Girl mistakes gun for Wii controller - kills herself

I can't wait for people to blame the Wii instead of the Stepfather leaving a gun around and the parents buying a game for a 3 year old that involves a gun. xTheExploited

[QUOTE="bloodling"]

[QUOTE="Dark__Link"] The real gun weighs over a pound. The toy gun weighs a few ounces. Even a toddler can differentiate between differently weighted objects.Dark__Link

Of course shes stupid, her parents are stupid times ten and shes 3 years old! I don't know many brilliant 3 years old, do you?

Am I the only one wondering why a 3 year old girl would want to be playing a game that requires a gun in the first place?

had left a semi-automatic weapon on the living room table

...........that just makes me angry..........

Don't blame Nintendo. Who the hell leaves a gun on a table with a child in the home?

Forever_Posting

The parents will get charged with negligence leading to death right? Hell they should be chaged with more than that imo.

And yet another death due to Americas gun laws putting weapons into the hands of people like her parents.

Wow...that's hella sad :( my condolences go out to her family, and i hope she rests in peace. Always it's such a shame to see soo many people die sooo young, it's just not right :(

[QUOTE="Hali_Strikes"]

wow- the child is not stupid, 3 year olds have a very hard time understanding they can get hurt from anything... let alone a gun, I can see why she was mistaken, you also have to realize that she probably couldn't tell the difference between the gun and the controller because the table was probably taller that her.

that guy should win the stupidest douche father of the year award. who the hell leaves a gun on the table when there's a 3 year old in the house? oh ya, some hick from tennessee.

Dark__Link

To be a little fair to the mother I don't know that if I just looked up and saw the kid playing I could differentiate between a real gun and a replica, but the problem I think is that as soon as the dad says, "I'm getting my gun out," something in that mom's brain should be like, "my kid's in the living room playing, make sure she's nowhere near the gun at all times." Of course maybe she didn't realize or expect that the father would be stupid enough to leave it in reach of her child, that is the most brainless thing in this whole story, but I would expect that with a child playing and a gun out a responsible parent would know enough to make sure the gun is nowhere near the kid. "There's no one there, but I'm leaving the gun out just in case." "Is it out of my child's reach?" "Oh hell, that would have been dumb of me, i'll put it on a counter she can't get to."

The parents will get charged with negligence leading to death right? Hell they should be chaged with more than that imo.

And yet another death due to Americas gun laws putting weapons into the hands of people like her parents.

htekemerald

this is why i support strict gun control...

to think these people had a semi-automatic weapon in their house because they wanted to "protect" their family..

Well I guess it's game over for her.Nerd_Man

I guess she didn't get any 1up's beforehand...............................I'm going to hell aren't I?

Very sad.

[QUOTE="Dark__Link"][QUOTE="bloodling"]

Of course shes stupid, her parents are stupid times ten and shes 3 years old! I don't know many brilliant 3 years old, do you?

Gaming-Planet

You can know what things are at that stage, but you can't really differentiate between things, it's called cognative development. Up until about age two children know only through their senses. When they get to about age two they start to be able to identify things, but cannot describe them. Objects to them have only one meaning, their birthday is not both their birthday and wednesday to them, it's just their birthday. They also cannot judge weight, size, or volume, which only starts to happen between ages seven and eleven.

I guess she didn't get any 1up's beforehand...............................I'm going to hell aren't I?

Serraph105

I guess she didn't get any 1up's beforehand...............................I'm going to hell aren't I?

Serraph105

Probably.

Tell Nerd_man I said Hi when you get there, okay? :P

Well I guess it's game over for her.Nerd_Man

-_-

Mediocre jokes aside, those are some dumb parents. WHO THE ***ING HECK LEAVES A GUN RIGHT NEXT TO AN IDENTICAL CONTROLLER?????????

we dont need guns in a civilized societyAtheists_Pwn

We need:

Mainly parents fault, but I thought the real gun was the bottom as well! :lol:

At a quick glance that is... That is why they should make it a bright colour so these things do not happen as well.

The parents will get charged with negligence leading to death right? Hell they should be chaged with more than that imo.

htekemerald

Unfortunately, the article says no charges were filed.

Enough with the joke cracking.....not funny at all...cell_dweller

I guess she didn't get any 1up's beforehand...............................I'm going to hell aren't I?

Serraph105

Stupid father, stupid mother, and stupid child. The stupid child was the least deserving, though... so this is a shame. :(Dark__Link

I fail to see how anyone can call the child stupid in this case. The child was 3 YEARS OLD for crying out loud.

The story sounds way to fishy.....I dont beleive this guy would leave the gun out in plain sight/reachable distance for the child, AND Right next to the wiimote that looks just like it..and the fact that the mom was right there..It doesnt add up.

What bothers me about this article the most is that the step father not only left his gun laying where a 3 year old could reach it, but that he left it LOADED where a 3 year old could reach it. I know plenty of people that own guns, but they keep them unloaded in freaking locked vaults or in locked display cases so there children can't reach them. How idiotic was this guy? It's horrible. Just horrible.

parenting failBiancaDK

Videogames kill. Just something else people will use in their bogus studies about how videogames promote violence and kill. People are such retards

Natural selection at work.

harjyotbanwait

I don't remember ever being that dumb at the that age.Gaming-Planet

Who the hell leaves a gun lying around the house with a little child there?

whenever its a child that gets killed or seriously injured its makes me really sad :( poor child

Natural selection at work.

harjyotbanwait

It's the parents fault for leaving a weapon in the open and it's Nintendo's fault in some portion for making a gun controller that looks very similar to a real handgun. I honestly thought that it was a Barreta 9mm at first glance. So a better forum topic would be "Is nintendo making thier controllers too lifelike?" (Plus I don't see why a child should be playing a game that involves any toy gun but that's just a personal opinion)

[QUOTE="Gaming-Planet"]I don't remember ever being that dumb at the that age.rowzzr

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[QUOTE="Dark__Link"]Stupid father, stupid mother, and stupid child. The stupid child was the least deserving, though... so this is a shame. :(Dark__Link

how is the child stupid?

she mistook a real gun for a wii controller that looks just like a gun

This is not the little girl's fault. The gun and controller look VERY similar. :| The father should not have left out the gun in this case. She was only 3. This is a very sad story indeed. My thoughts and wishes go out to everyone involved...RIP.

[QUOTE="rowzzr"][QUOTE="Gaming-Planet"]I don't remember ever being that dumb at the that age.Gaming-Planet

Terrible parenting. That is all that I have to say.

"Hmmm, guess that prowler left. Better leave my gun fully loaded with the safety off lying where a three year old can reach it while I saw some logs."

Seriously, wtf kind of logic is that?!

It's the stepfather's fault. You never leave a gun unattended, especially loaded and with a child in the house.

Awful parenting at work here. You don't leave a gun around in reach of little children, and the mother was in the same room?

parenting failBiancaDK

this is very tragic.

RIP little girl.