Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Accidental Wii Suicide

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the guns-don't-kill-toddlers-do dept.

Paul Taylor noted a story that I would have thought to be an April Fool's Day joke a few weeks from now, which makes it only seem more tragic. A 3-year-old shot herself with a gun after mistaking it for a Wii controller.

2 of 1,343 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What a Tragedy and No Charges? by TheLink · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Lots of people seem to leave out the "well regulated militia" part of the Second Amendment.

    Being well regulated would make things rather inconvenient, even though it might actually help better in maintaining the security of a Free State.

    Types of Firearm deaths - 1993 :
    Type Number
    Suicide 18,940
    Firearm homicide 18,571
    Handgun homicide 13,980
    Justifiable homicide 251
    Accidental 1,521
    Undetermined 563
    Total 39,595

    I know there's the deterrent factor, but if someone knows you are carrying a gun, that someone might just kill you first, instead of holding you up and thus increase the "firearm/handgun homicide" stats.

    Anyway, it doesn't look very well regulated to me.

    Lastly, just because it's the Second Amendment doesn't make it infallible. Hey it's an _amendment_ after all, which in itself also proves that the Constitution isn't infallible either. If it's not serving the country well, amend it again. The US people should stop worshipping their Constitution (and their leaders should actually respect it more ;) ).

    --
  2. Re:Suicide? by Grimbleton · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Aw, that's cute, you think I'm one of those paranoid people.

    Tell me, what has Obama done differently than Bush?