3 year old shoots 4 year old

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Two children of pre-school age have shot and wounded other youngsters in separate incidents in the US.


The house in South Carolina where a boy shot his brother


A three-year-old boy shot his four-year-old brother in Gray Court, South Carolina, with a .22-calibre handgun.
The injured child, who was airlifted to hospital with a gunshot wound to his stomach, has undergone surgery and is expected to recover.
The boys and their father had stayed overnight at a family friend's house when the younger brother woke up, found the gun under his bed and accidentally fired at his brother, Sheriff Ricky Chastain said.
He added: "Kids see things on TV, the toy guns, the three-year-old probably didn't know what he had as far as any intentions of hurting his brother.
"This is something the family will be dealing with for some time."
In the other incident, a two-year-old girl is in a critical condition in hospital after being shot by her four-year-old brother at their home in Las Vegas.
The children's father was at the house when the shooting happened, police said.
Officers are investigating how the boy managed to get hold of the 9mm handgun he fired at his sister.
Police spokesman Bill Cassell said: "While the brother was holding the weapon it discharged, striking his sister's torso."
He added: "At this time it appears the (boy) was able to gain access to the weapon because it was improperly secured."
The shootings came less than a week after a five-year-old boy shot and killed himself with a handgun in his father's vehicle outside a pharmacy in Las Vegas.
His father, 31-year-old Alex Kopystenski, has been charged with child endangerment.

What on earth :S

[LuketheDuke]

I wonder how the NRA will react to this...

but is a shame they still have a silly constitutional right to bear arms in the states as it means guns can fall into the wrong hands.

Thered be massive uproar if that happened here.

[Immenseman]

innit, imagine it happened here. would be nuts.

[GommeInc]

That's America for you, do they still have the gun ownership laws? I'm not actually surprised. It's like if a child stabbed another child with a knife in their home and were related to each other - the tools are there.

[ifuseekamy]

Their reason for having guns is stupid, I was once asked one and it's apparently so they can form a militia if their president is a dictator :S Just get a monarch or something!

[Jordan:A]

Arent they allowed to shoot someone if they go onto there property?

[StefanWolves]

yeah they are allowed to do that lol.

only in america, thing is, the 3 yr old can just say (if he can talk) "it was self defence!" and they can't do anything about it.

[IceNineKills]

were they black?

[CHA!NGANG]

It's not the dads fault really. It was his mates who had the gun under the bed. The Dad couldn't prevent it.

[Gullable]

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