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8-year-old Utah boy dies after shooting himself in car while mother was inside store (www.cbsnews.com)

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An 8-year-old boy has died after accidentally shooting himself with a loaded gun left in a car while his mother was inside an Utah convenience store, police said.

The boy was alone in the car about 7:40 p.m. Monday in Lehi — a city about 30 miles south of Salt Lake City — when he shot himself in the head, Jeanteil Livingston with the Lehi City Police Department confirmed to CBS News. The incident occurred in a vehicle located in the parking lot of a Maverick gas station, police said.

The boy was taken to a local hospital in extremely critical condition. He was later airlifted to a hospital up north and died Tuesday morning, police said.

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[-] [email protected] 85 points 1 week ago

I can't imagine leaving a loaded weapon unsecured because: I'm not an idiot.

I have them secured where they belong in a locked gun safe with the ammo in a different location secured in its own safe. It's not hard.

Now, this mom gets to enjoy the horror of seeing her sons brains blown out in the back of her car played over and over and over in her mind. Stupid fuck.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago

I am going to guess that the loaded gun was in the car for "protection". You know, against the rampant carjacking epidemic currently crippling Lehi, Utah. /s

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Ah, well at least the car wasn’t stolen. Gotta find those silver linings in every tragedy. (/s for the context-illiterate.)

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

yep, good thing the gun was there to keep her safe, i bet her son really appreciates that.

God these news articles, and the insanity in the USA, makes me angry.

In a woodworking group im part of, people show off their home made, wood gun racks, which are scary enough, but once in a while someone posts a picture of a full gun room, with hundereds of long arms on the walls. Often people say "i bet this guy is scared of nothin"

This guy is fucking terrified. I always compare it to a fire extinguisher: You go to a friends house, and they have a fire extinguisher in the kitchen, they are sane.

You go to a friends house, they have 6 fire extinguishers in every room, including the bathroom: they are terrified.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Well she was probably republican so they see THE OTHER™ in every shadow.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

I have them secured where they belong ~~in a locked gun safe~~ in a museum to teach people the wrongs of our past.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

I can't imagine needing a loaded weapon because I'm not a fucking coward that's scared of my own shadow

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Unless idiots are allowed to keep fully loaded weapons within easy reach of children the government will start throwing us into internment camps.

/s

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

"Oh shit, Marvin shot himself."

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I'm not an idiot. Many people aren't, but this is Utah. ..

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