How can a 9 year old boy even get hold of a gun?
https://news.sky.com/story/boy-shoots-sister-in-argument-over-video-game-controller-11296605
https://news.sky.com/story/boy-shoots-sister-in-argument-over-video-game-controller-11296605
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9 year old boy shoots sister over video game controller.
- Thread starter Broken Hope
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What the fuck. shot her in the head. how do you get to the point where you even have a gun in that argument, now the girl is dead.
Fucking hell America
Fucking hell America
Yeah cause a knife is as instantaneous and as lethal as a FUCKING BULLET TO THE BRAIN.
I mean if you kill somebody it's pretty obvious your not very healthy up there
I'm pretty sure you can kill someone with a knife pretty easily.
The point is that the gun wasn't a problem. He could've used anything to kill her. He used a gun cause that's what he saw on movies etc
I could say the same for someone who can't see the difference between using a knife or a gun in this tragic situation.
I think Shugga's point is if the brother only stabbed her once, she may actually have a chance to live as opposed to being shot once. We simply don't know if the brother would have stopped after stabbing her once or not.
This is just a horrific situation.
This is the only civilized country where this happens regularly. You have a problem.
Nothing changes the fact that there is a chance, even small, that she could have survived a knife attack. A nine year old will have a hell of a time getting a knife through bone, at least.
A gun to the back of the head gives us a more definite result.
The gun helps, my friend. Lacking immediate access to deadly weaponry, the child might have just resorted to fist-fighting, like millions of other siblings in households without guns. Any idea how hard it would be for a child to gut their sibling with a knife? Or slit their throat? Not really comparable to pulling a trigger.
The day the news stops reporting gun violence is the day Americans decide it's no longer a problem worth addressing.
True, every tool is about as deadly as a gun. If the kid had been trained in martial arts maybe his hands could have been used just as effectively. We can at least agree this wouldn't have happened if the sister had a gun, right?
So what's the problem then? How could this situation been avoided?
it takes a lot of force to put the blade of a knife into a skull, so I'd say there'd be much better odds of the girl surviving
lol
Uh
Maybe not let the kid have access to a loaded gun?
Just a thought.
A 9 year old having easy unsupervised access to a gun is a problem, even if it's not the specific one you are holding on to in order to dismiss the other one.
There can be multiple issues at play.
I don't expect the poster in question to seriously answer - he just seems happy to parrot NRA talking points. We all know how the situation could have been contained.
Yes, that's true. I never said that the kid should've had acces to the weapon.
Anyway, a normal kid wouldn't have done it. He has some issues.
Yeah, most people fight with their siblings when they're kids. If I'd had access to a gun when I was 9, I'm sure I would have killed my sister with it. Fortunately the worst I could do was smack her with the Millennium Falcon.
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