in the very progressive country of afghanistan ::)
lol
Just the basics in American Public Schools.
(http://blogs.abcnews.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/24/armedchildren_mn.jpg)
Really I just a basic course on Fire Arms Safety.
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Mais oui, camarade!
Je n'attendais pas que tu sois francophone toi aussi!
Hahaha, I had it as parles but changed it right before.
Je ne parle pas francais tres bien.
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Hahaha, I had it as parles but changed it right before.
Je ne parle pas francais tres bien.
Alors il te faut un peu de pratique! J'en ai besoin moi aussi. Ca fait longtemps que j'ai eu la chance de parler ou ecrire en francais.
Quand on vit la, c'est dur de trouver d'autres francophones!
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lol
Just the basics in American Public Schools.
(http://blogs.abcnews.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/24/armedchildren_mn.jpg)
Really I just a basic course on Fire Arms Safety.
actually in middle school that would help...instill in the kids exactly how dangerous guns can be if improperly handeled..
back growing up in paki we had a few sitting under thee teli with a few vhs tapes..
we never touched em as kids cause they were not objects of interest...if ya see something all the time, it loses its novelty..
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back growing up in paki we had a few sitting under thee teli with a few vhs tapes..
we never touched em as kids cause they were not objects of interest...if ya see something all the time, it loses its novelty..
Same here...
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Is crime in America that bad that everyone has to carry a gun to feel safe?
America = No.1 baby ::)