Girl mistakes gun for Wii controller - kills herself

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

Stupid child? How is the child stupid? She is 3 years old. Put any 3 year old in the same situation and I m pretty sure it ends the same way it ended here.

RIP kid

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

How was the child stupid? She was three years old and was under the impression that the gun was a Wii controller because the Wii controller she was looking for was indeed shaped like a gun and looked very similar to her father's gun. A three year old isn't going to be able to distinguish a real gun from a fake one and even most adults would probably have to pause for a second if having to choose between which gun is the real one and which is the controller (and probably wouldn't even be able to tell if they weren't allowed to pick them up).

The only people at fault here are the parents, especially the father for being such an idiot as to leave a loaded gun with the safety off in easy reach of his toddler, much less in the ****ing living room.

[QUOTE="rowzzr"]well, right now, you're not exactly making yourself look smart. she's 3 years old. and 3 year olds know nothing yet. this article shows why game guns shouldn't look at all like real guns. also, parenting fail on both sides.Gaming-Planet

I guess I'll re-post this:

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.theone86

To be more specific:

Preoperational Stage: About age two, children enter the preoperational stage, the level of human development at which humans first use language and other symbols. Now children begin to think about the world using their imagination. But "pre-op" children between about two and six attatch meanings only to specific experiences and objects. They can identify a toy as their "favorite" but cannot describe what types of toys they like...Lacking abstract concepts, a child cannot judge size, weight, or volume.

This has proven to be universally true of all children, even Hume made casual observations about the limitations of cognitive development in infants before the theory was formulated.

Natural selection at work.

harjyotbanwait

she's 3 years old and her parents let her play a videogame? wow.........

They need way stiffer punishment for negligence like that. If a kid shoots themselves with your gun, it should be considered at least manslaughter. wstfld

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)

krs762

Stupid child? How is the child stupid? She is 3 years old. Put any 3 year old in the same situation and I m pretty sure it ends the same way it ended here.

RIP kid

1hit

Those parents fail big time. :?

Joking aside, this is almost as terrible as the South Korea couple who let there child die while taking care of an online avatar child. Kori-san

What..... Not even close.....

A Zapper looks nothing like a real gun. The gun controller shown looks very close to the real gun. And besides, it's not how old you are that determines how intelligent and aware you are; it's what you're exposed to, and how well you're parented, which unfortunately in the girl's case, is not that well.JustPlainLucas

More importantly, a zapper is bright orange and grey, children at this age can differentiate between colors, or like I said based on an experience, if you parents took you aside and said, "this is a real gun, this is your toy, they are diifferent," you might be able to differentiate at that age. However it's less likely if the gun looks exactly like the toy and, like I said before, you still can't differentiate between the weight.

parenting failBiancaDK

What..... Not even close.....

bloodling

[QUOTE="bloodling"]

What..... Not even close.....

JustPlainLucas

Yeah it's way worse, even though unfortunately the results are the same that must've been a painful death for that Korean girl. That's really really horrible...

[QUOTE="Gaming-Planet"][QUOTE="rowzzr"] I knew the difference between a nintendo zapper and a real gun. Maybe it's because I was exposed to it at an early age. A 3 year old knows a lot, trust me. My niece knows like every fast food area out there that I don't even know.theone86

I guess I'll re-post this:

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.theone86

To be more specific:

Preoperational Stage: About age two, children enter the preoperational stage, the level of human development at which humans first use language and other symbols. Now children begin to think about the world using their imagination. But "pre-op" children between about two and six attatch meanings only to specific experiences and objects. They can identify a toy as their "favorite" but cannot describe what types of toys they like...Lacking abstract concepts, a child cannot judge size, weight, or volume.

This has proven to be universally true of all children, even Hume made casual observations about the limitations of cognitive development in infants before the theory was formulated.

Well it's the parents' fault.

People like that guy feed fire to the gun control hippies

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

Forever_Posting

I agree.

However, suppose she'd been walking down th street with that Wii controller in her hand. There's at least a decent chance that she'd get shot by police officers (particularly if she was black).

There's a reason why most kids' toy guns have neon colors now.

The whole idea of a child shooting itself in the abdomen makes me sick :(alphamale1989

[QUOTE="Forever_Posting"]

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

MrGeezer

I agree.

However, suppose she'd been walking down th street with that Wii controller in her hand. There's at least a decent chance that she'd get shot by police officers (particularly if she was black).

There's a reason why most kids' toy guns have neon colors now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeOaTpYl8mE

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)

I knew the difference between a nintendo zapper and a real gun. Maybe it's because I was exposed to it at an early age. A 3 year old knows a lot, trust me. My niece knows like every fast food area out there that I don't even know.Gaming-Planet

What kind of idiot who has young children leaves a loaded gun lying around and goes to sleep? Damn some people are dumb.RAMRODtheMASTER

[QUOTE="MrGeezer"]

[QUOTE="Forever_Posting"]

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

theone86

I agree.

However, suppose she'd been walking down th street with that Wii controller in her hand. There's at least a decent chance that she'd get shot by police officers (particularly if she was black).

There's a reason why most kids' toy guns have neon colors now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeOaTpYl8mE

People will blame Nintendo even though the kid probably would've done it if it didn't look like a Wii controller.

And what the hell is wrong with the father?

Small child+loaded gun= WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK?

This is hard to believe because of all of the ignorance by the parents. Its a hard reality to live with that small innocent children get punished for unfit parents. Tragic.

[QUOTE="MrGeezer"]

[QUOTE="Forever_Posting"]

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

theone86

I agree.

However, suppose she'd been walking down th street with that Wii controller in her hand. There's at least a decent chance that she'd get shot by police officers (particularly if she was black).

There's a reason why most kids' toy guns have neon colors now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeOaTpYl8mE

Have I ever mentioned before how much I love Michael Moore?

So no respawn points?JigglyWiggly_

[QUOTE="theone86"]

[QUOTE="MrGeezer"]

I agree.

However, suppose she'd been walking down th street with that Wii controller in her hand. There's at least a decent chance that she'd get shot by police officers (particularly if she was black).

There's a reason why most kids' toy guns have neon colors now.

MrGeezer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeOaTpYl8mE

Have I ever mentioned before how much I love Michael Moore?

Dear god that is horrible. The father is stupid for leaving his gun out.:|

The parents shouldn't of left a Wii laying around

The parents are absolute idiots, the father for leaving a fully loaded handgun on a easily reached place and the mother for not removing it.